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

Access data checked August 24, 202612 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free104Visa on arrival1eVisa3Visa required90
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

104

Visa on arrival

1

eVisa

3

Visa required

90
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  1. Current official routeCitizenship

    Belarusian ordinary passport: citizen entry

    A person travelling on a Belarusian ordinary passport is classified as a Belarusian citizen, not under the foreign-visitor visa regime.

    • The Constitution gives Belarusian citizens a right to return without hindrance. This citizenship classification does not determine treatment where a dual national presents another passport.
    • It does not establish foreign-passport, residence, work, transit or final border-control treatment.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Belarus

    Official sourceNational Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus: Constitution of the Republic of Belarus
  2. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named ordinary passports: bilateral visitor visa-free baseline

    The MFA's current bilateral table expressly names these ordinary passport holders as visa-free, with the stated country-specific duration limits.

    • The MFA table gives the particular limits: Albania 30 days per entry and 90 per year; Argentina 90 per year; Brazil, Colombia, Mongolia, Qatar, UAE and Venezuela 90 days; Cuba, Laos, Montenegro, Myanmar, Oman, Serbia, Türkiye and Vietnam 30 days; Israel 90 in 180 days.
    • China is 30 days per entry and 90 days in a calendar year. Hong Kong and Macao are limited to their respective SAR passports as stated in the MFA table; this must not be generalized to other Chinese documents.
    • The source does not give one pooled duration for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine or Uzbekistan; this candidate does not import durations from secondary materials.
    • Work, study, residence, transit, diplomatic, service, special, emergency and other-document rules are not established by this ordinary-passport visitor policy. Final admission and entry-document checks remain applicable.
    31 passport nationalities covered

    Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, North Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Myanmar, Oman, China, Hong Kong (SAR China), Macao (SAR China), Qatar, Russian Federation, Serbia, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam

    Official sourceMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Visa-free travel (general information)
  3. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named European ordinary passports: temporary visa-free entry through 31 December 2026

    The State Border Committee's current temporary programme waives visas for these named ordinary passports; this policy excludes North Macedonia because its bilateral MFA waiver already establishes its baseline.

    • Lithuanian and Latvian ordinary passport holders have the programme from 15 April 2022 and Poland from 1 July 2022: up to 90 days per visit and 90 days in a calendar year.
    • The remaining named passports have the programme from 19 July 2024: up to 30 days per entry and 90 days in a calendar year.
    • Entry and exit may use any Belarus international border checkpoint. Work, study or residence requires the appropriate Belarusian visa; transit to a third country is permitted except via Russia.
    • A valid document, medical insurance, stay funds, migration-card and final border-admission requirements continue to apply; diplomatic, service and special passports are outside this ordinary-passport policy.
    37 passport nationalities covered

    Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Austria, Andorra, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vatican City, United Kingdom, Hungary, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Germany, Croatia, Czechia, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia

    Official sourceState Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus: Visa-free travel for citizens of certain European countries
  4. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named ordinary passports: airport-route visa-free entry up to 30 days

    The MFA's current 76-country airport programme provides a route-limited, ordinary-passport visa-free visitor option for this non-overlapping subset; it is not a general land-border waiver.

    • Entry and exit are only through Minsk National Airport, Airport Brest, Airport Gomel, Airport Grodno, Airport Mogilev or Airport Vitebsk. Arrival from, or planned flight to, Russia is excluded.
    • Stay is at most 30 calendar days and cannot be extended. The traveller needs an ordinary passport valid 90 days after departure, funds and Belarus-valid EUR 10,000 medical insurance.
    • For the airport programme, Egypt, Gambia, Haiti, India, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Namibia, Pakistan, Samoa, South Africa and Vietnam require a used multiple-entry EU/Schengen visa and an air ticket confirming departure from one of the stated Belarus airports within 30 days. Vietnam's separate bilateral waiver is prioritized in the preceding policy.
    • Diplomatic, service, special and equivalent passports are excluded. Registration and final border-admission checks continue to apply.
    36 passport nationalities covered

    Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, Dominica, Egypt, Micronesia, The Gambia, Haiti, Indonesia, India, Iran, Japan, Jordan, South Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mexico, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, El Salvador, Uruguay, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Vanuatu, Samoa, South Africa

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Information on visa-free travel via the airports of the Republic of BelarusMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: List of countries eligible for airport visa-free travel
  5. Current official routeeVisa

    Named ordinary passports: electronic visitor visa issued before travel

    The official E-Pasluga eligibility list and MFA guidance establish a genuine pre-travel electronic visa for these named ordinary passports after all visa-free priority routes are removed.

