Visa requirements for citizens of Vanuatu

Citizens of Vanuatu 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, Vanuatu and 50 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).

70 countries ask holders of the passport of Vanuatu for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Vanuatu without one: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan and 65 others.

The reverse holds for 30 countries: holders of the passport of Vanuatu get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Vanuatu (Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 25 others).

75 countries ask holders of the passport of Vanuatu for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 4 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Vanuatu.

71 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Vanuatu, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Vanuatu, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Australia (6).

The United States refused 47% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Vanuatu in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 134 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 62 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Vanuatu

By continent, the passport of Vanuatu is visa-free in 20 countries in the Americas, 13 countries in Africa, 5 countries in Europe, 5 countries in Asia and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Vanuatu 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 Vanuatu can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau and 24 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Vanuatu enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 36 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Suriname 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, 120 can enter visa-free and 78 need an e-Visa for Vanuatu.