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Ecuador visa requirements

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

Access data checked August 24, 20268 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free152eVisa46
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

152

eVisa

46
Policy history

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  1. eVisa

    Named ordinary passports: transitory visitor eVisa required before travel

    Effective 1 September 2025, Ecuador's foreign ministry expressly requires the named nationalities to obtain the electronically issued Visa de Visitante Temporal de Transeúnte before entering Ecuador.

    • The announcement calls this authorization a Visa de Visitante Temporal de Transeúnte under the 2025 reform to Article 66 of the Organic Law on Human Mobility. It must be requested while the applicant is outside Ecuador through the ministry's official digital service.
    • The Foreign Ministry describes the eVISAS service as electronic visas processed 100% online. Its current guide says the approved electronic visa is sent by email for the traveller to download and present, so this is normalized as eVisa rather than a non-electronic advance visa, ETA, or visa on arrival.
    • The foreign ministry's visitor regulation separately provides that a tourist may not perform work or economic activity. Passport validity, visa validity, purpose, route, residence, transit, diplomatic or official document, security, prior immigration history, and border-admission requirements remain separate and are not established by this nationality rule.
    45 passport nationalities covered

    Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Philippines, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, India, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Nepal, Congo (Dem. Rep.), North Korea, Senegal, Syria, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Haiti, Congo (Rep.), Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Albania, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan, China

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: Ecuador will require a transitory visitor visa from 1 September 2025Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: eVISAS Portal user guideMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: eVISAS portal: electronic visas for EcuadorMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: Regulation to the Organic Law on Human Mobility
  2. Current official routeCitizenship

    Ecuadorian nationals: outside foreign visitor-visa scope

    The Human Mobility Regulation's tourist-entry rules govern foreign persons, not Ecuadorian nationals presenting an Ecuadorian passport.

    • This classification does not establish entry treatment for dual nationals presenting another passport, residence, migration-registration, departure, document-validity, or individual-admissibility requirements.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Ecuador

    Official sourceMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: Regulation to the Organic Law on Human Mobility
  3. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named South American ordinary passports: visitor entry up to 180 days

    The current exhaustive required-visa list does not include these named South American nationalities, and the Human Mobility Regulation allows South American tourists up to 180 days in a year.

    • The 180-day figure is the maximum that migration control may grant to a South American tourist in one year; it is not a guaranteed stay or an authorization for employment or economic activity.
    • The classification rests on the Foreign Ministry's explicit current list of all nationalities for which Ecuador requires a visa, read with the visitor-stay rule. It does not establish national-identity-card use, residence, work, transit, diplomatic, official, emergency, refugee, or other special-document treatment.
    • Entry remains subject to presenting an identity-verifying travel document, migration-control verification of the invoked status, security and admissibility requirements, and any current health or carrier requirements.
    10 passport nationalities covered

    Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: Ecuador will require a transitory visitor visa from 1 September 2025Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: Regulation to the Organic Law on Human Mobility
  4. Current official routeVisa-free

    Other expressly unlisted ordinary foreign passports: visitor exemption up to 90 days

    Ecuador's foreign ministry expressly identifies the complete current nationality list for which a visa is required; the other named foreign ordinary-passport codes are therefore visitor-exempt for the regulation's normal maximum of 90 days in one year.

    • This complement is inferred only from the ministry's explicit current statement that the listed countries are those whose nationals are required to hold a visa. The current source does not state a nationality-wide eVisa, ETA, arrival-visa, or electronic travel-authorization route for this complement.
    • A foreign tourist may remain for a maximum of 90 days from the first entry in a year and may apply once for an extension of up to 90 further days under the regulation. This normal 90-day rule does not replace the distinct South American maximum.
    • The traveller must present a travel document verifying identity and satisfy the migration-control officer that the claimed immigration status applies. No work or economic activity is authorized by tourist entry.
    • This is limited to ordinary foreign passports. It does not establish diplomatic, official, service, emergency, refugee, stateless, laissez-passer, residence, employment, transit, special-purpose, or individual security/admissibility treatment.
    140 passport nationalities covered

    Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbados, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Brunei, The Bahamas, Bhutan, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Canada, Central African Republic, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Cape Verde Islands, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Djibouti, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Fiji, Micronesia, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, Grenada, Georgia, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Croatia, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoro Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, St. Lucia, Liechtenstein, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Morocco, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, North Macedonia, Mongolia, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nicaragua, Netherlands, Norway, Nauru, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Palestinian Territory, Portugal, Palau Islands, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sweden, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, El Salvador, eSwatini, Togo, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Türkiye, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Tanzania, Ukraine, Uganda, United States, Vatican City, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kosovo, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: Ecuador will require a transitory visitor visa from 1 September 2025Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: Regulation to the Organic Law on Human MobilityMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility: eVISAS Portal user guide
  5. Current official routeeVisa

    Taiwan ordinary passports: named electronic visitor visas

    Taiwan MOFA BOCA's current outbound schedule identifies these destinations' electronic-visa routes for Taiwanese passport holders; Ecuador separately confirms pre-departure electronic issuance.

    • EC requires Taiwanese travellers to complete the online electronic-visa application before travel after Ecuador ended the previous visa-free treatment.
    • SY and TR are listed by BOCA for ordinary ROC passports with the stated visitor-purpose electronic-visa routes; each destination's current duration, purpose, documentation and border rules remain controlling.
    • This records electronic issuance, not merely online filing. It excludes work, residence, transit-only facilities, special documents, carrier checks and final-admission decisions.
    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 eVisaBureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan): Taiwan MOFA BOCA: Ecuador travel warning and entry requirement
  6. Current official routeVisa-free

    Ecuador: HKSAR ordinary passports visa-free short visits

    Ecuador's reciprocal Visa Abolition Agreement expressly gives HKSAR passport holders visa-free visits up to 90 days; the live HKSAR Immigration Department list continues to show Ecuador with a 90-day stay.

    • Applies to HKSAR passport holders visiting Ecuador for up to 90 days under the reciprocal Visa Abolition Agreement.
    • The 1999 agreement took effect on 3 October 1999; the current HKSAR Immigration Department Ecuador entry still displays a 90-day stay.
    • Employment, residence, study, non-HKSAR travel documents, passport validity, health, security and final border-admission requirements remain outside this short-visitor policy.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Hong Kong (SAR China)

    Official sourcesGovernment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Visa-free arrangement for HKSAR passport holdersImmigration Department, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Visa-free access or visa-on-arrival for HKSAR Passport