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Gabon visa requirements

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

Access data checked August 24, 202635 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free8Visa on arrival189eVisa1
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

8

Visa on arrival

189

eVisa

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Policy history

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  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Foreign CEMAC ordinary passports: Gabon visa-free short-visitor entry

    Current CEMAC sources identify Gabon and five other Member States and state that Member-State citizens’ visa-free free movement is effective. The Convention describes the tourist free-movement stay and document conditions. This policy maps only the five foreign CEMAC ordinary-passport codes; it does not use a legacy Foreign Ministry register or the eVisa portal to infer other exemptions.

    • Applies only to citizens holding ordinary passports of the five other current CEMAC Member States: Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic and Chad.
    • For tourism, the published Convention describes up to three months and requires the community traveller to produce a valid or recently expired national identity card or passport and an international health booklet. The current Commission account confirms visa-free movement but does not independently restate the duration; verify the Convention’s continuing implementation before relying on that limit.
    • Entry remains subject to applicable border, health, public-order, security and individual-admissibility controls. It does not establish work, residence, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee or special-document treatment.
    • The current Gabon Government eVisa notice is limited to air entry at Libreville; it does not change this visa-free CEMAC policy.
    5 passport nationalities covered

    Cameroon, Congo (Rep.), Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Chad

    Official sourcesEconomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa: CEMAC: Member StatesEconomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa: CEMAC Commission President interview on free movementEconomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa: Common Convention on free movement and right of establishmentOfficial Government Portal of the Gabonese Republic: Official Government Portal: Gabon eVisa service
  2. Current official routeVisa required

    Full British citizen passport: Gabon advance visa

    FCDO says a full British citizen passport holder must apply for a Gabon visa before travelling.

    • The page applies to a full British citizen passport from the UK and explicitly requires application before travel.
    • Business invitation, tourist accommodation, yellow-fever, document and final-admission conditions remain separate.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    United Kingdom

    Official sourceForeign, Commonwealth & Development Office: FCDO Gabon entry requirements
  3. Current official routeeVisa

    German ordinary passports: named electronic visitor-visa routes

    Official guidance identifies an electronic visa issued before travel for the listed German ordinary-passport visitor routes.

    • IQ: federal Iraq ended visa-on-arrival issuance on 1 March 2025 and requires an e-visa before entry; Kurdistan has a distinct e-visa process. CU: the Cuban official tourism portal describes the internet tourist visa replacing the tourist card. GA: the temporary e-visa procedure is only for tourists. GQ: for air entry, an online e-visa is required; land entry requires mission processing. NG: since May 2025 only electronic visas are used, delivered with a QR code by email. TD: the entry visa must be applied for online at least seven days before travel.
    • This excludes separate non-tourist visa categories, route-specific limits, health forms, registration and final admission.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Germany

    Official sourcesAuswärtiges Amt: Auswärtiges Amt: Iraq travel and security adviceCuban Ministry of Tourism: Cuba Travel: regulations and formalitiesAuswärtiges Amt: Auswärtiges Amt: Gabon travel and security adviceAuswärtiges Amt: Auswärtiges Amt: Equatorial Guinea travel and security adviceAuswärtiges Amt: Auswärtiges Amt: Nigeria travel and security adviceAuswärtiges Amt: Auswärtiges Amt: Chad travel and security advice
  4. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    French ordinary passports: named visitor visas issued at arrival

    Official guidance identifies a border-issued visitor visa route for each listed French ordinary-passport destination.

    • DJ: a one-month visa can be obtained at entry, though France Diplomatie also lists a short-stay e-visa route. KM: visa at Moroni airport. TM: airport or port issuance requires the national migration service invitation. GA: obtain the DGDI travel-authorisation receipt before flying to Libreville Léon-Mba airport; the visa sticker and payment occur on arrival. CI: online registration and payment precede visa issuance at Abidjan airport. BD: eligible travellers apply online before departure and receive the visa at arrival for up to 30 days. KH: tourist visas are available directly at all international air, land, sea and river borders.
    • GA, TM, CI and BD are visa_on_arrival because the visa itself is issued at the border after an online or pre-authorisation step. This excludes final admission and route-specific exclusions.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    France

    Official sourcesMinistère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères: France Diplomatie: Djibouti entry and stayMinistère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères: France Diplomatie: Comoros entry and stayMinistère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères: France Diplomatie: Turkmenistan entry and stayDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration: Gabon DGDI: e-Visa platformMinistère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères: France Diplomatie: Côte d’Ivoire entry and stayMinistère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères: France Diplomatie: Bangladesh entry and stayMinistère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères: France Diplomatie: Cambodia entry and stay
  5. Current official routeeVisa

    Dutch ordinary passports: expressly electronic visitor visas

    Official Dutch guidance explicitly identifies an electronic visa route for the listed ordinary Dutch-passport visitors.

