Visa requirements for citizens of the Solomon Islands

Citizens of the Solomon Islands 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 Solomon Islands and 65 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 passport of the Solomon Islands for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter the Solomon Islands without one: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Guyana and 6 others.

The reverse holds for 54 countries: holders of the passport of the Solomon Islands get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for the Solomon Islands (Angola, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burundi and 49 others).

34 countries ask holders of the passport of the Solomon Islands for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 3 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in the Solomon Islands.

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

The United States refused 7.8% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of the Solomon Islands in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 19 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 177 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of the Solomon Islands

By continent, the passport of the Solomon Islands is visa-free in 39 countries in Europe, 21 countries in the Americas, 13 countries in Africa, 7 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of the Solomon Islands are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), El Salvador (180 days) and Fiji (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of the Solomon Islands can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 21 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of the Solomon Islands enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 38 others. Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, 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, 31 can enter visa-free, 45 get a visa on arrival and 122 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for the Solomon Islands.