Visa requirements for Eritrean citizens

Visa requirements for Eritrean citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Eritrea. In February 2016, Eritrean citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 37 countries and territories, ranking the Eritrean passport 98th in the world (tied with Ethiopia, Iran, Nepal, Palestinian Territory, Sudan) according to the Visa Restrictions Index.^[1]

Visa requirements map

Eritrea

Visa free access

Visa on arrival

Visa required

Visa requirements

Country	Visa requirement	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Afghanistan	Visa required^[2]
Albania	Visa required^[3]
Algeria	Visa required^[4]
Andorra	Visa required^[5]
Angola	Visa required^[6]
Antigua and Barbuda	Electronic Entry Visa^[7]
Argentina	Visa required^[8]
Armenia	Visa required^[9]
Australia	Online Visitor e600 visa^[10]	May apply online.^[11]
Austria	Visa required^[12]
Azerbaijan	Visa required^[13]
Bahamas	Visa required^[14]
Bahrain	Visa required^[15]
Bangladesh	Visa on arrival^[16]	30 days
Barbados	Visa required^[17]
Belarus	Visa required^[18]
Belgium	Visa required^[19]
Belize	Visa required^[20]
Benin	Visa required^[21]
Bhutan	Visa required^[22]
Bolivia	Visa on arrival^[23]	90 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa required^[24]
Botswana	Visa required^[25]
Brazil	Visa required^[26]
Brunei	Visa required^[27]
Bulgaria	Visa required^[28]
Burkina Faso	Visa on arrival^[29]
Burundi	Visa on arrival^[30]^[31]
Cambodia	Visa on arrival^[32]
Cameroon	Visa required^[33]
Canada	Visa required^[34]
Cape Verde	Visa on arrival^[35]
Central African Republic	Visa required^[36]
Chad	Visa required^[37]
Chile	Visa required^[38]
China	Visa required^[39]
Colombia	Visa required^[40]	May apply online.^[41]
Comoros	Visa on arrival^[42]
Republic of the Congo	Visa required^[43]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Visa required^[44]
Costa Rica	Visa required^[45]
Côte d'Ivoire	Visa required^[46]
Croatia	Visa required^[47]
Cuba	Tourist card required^[48]	Tourist card must be obtained in advance via travel agency, airline or at the embassy.
Cyprus	Visa required^[49]
Czech Republic	Visa required^[50]
Denmark	Visa required^[51]
Djibouti	Visa on arrival^[52]
Dominica	Visa not required^[53]	21 days
Dominican Republic	Visa required^[54]
Ecuador	Visa required^[55]
Egypt	Visa required^[56]
El Salvador	Visa required^[57]
Equatorial Guinea	Visa required^[58]
Estonia	Visa required^[59]
Ethiopia	Visa required^[60]
Fiji	Visa required^[61]
Finland	Visa required^[62]
France	Visa required^[63]
Gabon	eVisa^[64]
Gambia	Visa required^[65]
Georgia	eVisa^[66]
Germany	Visa required^[67]
Ghana	Visa on arrival^[68]	30 days
Greece	Visa required^[69]
Grenada	Visa required^[70]
Guatemala	Visa required^[71]
Guinea	Visa required^[72]
Guinea-Bissau	Visa on arrival^[73]	90 days
Guyana	Visa required^[74]
Haiti	Visa not required^[75]	3 months
Honduras	Visa required^[76]
Hungary	Visa required^[77]
Iceland	Visa required^[78]
India	e-Tourist Visa^[79]	30 days, eTV holders must arrive via 16 designated airports.^[80]
Indonesia	Visa required^[81]
Iran	Visa on arrival^[82]	30 days
Iraq	Visa required^[83]
Ireland	Visa required^[84]
Israel	Visa required^[85]
Italy	Visa required^[86]
Jamaica	Visa required^[87]
Japan	Visa required^[88]
Jordan	Visa required^[89]
Kazakhstan	Visa required^[90]
Kenya	Visa required^[91]
Kiribati	Visa required^[92]
North Korea	Visa required^[93]
South Korea	Visa required^[94]
Kuwait	Visa required^[95]
Kyrgyzstan	Visa required^[96]
Laos	Visa on arrival^[97]	30 days
Latvia	Visa required^[98]
Lebanon	Visa required^[99]	In addition to a visa, an approval should be obtained from the Immigration department of the General Directorate for General Secutiy (La Surete Generale).
