Visa requirements for Taiwanese citizens

Taiwanese 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, Taiwan and 71 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).

3 countries ask holders of the Taiwanese passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Taiwan without one: Myanmar, Turkey and Vietnam.

The reverse holds for 42 countries: holders of the Taiwanese passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Taiwan (Antigua and Barbuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cape Verde, China and 37 others).

38 countries ask holders of the Taiwanese 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 Taiwan.

38 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Taiwan, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Taiwan, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in China (9), South Korea (9), Vietnam (3) and the Philippines (3).

The United States refused 9.5% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Taiwan in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 29 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 167 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Taiwanese passport

By continent, the Taiwanese passport is visa-free in 40 countries in Europe, 15 countries in the Americas, 11 countries in Asia, 6 countries in Oceania and 2 countries in Africa. The longest visa-free stays for Taiwanese citizens are allowed in Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days), Andorra (90 days) and Albania (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Taiwanese citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Taiwanese citizens enter Armenia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana and 37 others. Australia, Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and 4 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Taiwanese citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Taiwanese citizens are currently not admitted to Cuba, Georgia and Moldova.

How the passport compares

Of the 198 passports in the data, 67 can enter visa-free, 3 get a visa on arrival, 4 need an ETA, 17 need an e-Visa and 107 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Taiwan.