Visa requirements for Serbian citizens

Serbian citizens can enter all 29 Schengen states without a visa, for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole area.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Serbia and 78 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

11 countries ask holders of the Serbian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Serbia without one: Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Canada, Ireland and 6 others.

The reverse holds for 42 countries: holders of the Serbian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Serbia (Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Comoros and 37 others).

38 countries ask holders of the Serbian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 9 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Serbia.

29 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Serbia, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Serbia, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Italy (7), Austria (4), Hungary (3) and Belgium (2).

The United States refused 15% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Serbia in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 54 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 142 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Serbia refused 5.7% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 62nd highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Serbian passport

By continent, the Serbian passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 20 countries in the Americas, 16 countries in Asia, 4 countries in Africa and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Serbian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Vanuatu (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Serbian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 24 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Serbian citizens enter Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana and 33 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya and South Korea ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Serbia’s neighbours

Albania, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Kosovo admit Serbian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Hungarian passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Croatian passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Romanian passport ranks 28th (159 destinations), the Bulgarian passport ranks 28th (159 destinations) and the North Macedonian passport ranks 74th (118 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 89 can enter visa-free and 109 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Serbia.