Visa requirements for Venezuelan citizens

Venezuelan 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, Venezuela and 61 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).

13 countries ask holders of the Venezuelan passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Venezuela without one: Australia, Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ireland and 8 others.

The reverse holds for 48 countries: holders of the Venezuelan passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Venezuela (Albania, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina and 43 others).

48 countries ask holders of the Venezuelan passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 11 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Venezuela.

37 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Venezuela, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Venezuela, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Colombia (3).

The United States refused 48% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Venezuela in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 138 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 58 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Venezuelan passport

By continent, the Venezuelan passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 14 countries in the Americas, 7 countries in Asia, 3 countries in Africa and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Venezuelan citizens are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Andorra (90 days), Albania (90 days) and Argentina (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Venezuelan citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 29 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Venezuelan citizens enter Armenia, Australia, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and 34 others. Ivory Coast, Kenya, Saint Kitts and Nevis and South Korea ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Venezuela’s neighbours

Brazil and Colombia admit Venezuelan citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Guyana (e-Visa).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Brazilian passport ranks 44th (150 destinations), the Colombian passport ranks 74th (118 destinations) and the Guyanese passport ranks 105th (83 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 74 can enter visa-free and 124 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Venezuela.