Visa requirements for Tanzanian citizens

Tanzanian citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Tanzania and 61 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).

113 countries ask holders of the Tanzanian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Tanzania without one: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia and 108 others.

The reverse holds for 5 countries: holders of the Tanzanian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Tanzania (Bangladesh, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Sierra Leone and Somalia).

93 countries ask holders of the Tanzanian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 24 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Tanzania.

69 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Tanzania, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Tanzania, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Kenya (10), Ethiopia (4), Uganda (3) and South Sudan (2).

The United States refused 39% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Tanzania in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 120 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 76 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Tanzania refused 19% 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 35th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Tanzanian passport

By continent, the Tanzanian passport is visa-free in 20 countries in Africa, 11 countries in the Americas, 7 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Tanzanian citizens are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Kenya (180 days), Rwanda (180 days) and Fiji (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Tanzanian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau and 15 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Tanzanian citizens enter Albania, Australia, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 32 others. Ivory Coast, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Tanzania’s neighbours

Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Uganda and Malawi admit Tanzanian citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: DR Congo (visa on arrival for up to 7 days).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Malawian passport ranks 125th (68 destinations), the Kenyan passport ranks 127th (67 destinations), the Rwandan passport ranks 135th (63 destinations), the Zambian passport ranks 135th (63 destinations) and the Ugandan passport ranks 135th (63 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 51 can enter visa-free, 123 get a visa on arrival and 24 need an e-Visa for Tanzania.