Visa requirements for Singaporean citizens

Singaporean 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, Singapore and 145 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).

19 countries ask holders of the Singaporean passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Singapore without one: Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cameroon, Central African Republic and 14 others.

The reverse holds for 18 countries: holders of the Singaporean passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Singapore (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Egypt and 13 others).

13 countries ask holders of the Singaporean passport 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 Singapore.

13 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Singapore, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Singapore, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Indonesia (3) and Malaysia (3).

The United States refused 19% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Singapore in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 62 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 134 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Singapore refused 5.1% 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 67th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Singaporean passport

By continent, the Singaporean passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 29 countries in the Americas, 26 countries in Asia, 26 countries in Africa and 5 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Singaporean citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days) and Dominica (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Singaporean citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, the Comoros, Egypt, Ethiopia and 20 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Singaporean citizens enter Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea and 15 others. Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, the United Kingdom and the United States 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, 164 can enter visa-free and 34 need an e-Visa for Singapore.