Lesotho	Visa required^[100]
Liberia	Visa required^[101]
Libya	Visa required^[102]
Liechtenstein	Visa required^[103]
Lithuania	Visa required^[104]
Luxembourg	Visa required^[105]
Macedonia	Visa required^[106]
Madagascar	Visa on arrival^[107]	90 days
Malawi	Visa on arrival^[108]	30 days
Malaysia	Visa required^[109]
Maldives	Visa on arrival^[110]	30 days
Mali	Visa required^[111]
Malta	Visa required^[112]
Marshall Islands	Visa required^[113]
Mauritania	Visa on arrival^[114]	Available at Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport.
Mauritius	Visa on arrival^[115]	60 days
Mexico	Visa required^[116]
Micronesia	Visa not required^[117]	30 days
Moldova	Visa required^[118]
Monaco	Visa required^[119]
Mongolia	Visa required^[120]
Montenegro	Visa required^[121]
Morocco	Visa required^[122]
Mozambique	Visa on arrival^[123]	30 days
Myanmar	eVisa^[124]	28 days, eVisa holders must arrive via Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw or Mandalay airports
Namibia	Visa required^[125]
Nauru	Visa required^[126]
Nepal	Visa on arrival^[127]
Netherlands	Visa required^[128]
New Zealand	Visa required^[129]
Nicaragua	Visa on arrival^[130]	30 days
Niger	Visa required^[131]
Nigeria	Visa required^[132]
Norway	Visa required^[133]
Oman	Visa required^[134]
Pakistan	Visa required^[135]
Palau	Visa on arrival^[136]	30 days
Panama	Visa required^[137]
Papua New Guinea	Visa required^[138]
Paraguay	Visa required^[139]
Peru	Visa required^[140]
Philippines	Visa not required^[141]	30 days
Poland	Visa required^[142]
Portugal	Visa required^[143]
Qatar	Visa required^[144]
Romania	Visa required^[145]
Russia	Visa required^[146]
Rwanda	Visa on arrival^[147]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Visa required^[148]
Saint Lucia	Visa required^[149]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Visa not required^[150]	30 days
Samoa	Visa on arrival !Entry Permit on arrival^[151]	60 days
San Marino	Visa required^[152]
São Tomé and Príncipe	eVisa^[153]	Visa is obtained online.^[154]
Saudi Arabia	Visa required^[155]
Senegal	Visa required^[156]
Serbia	Visa required^[157]
Seychelles	Visa on arrival !Visitor's Permit on arrival^[158]	3 months
Sierra Leone	Visa required^[159]
Singapore	Visa not required^[160]	30 days
Slovakia	Visa required^[161]
Slovenia	Visa required^[162]
Solomon Islands	Visa required^[163]
Somalia	Visa required^[164]	Visa on arrival for 30 days, provided an invitation letter issued by the sponsor has been submitted to the Airport Immigration Department at least 2 days before arrival.
South Africa	Visa required^[165]
South Sudan	Visa on arrival^[166]
Spain	Visa required^[167]
Sri Lanka	Electronic Travel Authorization^[168]	30 days
Sudan	Visa on arrival^[169]	1 month; only if arriving directly from Eritrea.
Suriname	Visa required^[170]
Swaziland	Visa required^[171]
Sweden	Visa required^[172]
Switzerland	Visa required^[173]
Syria	Visa required^[174]
Tajikistan	Visa on arrival^[175]	45 days
Tanzania	Visa required^[176]
Thailand	Visa required^[177]
Timor-Leste	Visa on arrival^[178]	30 days
Togo	Visa on arrival^[179]	7 days
Tonga	Visa required^[180]
Trinidad and Tobago	Visa required^[181]
Tunisia	Visa required^[182]
Turkey	Visa required^[183]
Turkmenistan	Visa required^[184]
Tuvalu	Visa on arrival^[185]	1 month
Uganda	Visa not required^[186]
Ukraine	Visa required^[187]
United Arab Emirates	Visa required^[188]
United Kingdom	Visa required^[189]
United States	Visa required^[190]
Uruguay	Visa required^[191]
Uzbekistan	Visa required^[192]
Vanuatu	Visa required^[193]
Vatican City	Visa required^[194]
Venezuela	Visa required^[195]
Vietnam	Visa required^[196]
Yemen	Visa required^[197]
Zambia	Visa on arrival^[198]
Zimbabwe	Visa required^[199]

