Visa requirements for Uruguayan citizens

Uruguayan 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, Uruguay and 82 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).

3 countries ask holders of the Uruguayan passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Uruguay without one: Australia, Canada and United States.

The reverse holds for 55 countries: holders of the Uruguayan passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Uruguay (Albania, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 50 others).

26 countries ask holders of the Uruguayan 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 Uruguay.

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

The United States refused 2.6% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Uruguay in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 5 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 191 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Uruguayan passport

By continent, the Uruguayan passport is visa-free in 45 countries in Europe, 28 countries in the Americas, 14 countries in Asia, 5 countries in Africa and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Uruguayan citizens are allowed in Armenia (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Mexico (180 days), Peru (180 days), El Salvador (180 days) and Fiji (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Uruguayan citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 26 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Uruguayan citizens enter Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and 28 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea and 2 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Uruguay’s neighbours

Brazil and Argentina admit Uruguayan citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Brazilian passport ranks 44th (150 destinations) and the Argentine passport ranks 45th (149 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 85 can enter visa-free and 113 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Uruguay.