Visa requirements for citizens of Tuvalu

Citizens of Tuvalu 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, Tuvalu and 114 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).

84 countries ask holders of the passport of Tuvalu for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Tuvalu without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia and 79 others.

38 countries ask holders of the passport of Tuvalu for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 0 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Tuvalu.

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

The United States refused 4.6% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Tuvalu in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 8 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 188 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Tuvalu

By continent, the passport of Tuvalu is visa-free in 40 countries in Europe, 20 countries in the Americas, 12 countries in Africa, 7 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Tuvalu are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), El Salvador (180 days) and Fiji (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Tuvalu 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 Tuvalu enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 39 others. 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, 31 can enter visa-free and 167 get a visa on arrival for Tuvalu.