Visa requirements for citizens of the Seychelles

Citizens of the Seychelles 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, the Seychelles and 133 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).

64 countries ask holders of the passport of the Seychelles for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter the Seychelles without one: Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan and 59 others.

The reverse holds for 1 country: holders of the passport of the Seychelles get in without a visa obtained in advance, but its citizens need one for the Seychelles (Kosovo).

30 countries ask holders of the passport of the Seychelles for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 0 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in the Seychelles.

30 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in the Seychelles, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for the Seychelles, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Madagascar (2) and Mauritius (2).

The United States refused 13% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of the Seychelles in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 44 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 152 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of the Seychelles

By continent, the passport of the Seychelles is visa-free in 44 countries in Europe, 21 countries in Africa, 17 countries in the Americas, 13 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of the Seychelles are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Vanuatu (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of the Seychelles can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia and 23 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of the Seychelles enter Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 27 others. New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, Suriname and the United Kingdom ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

How the passport compares

Of the 198 passports in the data, 197 can enter visa-free and 1 is not admitted for the Seychelles.