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Kiribati visa requirements

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

Access data checked August 24, 20269 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free123Visa required75
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

123

Visa required

75
Policy history

Official evidence timeline

One group agreement or destination policy can support many passport relationships. Dates are recorded only when an official source establishes them.

  1. Visa-free

    Covered EU ordinary passports gained Kiribati short-stay access

    The reciprocal EU–Kiribati agreement is provisionally applied from 2016-06-24; no final entry-into-force notice was located in this review.

    • The waiver is limited to valid ordinary passports and short stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period.
    • Paid activity is excluded, and ordinary entry conditions and refusal powers continue to apply.
    • Ireland is outside the agreement.
    26 passport nationalities covered

    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

    Official sourcesPublications Office of the European Union: Consolidated Regulation (EU) 2018/1806Official Journal of the European Union: EU–Kiribati short-stay visa waiver agreement
  2. Current official routeCitizenship

    Kiribati citizen: right to enter

    The official Immigration Procedures states that every Kiribati citizen has the right to enter and be in Kiribati. The same-country ordinary-passport catalog row is normalized as citizenship, not a foreign visitor visa route.

    • The statutory right requires proof of citizenship and identity and compliance with border requirements. It does not classify a dual national travelling on another passport or a foreign traveller’s visitor, work, transit, residence, special-document or admission case.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Kiribati

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration, Government of Kiribati: Immigration ProceduresMinistry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration, Government of Kiribati: Kiribati Immigration Act 2019
  3. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named foreign ordinary passports: visa waiver

    The live Immigration Division page identifies the 2023 Order as current and expressly names this mapped foreign-nationality cohort among countries whose citizens may travel to Kiribati without a visa. The procedures call this mechanism a visa waiver; arrival entry processing is not normalized as a visa issued on arrival.

    • The current portal states a maximum 90 days in any 12-month period, a passport valid at least six months from departure, an ICAO-compliant passport, onward travel and sufficient funds.
    • The visa-waiver classification is limited to visitor travel. The portal directs travellers seeking work to obtain a work visa before travel.
    • This does not establish residence, employment, study, transit, diplomatic, official, special-document or individual admission treatment.
    • The portal names Greenland, Puerto Rico, Cook Islands and Niue as places but they are not independent ordinary-passport codes in this catalog; no catalog mapping is made for those place names.
    120 passport nationalities covered

    Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Timor-Leste, Hong Kong (SAR China), India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Macao (SAR China), Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dominica, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Australia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau Islands, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

    Official sourcesKiribati Immigration Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration: Visas & EntryKiribati Immigration Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration: About the DivisionMinistry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration, Government of Kiribati: Immigration Procedures
  4. Current official routeVisa required

    Non-exempt ordinary passports: advance visitor visa

    None of these ordinary-passport nationalities appears in the current Visa Exemption Order 2023 schedule. Kiribati Immigration expressly requires non-exempt visitors to apply in advance.

    • The Order applies its named nationality waiver to ordinary/normal, official/service, and diplomatic ICAO-compliant passports or travel documents. None of this residual ordinary-passport cohort is named, so no listed-document waiver is carried into this baseline; it does not establish special-document treatment.
    • The current Immigration page requires a passport valid at least six months beyond departure, confirmed onward or return travel, and evidence of sufficient funds.
    • Visitor-visa processing is an advance route: download the Visitor Visa Application Form, email it with scanned documents to visaofficer@mfa.gov.ki, then follow the visa officer's payment instructions. It is not an eVisa or an unrestricted visa on arrival.
    75 passport nationalities covered

    Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Nicaragua, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Georgia, Moldova, Türkiye, Ecuador, Kuwait, Kosovo, Bahrain, Oman, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tunisia, Cape Verde Islands, Mongolia, Benin, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Tajikistan, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Vietnam, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Comoro Islands, Algeria, Angola, Cambodia, Congo (Rep.), Liberia, Bhutan, Central African Republic, Jordan, Laos, Burundi, Turkmenistan, Djibouti, Lebanon, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Myanmar, Ethiopia, Iran, Libya, Eritrea, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesKiribati Immigration Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration: Kiribati Immigration Division: Visas & EntryKiribati Immigration Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration: Kiribati Immigration Division: About the DivisionMinistry of Foreign Affairs & Immigration, Government of Kiribati: Kiribati Visa Exemption Order 2023