Visa requirements for Togolese citizens

Togolese 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, Togo and 15 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).

No country asks holders of the Togolese passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Togo without one.

The reverse holds for 40 countries: holders of the Togolese passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Togo (Bangladesh, Barbados, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad and 35 others).

97 countries ask holders of the Togolese passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 9 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Togo.

88 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Togo, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Togo, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Ghana (13), Nigeria (7) and Benin (3).

The United States refused 72% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Togo in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 187 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 9 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Togo refused 40% 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 12th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Togolese passport

By continent, the Togolese passport is visa-free in 20 countries in Africa, 5 countries in the Americas, 3 countries in Asia and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Togolese citizens are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), Ivory Coast (90 days), Ecuador (90 days), Ghana (90 days) and the Gambia (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Togolese citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iran and 18 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Togolese citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 39 others. Suriname asks instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Togo’s neighbours

Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso admit Togolese citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Ghanaian passport ranks 132nd (65 destinations), the Beninese passport ranks 141st (60 destinations) and the passport of Burkina Faso ranks 153rd (55 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 15 can enter visa-free and 183 need an e-Visa for Togo.