Visa requirements for citizens of Trinidad and Tobago

Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago 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, Trinidad and Tobago and 90 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).

15 countries ask holders of the passport of Trinidad and Tobago for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Trinidad and Tobago without one: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Cuba, India and 10 others.

The reverse holds for 37 countries: holders of the passport of Trinidad and Tobago get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Trinidad and Tobago (Andorra, Angola, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 32 others).

30 countries ask holders of the passport of Trinidad and Tobago for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 5 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Trinidad and Tobago.

25 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Trinidad and Tobago, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Trinidad and Tobago, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Venezuela (2).

The United States refused 15% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Trinidad and Tobago in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 53 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 143 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Trinidad and Tobago

By continent, the passport of Trinidad and Tobago is visa-free in 40 countries in Europe, 29 countries in the Americas, 16 countries in Africa, 8 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Trinidad and Tobago are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Guyana (180 days) and Mexico (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 19 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Trinidad and Tobago enter Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 34 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis and South Korea 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, 100 can enter visa-free, 5 get a visa on arrival and 93 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Trinidad and Tobago.