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Bahrain visa requirements

Current entry categories for 199 passport nationalities, paired with official evidence as it is reviewed.

Access data checked August 24, 202613 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free5Visa on arrival67eVisa123Visa required3
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

5

Visa on arrival

67

eVisa

123

Visa required

3
Policy history

Official evidence timeline

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  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Bahrain: GCC citizens do not need an entry visa

    The Bahrain National Portal expressly exempts citizens of Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar from Bahrain’s entry-visa requirement.

    • Applies to citizenship of the five named GCC states, not merely residence in a GCC state.
    • The National Portal says other nationalities require an entry visa; this is not a visa-on-arrival, ETA, or eVisa.
    • NPRA separately offers electronic visas to GCC residents who meet its status and document conditions; that route does not alter the named GCC citizen exemption.
    • Same-flight or same-airport transit is separately visa-free under the Bahrain AIP and is outside this ordinary visitor classification.
    • Does not classify work, residence, family sponsorship, transit requiring entry, crew, diplomatic, official, service, UN, emergency, refugee, or other special-document entry.
    5 passport nationalities covered

    Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

    Official sourcesInformation & eGovernment Authority, Kingdom of Bahrain: Bahrain National Portal: VisasNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: NPRA: 3 Months Multiple-Entry Electronic Visa for GCC ResidentsBahrain Civil Aviation Affairs: Bahrain Aeronautical Information Publication: Entry, transit and departure
  2. Current official routeCitizenship

    Bahrain: citizenship treatment

    A Bahraini ordinary passport belongs to a Bahraini citizen and is not a foreign visitor-visa case.

    • Applies to Bahraini citizens holding a Bahraini ordinary passport.
    • Does not decide foreign residence, dual-national document choice, or foreign visitor treatment.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Bahrain

    Official sourceNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: NPRA: Passport Renewal
  3. Current official routeeVisa

    Bahrain: named online-eligible ordinary passports with eVisa route

    For these previously unsupported passport rows whose snapshot already records eVisa, NPRA's live country list names the country as online-eligible and its process page confirms an NPRA-reviewed online visa issuance workflow.

    • This policy is confined to ordinary-passport rows that were previously unsupported and already normalized as eVisa in the snapshot. The live online list names the corresponding countries, but says terms and conditions apply and directs a traveller to country-specific eligibility; it does not establish an unconditional exemption or a special-passport rule.
    • The portal describes a genuine pre-travel electronic-visa workflow: the traveller completes the online eligibility and application flow, uploads documents, pays, undergoes NPRA processing, and receives approval notification. It is not merely an arrival-registration form.
    • Passport validity, funds, accommodation, return/onward travel, sponsor, prior-document, residence, GCC-status, profession, purpose, fee, duration, entry-count, security, sanctions, and final-admission conditions remain traveller- and visa-type-specific. They were not exposed as a reproducible code-level crosswalk in this review.
    • The separately promoted GCC-citizenship exemption, Bahrain citizenship, GCC-resident eVisa, family, work, residence, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, UN, emergency, refugee, and other special-document routes are not classified by this policy. Border officers retain final admission authority.
    123 passport nationalities covered

    Barbados, Israel, The Bahamas, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Seychelles, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Grenada, Panama, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Solomon Islands, Serbia, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, El Salvador, Honduras, Tuvalu, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Kiribati, Micronesia, Palau Islands, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Belize, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Maldives, Fiji, Nauru, Vanuatu, Jamaica, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, Belarus, Indonesia, Lesotho, Namibia, Dominican Republic, eSwatini, Malawi, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, The Gambia, Rwanda, Armenia, Mongolia, Philippines, Zambia, Tunisia, Uganda, Cape Verde Islands, Benin, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Burkina Faso, India, Madagascar, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Togo, Tajikistan, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Guinea, Mauritania, Vietnam, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Algeria, Cameroon, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Angola, Jordan, Liberia, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Bhutan, Burundi, Haiti, Laos, Egypt, Djibouti, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Lebanon, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, Bangladesh, Palestinian Territory, Nepal, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Countries Eligible to Get Visa OnlineNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: The Process for Obtaining an Online VisaNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Frequently Asked Questions
  4. Current official routeVisa required

    Bahrain: Iran, North Korea, and Kosovo ordinary passports requiring advance visa

    Iran, North Korea, and Kosovo are not named in either live NPRA online or on-arrival country schedule. Bahrain's National Portal expressly gives the residual rule that a non-on-arrival country needs an entry visa issued in advance through an embassy, sponsor, or travel agency.

    • This is the National Portal's explicit advance-issuance residual for nationalities outside the on-arrival schedule, read with the current online and on-arrival country schedules. It is not inferred from a commercial passport index or from a failed application.
    • The cited schedules do not name these three catalog passport codes. The National Portal describes advance issuance through a Bahrain embassy in the country of residence, a Bahraini sponsor, or a travel agency; it does not establish a nationality-wide self-service eVisa route for them.
    • This policy does not decide any resident-, GCC-status-, third-country-document-, invitation-, work-, residence-, transit-, diplomatic-, official-, service-, refugee-, emergency-, or special-document exception. Visa issuance, security screening, sanctions, carrier checks, and final admission remain applicable.
    3 passport nationalities covered

    Iran, North Korea, Kosovo

    Official sourcesNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Countries Eligible to Get Visa OnlineNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Countries Eligible to Get Visa on-ArrivalInformation & eGovernment Authority, Kingdom of Bahrain: Bahrain National Portal: VisasNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Frequently Asked Questions
  5. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Bahrain: named ordinary passports eligible for visa on arrival

    The live NPRA Visa portal expressly names this exact residual cohort on its Countries Eligible to Get Visa on-Arrival list. The same nationalities also appear on the distinct online-visa list, but the available border-issued route controls this normalized visitor-access status.

    • Applies to a traveller holding the named nationality's own ordinary passport for a visitor entry; the FAQ requires each applicant to provide an individual passport.
    • The public NPRA Visa country lists separately label these nationalities as eligible online and eligible on arrival. This policy normalizes the directly available border-issued route as visa_on_arrival rather than treating optional online processing as the only route.
    • The arrival list says terms and conditions apply. The FAQ says a traveller must meet all conditions on arrival and entry remains at the Immigration Officer's discretion.
    • Visa type, duration, fees, extension, work, residence, study, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, emergency, refugee, stateless, and individual security/admissibility treatment remain outside this nationality-level visitor rule.
    67 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Finland, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, New Zealand, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada, United States, Czechia, Hungary, Malaysia, Poland, Slovakia, Iceland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Croatia, Monaco, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania, Chile, Andorra, Hong Kong (SAR China), Argentina, Brazil, San Marino, Brunei, Mexico, Uruguay, Vatican City, Ukraine, Paraguay, Peru, Macao (SAR China), Colombia, Georgia, Venezuela, Russian Federation, Türkiye, Ecuador, Guyana, China, Thailand, Bolivia, Suriname, Kazakhstan

    Official sourcesNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Countries Eligible to Get Visa on-ArrivalNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Countries Eligible to Get Visa OnlineNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Frequently Asked QuestionsNationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior: Bahrain eVisa: Process for obtaining an Online Visa