Visa requirements for Tongan citizens

Tongan 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, Tonga and 58 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).

11 countries ask holders of the Tongan passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Tonga without one: Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Japan and 6 others.

The reverse holds for 54 countries: holders of the Tongan passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Tonga (Andorra, Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina and 49 others).

42 countries ask holders of the Tongan passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 2 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Tonga.

40 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Tonga, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country.

The United States refused 47% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Tonga in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 135 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 61 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Tongan passport

By continent, the Tongan passport is visa-free in 39 countries in Europe, 16 countries in the Americas, 14 countries in Africa, 8 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Tongan citizens are allowed in Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days) and Andorra (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Tongan citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau and 20 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Tongan citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan and 37 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname 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, 32 can enter visa-free, 37 get a visa on arrival and 129 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Tonga.