References

Passports

Africa

Central

CEMAC	Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of the Equatorial Guinea Gabon

Angola Congo, Democratic Republic of the São Tomé and Príncipe

Eastern

Northern

Southern

Western

Mauritania Saint Helena¹

ECOWAS	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean

Anguilla¹ British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominican Republic Montserrat¹ Turks and Caicos Islands¹

CARICOM	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Dominica Grenada Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Central

Costa Rica Panama

CARICOM	Belize

Central America-4	El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua

North

South

Chile

Andean	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Peru

CARICOM	Guyana Suriname

Mercosur	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan⁶ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	People's Republic of China Hong Kong¹¹ Macao¹¹ Japan Korea, North Korea, South Mongolia Republic of China (Taiwan)⁹

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

Southeast	Brunei Burma Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

West	Abkhazia⁵ ⁹ Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Bahrain Cyprus⁷ Egypt⁸ Georgia⁵ Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cyprus⁷ ⁹ Oman Palestinian Authority Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia⁵ ⁹ Syria Turkey⁴ United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

Other Europe

European Union

Oceania

Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Islands¹ Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

International organizations
Defunct passports
Passport types

International organizations	European Union laissez-passer International Committee of the Red Cross Interpol United Nations laissez-passer

Defunct	British Indian Empire¹ Czechoslovakia East Germany Korean Empire League of Nations refugee (Nansen) Mandatory Palestine Rhodesia Soviet Union¹² UNMIK Travel Document Yugoslavia

Types	Biometric Camouflage Diplomatic Fake Hajj Horse Internal International Machine-readable Pet Travel document alien refugee stateless person World

¹ A) Includes Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and former British plantations, crown colonies, colonies, protectorates, protected states, mandates, trust territories and other British possessions.
B) The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not part of the European Union, but Manxmen and Channel Islanders are citizens of the European Union; the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and Manxmen and Channel Islanders themselves (unless they qualify and apply for recognition of a change in status), are however excluded from the benefits of the Four Freedoms of the European Union.
C) The Government of the United Kingdom also issue passports to British nationals who are not British citizens with the right of abode in the United Kingdom and who are also not otherwise citizens of the European Union.

² Open border with Schengen Area.

³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.

⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Turkey has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.

⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.

⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Kazakhstan has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe.

⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe.

⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and Western Asia. Egypt has a small part of its territory in Western Asia called Sinai peninsula.

⁹ Partially recognized.

¹⁰ Not recognized by any other state.

¹¹ Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China

¹² The Soviet Union was a transcontinental country located in Eurasia

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Visa requirements

Africa

Central	Angolan Cameroonian Central African Republic Chadian DR Congo R Congo Equatorial Guinean Gabonese Santomean

Eastern	Burundian Comorian Djibouti Eritrean Ethiopian Kenyan Malagasy Malawian Mauritian Mozambican Rwandan Seychellois Somali South Sudanese Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian Zimbabwean

Northern	Algerian Egyptian⁸ Libyan Moroccan Sudanese Tunisian

Southern	Botswana Lesotho Namibian Saint Helena¹ South African Swazi

Western	Beninese Burkinabe Cape Verdean Gambian Ghanaian Guinean Guinea-Bissauan Ivorian Liberian Malian Mauritanian Nigerian Nigerien Senegalese Sierra Leonean Togolese

Americas

Caribbean	Anguillan¹ Antigua and Barbuda Bahamian Barbadian British Virgin Islands¹ Caymanian¹ Cuban Dominica Dominican Republic Grenadian Haitian Jamaican Montserratian¹ Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucian Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands¹

Central	Belizean Costa Rican El Salvador Guatemalan Honduran Nicaraguan Panamanian

North	Bermudian¹ Canadian Mexican United States

South	Argentine Bolivian Brazilian Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Guyanese Paraguayan Peruvian Surinamese Uruguayan Venezuelan

