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Somalia visa requirements

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

Access data checked August 24, 20264 official sources collected
Citizenship1ETA198
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199 passports

Citizenship

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ETA

198
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. ETA

    Foreign ordinary passports: mandatory electronic travel authorization

    The SCAA AIC introduced eTA for foreign passports; the later current SCAA AIP states that all arriving passengers must obtain eTA and all visas are issued online. The later all-arrivals rule controls because it does not reproduce the earlier named exceptions.

    • Apply through the Electronic Travel Authorization System before travel and present a valid eTA; the current AIP says all arriving passengers must do so, and the AIC warns that failure where required may result in denial of boarding or entry.
    • ICA describes tourist visa as one of its entry-permit categories and says the permit may be a letter, stamp or sticker. The eTA rule does not establish stay duration, entry count, fee, work, residence, business-only, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, UNLP, multiple-visa, residence-permit or other special-document routes.
    • The earlier 3 September 2025 AIC names Rwanda/Malaysia as visa-free and eleven ordinary-passport nationalities as visa-on-arrival. The later current AIP, effective 27 November 2025, instead says all visas are issued online and all arriving passengers need eTA, without preserving an exception list. This temporal official-source conflict is resolved conservatively in favour of the later all-arrivals operational rule and requires recheck.
    198 passport nationalities covered

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

  2. Current official routeCitizenship

    Somali ordinary passport: citizen return access

    The Federal MFA directly provides a temporary travel document for Somali citizens who need to return to Somalia even without a valid travel document. That direct citizen-return evidence supports the catalog citizenship classification.

    • The source supports return access for a Somali citizen, not a foreign-entry visa classification. Identity, citizenship verification, public-health, security and border-control requirements remain applicable.
    • It does not model refugee, emergency, diplomatic, official, service or other special-document treatment beyond the MFA's described citizen-return document.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Somalia