Visa requirements for citizens of Timor-Leste

Citizens of Timor-Leste 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, Timor-Leste and 85 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 passport of Timor-Leste for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Timor-Leste without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina and 108 others.

61 countries ask holders of the passport of Timor-Leste for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 7 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Timor-Leste.

54 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Timor-Leste, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Timor-Leste, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Indonesia (5) and Brunei (3).

The United States refused 20% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Timor-Leste in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 68 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 128 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Timor-Leste

By continent, the passport of Timor-Leste is visa-free in 38 countries in Europe, 6 countries in Asia, 5 countries in the Americas, 4 countries in Africa and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Timor-Leste are allowed in Andorra (90 days), Austria (90 days), Bosnia and Herzegovina (90 days), Belgium (90 days), Bulgaria (90 days) and Switzerland (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Timor-Leste 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 Timor-Leste enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin and 45 others. Ivory Coast, Kenya and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Timor-Leste’s neighbours

Indonesia admits citizens of Timor-Leste without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Indonesian passport ranks 113th (78 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 35 can enter visa-free and 163 get a visa on arrival for Timor-Leste.