    • This is a single-entry individual electronic visa, issued for no more than 30 days, for business, specified events, private affairs or tourism. It is not merely an online filing system: the official service sends a PDF visa or a refusal decision.
    • Apply through E-Pasluga service 3.04.01 at least seven calendar days before entry, then print and carry the electronic visa. It is valid through all international Belarus checkpoints.
    • It does not establish work, study, residence, airport transit, diplomatic, service, special, emergency, refugee or other-document treatment. Entry from Russia on Belarus e-visas remains technically barred according to the MFA.
    • The all-nationality Brest-Grodno 15-day tourist-zone route and the Belarus-Russia visa/residence-document agreement are separate document- and route-conditioned alternatives; they do not change this nationality baseline.
    3 passport nationalities covered

    Bolivia, Paraguay, United States

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: E-visa to BelarusNational Centre of E-Services of the Republic of Belarus: E-visa issuance, service 3.04.01, and list of eligible statesMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Visa-free travel to Brest-GrodnoMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Belarusian-Russian Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Visas
  6. Current official routeVisa required

    Named ordinary passports: advance visitor visa required baseline

    Belarus's MFA explicitly requires a visa unless a treaty or Presidential decision provides otherwise. After the current official bilateral, temporary-European, airport and exact e-visa exception lists are applied, this is the ordinary-passport short-visitor complement.

    • This is a short-visitor ordinary-passport baseline, established by the MFA's express visa-unless-exception rule and the closed nationality scopes of the current official exception lists; it is not inferred merely from an online portal omission.
    • The all-nationality Brest-Grodno programme is a separate up-to-15-day tourist-zone route that requires an advance Belarusian travel-agency document, booked tourist service and insurance; it does not create a general passport-wide visa-free baseline.
    • A valid Belarus or Russian visa may be mutually recognized under the Union State Agreement when paired with a document recognized by both states. A Belarus or Russian residence permit or qualifying event document also has a separate document-conditioned no-visa route; e-visas cannot be used to enter Belarus from Russia.
    • Minsk airport can issue a visa only after advance visa-support processing (normally at least two business days), so it is not normalized as an unconditioned visa-on-arrival entitlement.
    • This policy establishes no work, study, residence, transit, diplomatic, service, special, emergency, refugee or other-document result. Visa issuance, sanctions/restrictions, health, security, document and final border-admission checks remain applicable.
    89 passport nationalities covered

    Brunei, The Bahamas, St. Kitts and Nevis, Mauritius, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Solomon Islands, Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Honduras, Kiribati, Palau Islands, Belize, Timor-Leste, Maldives, Fiji, Nauru, Guyana, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Thailand, Suriname, Lesotho, Dominican Republic, eSwatini, Malawi, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Rwanda, Philippines, Zambia, Tunisia, Uganda, Cape Verde Islands, Benin, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, São Tomé and Príncipe, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Togo, Tajikistan, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Guinea, Mauritania, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Algeria, Cameroon, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Angola, Liberia, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Bhutan, Burundi, Djibouti, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, North Korea, Bangladesh, Palestinian Territory, Nepal, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Procedure for obtaining visas to enter the Republic of BelarusMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Visa-free travel (general information)State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus: Visa-free travel for citizens of certain European countriesMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Information on visa-free travel via the airports of the Republic of BelarusMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: List of countries eligible for airport visa-free travelNational Centre of E-Services of the Republic of Belarus: E-visa issuance, service 3.04.01, and list of eligible statesMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Visa-free travel to Brest-GrodnoMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus: Belarusian-Russian Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Visas
  7. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Taiwan ordinary passports: named visa-on-arrival short visits

    Taiwan MOFA BOCA's current outbound schedule identifies these destinations as issuing visas at arrival to Taiwanese travellers, including stated pre-clearance routes.

    • BY, IR and UZ require the schedule's stated pre-clearance before a visa is issued on arrival; online pre-clearance followed by border issuance is normalized as visa_on_arrival.
    • CI requires online registration, fee payment and an emailed approval code before the visa is issued at Abidjan airport; it is therefore arrival issuance, not an eVisa under this taxonomy.
    • LR: apply online, then present the approval QR code at Roberts International Airport for biometric collection and the visa sticker. The Liberia Immigration Service directs applicants in a country with a Liberian embassy to that mission instead.
    • This does not establish work, residence, non-visitor, transit-only, special-document, carrier, health, funds or final-admission treatment.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)

    Official sourcesBureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan): Taiwan MOFA BOCA: destinations available visa-free, visa on arrival, or by eVisaLiberia Immigration Service: Liberia Immigration Service: Visa on Arrival