Visa requirements for citizens of St Lucia

Citizens of St Lucia 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, St Lucia and 105 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).

38 countries ask holders of the passport of St Lucia for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter St Lucia without one: Australia, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brunei and 33 others.

The reverse holds for 20 countries: holders of the passport of St Lucia get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for St Lucia (Angola, Bangladesh, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Egypt and 15 others).

33 countries ask holders of the passport of St Lucia for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 1 of them has an embassy or consulate on record in St Lucia.

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

The United States refused 37% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of St Lucia in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 111 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 85 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of St Lucia

By continent, the passport of St Lucia is visa-free in 39 countries in Europe, 28 countries in the Americas, 14 countries in Africa, 8 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of St Lucia are allowed in Barbados (180 days), Peru (180 days), Suriname (180 days), El Salvador (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Vanuatu (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of St Lucia 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 St Lucia enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 33 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, South Korea 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, 95 can enter visa-free, 48 get a visa on arrival and 55 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for St Lucia.