    • LY: the official Libyan eVisa introduced in July 2026 is stated as valid for 30 days. IQ, CU and GA: Dutch guidance directs ordinary Dutch-passport holders to named government eVisa systems. NG: the guidance expressly identifies Nigeria Immigration Service's eVisa route as an alternative to embassy processing.
    • IQ Kurdistan-region procedures and Erbil airport issuance are distinct from the federal-Iraq eVisa baseline. Route-specific purpose, passport, preapproval, document, health, carrier and final-admission conditions remain applicable.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Netherlands

    Official sourcesNetherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs: NetherlandsWorldwide: Libya travel adviceNetherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs: NetherlandsWorldwide: Iraq travel adviceNetherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs: NetherlandsWorldwide: Cuba travel adviceNetherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs: NetherlandsWorldwide: Gabon travel adviceNetherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs: NetherlandsWorldwide: Nigeria travel advice
  6. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Macao SAR passports: Gabon electronic preapproval and arrival visa

    Macao DSI lists Gabon in its e-visa field for the Macao SAR Passport, but Gabon's DGDI says the prior electronic travel authorization is followed by delivery of the visa sticker on arrival.

    • Obtain the DGDI Travel Authorization Receipt before departure; the destination portal warns against travelling before receiving it.
    • The e-visa sticker is delivered and paid for on arrival at Libreville Leon Mba International Airport. This is not a generally border-available visa without the prior authorization.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Macao (SAR China)

    Official sourcesIdentification Services Bureau, Macao SAR Government: Macao SAR Government / DSI: Macao SAR Passport eligibilityIdentification Services Bureau, Macao SAR Government: Macao DSI: Gabon e-visa-labelled recordDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l'Immigration, Gabon: Gabon DGDI e-Visa: electronic authorization and arrival sticker
  7. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Moldovan ordinary passports: named arrival visitor visas

    Moldova MFA records visas on arrival for Comoros and Liberia; the Côte d'Ivoire and Gabon destination portals establish that their online preapproval routes end in issuance at the airport.

    • For Liberia, Moldova MFA states that the online form and printed confirmation are mandatory before the visa-on-arrival step. For Comoros, it records visa on arrival.
    • For Côte d'Ivoire, board with approved pre-enrolment and complete biometrics at Abidjan, where the visa is printed and issued. For Gabon, obtain a DGDI Travel Authorization Receipt before travel; the sticker is delivered and paid for on arrival at Libreville airport.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Moldova

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova: Moldova MFA: visa regime for citizens of the Republic of MoldovaSNEDAI, official Côte d'Ivoire visa service: Côte d'Ivoire official SNEDAI: e-visa procedureDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l'Immigration, Gabon: Gabon DGDI e-Visa: electronic authorization and arrival sticker
  8. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Zambian ordinary passports: Gabon electronic preapproval and arrival visa

    Gabon's DGDI requires electronic travel authorization before travel but delivers and takes payment for the visa sticker on arrival.

    • Obtain the DGDI Travel Authorization Receipt before departure; the destination portal warns against travelling before receiving it.
    • The e-visa sticker is delivered and paid for on arrival at Libreville Leon Mba International Airport. This is not a generally border-available visa without prior authorization.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Zambia

    Official sourcesMinistry of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Zambia: Zambia Ministry of Home Affairs: passportsDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l'Immigration, Gabon: Gabon DGDI e-Visa: electronic authorization and arrival sticker
  9. Current official routeVisa-free

    Moroccan, Mauritian and South African ordinary passports: visa-free Gabon entry

    The authenticated live DGDI exemption dataset explicitly lists Morocco, Mauritius and South Africa for ordinary, diplomatic and service passports. These are the three exact ordinary-passport exemption codes in this residual cohort.

