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United Kingdom visa requirements

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

Access data checked October 8, 202614 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free1ETA83eVisa114
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

1

ETA

83

eVisa

114
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. eVisa

    United Kingdom visa-national ordinary passports: digitally issued Standard Visitor visa

    The exact current visa-national ordinary-passport cohort still needs individual entry clearance before travel, but every successful new application is now issued as an eVisa rather than a passport vignette.

    • The policy covers the current Visa National List's ordinary-passport Standard Visitor baseline. Its document-specific exceptions, organised school parties, airside transit and special or non-national travel documents are not flattened into the nationality rows.
    • A visa remains individually adjudicated before travel. Applicants apply online, pay the fee, provide supporting documents and normally attend a visa application centre to provide fingerprints and a photograph; electronic issuance does not make this an ETA or visa-free route.
    • UKVI stopped issuing new visa vignette stickers on 1 July 2026. Successful applicants access the eVisa through a UKVI account and must link the passport or accepted travel document used for travel.
    • A person whose passport or travel document is not accepted by the Home Office may receive a physical Form for Accompanying an eVisa. The form enables travel with the linked eVisa and does not turn the visa into a vignette-issued route.
    • Physical vignettes issued before the cutover remain valid until their individual expiry. The 25 February 2026 partial rollout is retained as historical context but is not assigned by nationality because the official announcement defined only most visitor applicants.
    • Marriage or civil-partnership visits, longer stays, work, study, residence, settlement, transit and final border admission remain outside this ordinary short-visitor classification.
    114 passport nationalities covered

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, eSwatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, North Korea, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Philippines, Russian Federation, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, El Salvador

    Official sourcesHome Office: Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor: Visa national listUK Visas and Immigration: Updates on the move to eVisasUK Visas and Immigration: eVisas: access and use your online immigration statusHome Office: Visit the UK as a Standard Visitor: Apply for a Standard Visitor visa
  2. ETA

    United Kingdom ETA nationalities from April 2025

    These European passport holders require an ETA for qualifying short visitor travel to the United Kingdom.

    • Irish citizens are outside this cohort, and Vatican City has separate Holy See document exceptions.
    • The route covers qualifying visitor stays up to six months and approval does not guarantee entry.
    • Valid UK permission, specified British statuses, and lawful Irish residence with Common Travel Area travel can remove the ETA requirement.
    • Airside transit and travel through border control have separate rules.
    34 passport nationalities covered

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

    Official sourcesUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix ETA National ListUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix Electronic Travel AuthorisationUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor Visa National ListUK Home Office: UK transit visa overviewUK Home Office: Apply for a UK ETA
  3. ETA

    United Kingdom ETA nationalities from January 2025

    These passport holders require an ETA for qualifying short visitor travel to the United Kingdom.

    • Taiwan requires a passport containing the identification-card number; Hong Kong and Macao require the respective SAR passports.
    • The route covers qualifying visitor stays up to six months and approval does not guarantee entry.
    • Valid UK permission, specified British statuses, and lawful Irish residence with Common Travel Area travel can remove the ETA requirement.
    • Airside transit and travel through border control have separate rules.
    43 passport nationalities covered

    Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong (SAR China), Israel, Japan, Kiribati, Macao (SAR China), Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, New Zealand, Palau Islands, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), The Bahamas, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States, Uruguay

    Official sourcesUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix ETA National ListUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix Electronic Travel AuthorisationUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor Visa National ListUK Home Office: UK transit visa overviewUK Home Office: Apply for a UK ETA
  4. Current official routeCitizenship

    British citizens have right of abode in the United Kingdom

    British citizens use citizenship access rather than an ETA or visitor visa to enter the United Kingdom.

    • The GB code models British citizen passports and must not be read as every British national document status.
    • Carrier document checks and treatment of another passport held by a dual national remain outside this rule.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    United Kingdom

    Official sourcesUK legislation: UK Immigration Act 1971, section 2UK Home Office: When a UK ETA is not needed
  5. Current official routeVisa-free

    Irish citizens have Common Travel Area access to the United Kingdom

    Irish citizens generally do not require leave, an ETA, or a visa to enter or remain in the United Kingdom.

    • The rule applies to Irish citizens rather than every traveller from Ireland or every Irish-issued document.
    • Deportation orders, exclusion decisions, and specified international travel bans are exceptions.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Ireland

    Official sourcesUK legislation: UK Immigration Act 1971, section 3ZAUK Cabinet Office and Home Office: UK Common Travel Area guidanceUK Home Office: When a UK ETA is not needed
  6. Current official routeETA

    Early United Kingdom ETA nationalities

    These Gulf passport holders require an ETA for qualifying short visitor travel to the United Kingdom.

    • Qatar has required ETA for travel from 15 November 2023; the other listed nationalities from 22 February 2024.
    • The route covers qualifying visitor stays up to six months and does not itself grant entry.
    • Valid UK permission, specified British statuses, and lawful Irish residence with Common Travel Area travel can remove the ETA requirement.
    • Airside transit and travel through border control have separate rules.
    6 passport nationalities covered

    Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

    Official sourcesUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix ETA National ListUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix Electronic Travel AuthorisationUK Home Office: When a UK ETA is not neededUK Home Office: UK transit visa overviewUK Home Office: Apply for a UK ETA
  7. Through Visa required

    United Kingdom visa-national ordinary passports required physical or mixed-format entry clearance

    Before the complete digital cutover, these ordinary-passport nationalities required a Standard Visitor visa or other appropriate entry clearance before travel without an exhaustive all-passport eVisa rule.

    • Document-specific exceptions, airside transit, organised school parties, and temporary transition rules are not flattened into this ordinary visitor policy.
    • HKSAR and Macao SAR passports and qualifying Taiwan ID-number passports are modelled through ETA instead.
    • The official process required an online application before travel and a visa application-centre appointment. From 25 February 2026 most visitor applicants received eVisas, but the published material did not define that partial nationality cohort exhaustively.
    • This conservative historical policy ends on 30 June 2026. A separate current policy records the exhaustive eVisa-only route from 1 July 2026.
    • Marriage or civil-partnership visits and stays over six months can require different entry clearance.
    114 passport nationalities covered

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, eSwatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, North Korea, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Philippines, Russian Federation, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, El Salvador

    Official sourcesUK Home Office: UK Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor Visa National ListUK Home Office: Apply for a UK Standard Visitor visaUK Home Office: UK transit visa overview