Asia

Central & North	Afghan Kazakhstani⁶ Kyrgyzstani Russian³ Tajik Turkmen Uzbekistani

East	Chinese Hong Konger Macanese Japanese North Korean South Korean Mongolian Taiwanese⁹

South	Bangladeshi Bhutanese Indian Maldivian Nepalese Pakistani Sri Lankan

Southeast	Bruneian Cambodian East Timorese Filipino Indonesian Laotian Malaysian Myanmar Singaporean Thai Vietnamese

Western	Abkhaz⁵ ⁹ Armenian⁷ Azerbaijani⁵ Bahraini Cypriot⁷ Egyptian⁸ Georgian⁵ Emirati Iranian Iraqi Israeli Jordanian Kuwaiti Lebanese Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cypriot⁷ ⁹ Omani Palestinian⁵ Qatari Saudi South Ossetian⁵ ⁹ Syrian Turkish⁴ Yemeni

Europe

European Union	Austrian Belgian British (BOTC · BN(O) · BOC) Bulgarian Croatian Cypriot⁷ Czech Danish Dutch Estonian (Non-citizens) Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Irish Italian Latvian (Non-citizens) Lithuanian Luxembourg Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish

Other Europe	Abkhaz⁵ ⁹ Albanian Andorran² Armenian⁷ Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Bosnian and Herzegovinian Georgian⁵ Gibraltar¹ Icelandic² Kazakhstani⁶ Kosovan⁹ Liechtenstein² Macedonia Moldovan Monégasque² Montenegrin Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cypriot⁷ ⁹ Norwegian² Russian³ San Marino² Serbian South Ossetian⁵ ⁹ Sovereign Military Order of Malta Swiss Transnistrian⁹ Turkish⁴ Ukrainian Vatican City²

Oceania

¹ British Overseas Territories. ² Open border with Schengen Area. ³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe. ⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. ⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and the Middle East. Has a small part of its territory in the Middle East called Sinai peninsula. ⁹ Partially recognized.

Immigration law

Visa policy by country

Africa

Central	Angola Cameroon Central African Republic Chad DR Congo R Congo Equatorial Guinea Gabon Sao Tome and Principe

Eastern	Burundi Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Rwanda Seychelles Somalia (Somaliland) South Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Northern	Algeria Egypt⁸ Libya Morocco Sudan Tunisia

Southern	Botswana Lesotho Namibia Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha¹ South Africa Swaziland

Western	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean	Dutch Caribbean (Aruba, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten) Anguilla¹ Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica Montserrat¹ Puerto Rico¹¹ St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands¹

Central	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama

North	Bermuda¹ Canada Mexico United States

South	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Falkland Islands¹ Guyana Paraguay Peru South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands¹ Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan⁶ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	China Hong Kong Macau Japan North Korea South Korea Mongolia Taiwan (Republic of China)¹⁰

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

Southeast	Brunei Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

Western	Abkhazia⁵¹⁰ Akrotiri and Dhekelia¹ ⁷ Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Bahrain Cyprus⁷ Egypt⁸ Georgia⁵ Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ¹⁰ Northern Cyprus⁷ ¹⁰ Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia⁵ Syria Turkey⁴ United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

European Union/EFTA	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Cyprus⁷ Denmark Estonia Finland France Overseas Germany Gibraltar¹ Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Svalbard¹² Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Overseas

Other Europe	Abkhazia⁵ ¹⁰ Akrotiri and Dhekelia¹ ⁷ Albania Andorra Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia⁵ Kazakhstan⁶ Kosovo¹⁰ Macedonia Moldova Monaco ² Montenegro Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ¹⁰ Northern Cyprus⁷ ¹⁰ Russia³ San Marino ² Serbia South Ossetia⁵ ¹⁰ Transnistria¹⁰ Turkey⁴ Ukraine Vatican City ²

Oceania

¹ British Overseas Territories. ² Open border with Schengen Area. ³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Has part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe. ⁷ Armenia and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus; Akrotiri and Dhekelia) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. ⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and the Middle East. Has part of its territory in the Middle East called Sinai peninsula. ⁹ Part of the Realm of New Zealand. ¹⁰ Partially recognized. ¹¹ Unincorporated territory of the United States. ¹² Part of Norway, not part of the Schengen Area, special open-border status under Svalbard Treaty

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References