    • The DGDI exemption table expressly gives each of Morocco, Mauritius and South Africa the passport types 'Ordinary Passport, Diplomatic Passport, Service Passport'. This policy is confined to ordinary passport holders and does not derive a waiver from reciprocal treatment or a diplomatic/service-only agreement.
    • The service describes bilateral-agreement exemptions. Applicable admissibility, passport-validity, health, border, purpose, residence, work, transit, crew, and special-document rules remain separate.
    • CEMAC ordinary-passport exemptions and Gabon citizenship are outside this exact residual queue and are not duplicated here.
    3 passport nationalities covered

    Morocco, Mauritius, South Africa

    Official sourcesDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration: DGDI Gabon eVisa: application, exemption list and arrival deliveryDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration: DGDI Gabon eVisa: live country and passport-exemption catalog
  10. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Other verified residual ordinary passports: electronic preapproval followed by Gabon arrival visa sticker

    For the other 182 verified residual ordinary-passport codes, the authenticated DGDI service requires online travel authorisation before flying but issues and takes payment for the visa sticker on arrival. The normalized route is visa on arrival, not a pre-travel electronically issued visa.

    • The live DGDI catalog provides a normal selectable country record for each of these 182 passport nationalities and its exemption table lists none as an ordinary-passport exemption. The portal directs non-exempt applicants through its online visa process and requires a Travel Authorization Receipt before travel.
    • This is not a genuine pre-travel eVisa issuance: the service says payment occurs on arrival when the eVisa sticker is delivered. The online authorisation is a prerequisite to the border-issued visa, so the normalized status is visa_on_arrival.
    • The Government's current notice limits this route to air travel through Libreville Léon-Mba International Airport. It does not establish a land, sea, work, residence, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee, or special-document route.
    • The DGDI host currently omits a trusted TLS issuer chain. The Government notice directly authenticates the host and the leaf certificate covers it, but the service must be rechecked when its normal secure chain is restored; do not rely on a browser certificate override as independent verification.
    182 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Spain, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Finland, South Korea, Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, New Zealand, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, United States, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Iceland, Lithuania, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Croatia, Monaco, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania, Chile, Andorra, Hong Kong (SAR China), Argentina, Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Brunei, Israel, The Bahamas, Mexico, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Uruguay, Seychelles, Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City, Costa Rica, Panama, St. Lucia, Grenada, Paraguay, Ukraine, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Dominica, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Solomon Islands, Samoa, El Salvador, Guatemala, Serbia, Colombia, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Honduras, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Nicaragua, Kiribati, Micronesia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Palau Islands, Albania, Georgia, Venezuela, Russian Federation, Qatar, Türkiye, Timor-Leste, Belize, Ecuador, Kuwait, Maldives, Fiji, Saudi Arabia, Nauru, Vanuatu, Guyana, Bahrain, Jamaica, Oman, China, Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Thailand, Belarus, Bolivia, Suriname, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Lesotho, Namibia, Dominican Republic, eSwatini, Azerbaijan, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, The Gambia, Armenia, Philippines, Rwanda, Tunisia, Cape Verde Islands, Mongolia, Benin, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, India, Madagascar, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Togo, Niger, Tajikistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Comoro Islands, Algeria, Angola, Cambodia, Haiti, Liberia, Bhutan, Jordan, Laos, Burundi, Turkmenistan, Djibouti, Egypt, Lebanon, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Myanmar, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Iran, Libya, Eritrea, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, South Sudan, Sudan, Bangladesh, Somalia, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesOfficial Government Portal of the Gabonese Republic: Official Government Portal: Gabon eVisa serviceDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration: DGDI Gabon eVisa: application, exemption list and arrival deliveryDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration: DGDI Gabon eVisa: live country and passport-exemption catalog
  11. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    German, Dutch and British ordinary passports: Gabon arrival sticker after electronic preapproval

    DGDI requires these non-exempt ordinary-passport visitors to obtain online travel authorisation before flying, then takes payment and delivers the visa sticker at Libreville airport; the normalized route is visa on arrival.

    • The live DGDI catalogue contains country records for Germany, the Netherlands and ‘United Kingdom British Citizen’, plus a distinct Ordinary Passport document type; it does not list ordinary passports for those records among the named exemptions.
    • A Travel Authorization Receipt is required before departure, but payment and physical visa-sticker delivery occur on arrival; this is not a pre-travel electronically issued visa.
    • The current Government notice limits the route to air travel through Libreville Léon-Mba International Airport. Work, residence, transit, crew, special documents and final admission remain outside this baseline.
    • The DGDI server currently omits a trusted TLS issuer chain. The central Government directly authenticates the service, but the rule must be refreshed when the normal chain is restored.
    3 passport nationalities covered

    Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Official sourcesOfficial Government Portal of the Gabonese Republic: Official Government Portal: Gabon eVisa serviceDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration: DGDI Gabon eVisa: pretravel receipt and arrival stickerDirection Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration: DGDI live country and passport-exemption catalogue