When were the the Schengen Area visa rules last checked?

20 Aug 2026, against European Commission. Requirements change without much notice, so confirm on the official page before you apply.

Visa check

Do you need a visa for the Schengen Area?

93 nationalities enter the Schengen Area without a visa for up to 90 days. Every other passport needs one before travelling. Where you live changes where you apply, not whether you need it.

Who needs a visa for the Schengen Area?

Every nationality, resolved against the current rule. 239 passports listed.

Nationality	Requirement	Max stay	Nationality	Requirement	Max stay
Afghanistan	Visa required	—	Albania	No visa needed	90 days
Algeria	Visa required	—	American Samoa	Visa required	—
Andorra	No visa needed	90 days	Angola	Visa required	—
Anguilla	Visa required	—	Antigua and Barbuda	No visa needed	90 days
Argentina	No visa needed	90 days	Armenia	Visa required	—
Aruba	Visa required	—	Australia	No visa needed	90 days
Austria	No visa needed	90 days	Azerbaijan	Visa required	—
Bahamas	No visa needed	90 days	Bahrain	Visa required	—
Bangladesh	Visa required	—	Barbados	No visa needed	90 days
Belarus	Visa required	—	Belgium	No visa needed	90 days
Belize	Visa required	—	Benin	Visa required	—
Bermuda	Visa required	—	Bhutan	Visa required	—
Bolivia	Visa required	—	Bosnia and Herzegovina	No visa needed	90 days
Botswana	Visa required	—	Brazil	No visa needed	90 days
British Indian Ocean Territory	Visa required	—	British Virgin Islands	Visa required	—
Brunei	No visa needed	90 days	Bulgaria	No visa needed	90 days
Burkina Faso	Visa required	—	Burundi	Visa required	—
Cambodia	Visa required	—	Cameroon	Visa required	—
Canada	No visa needed	90 days	Cape Verde	Visa required	—
Cayman Islands	Visa required	—	Central African Republic	Visa required	—
Chad	Visa required	—	Chile	No visa needed	90 days
China	Visa required	—	Christmas Island	Visa required	—
Cocos Islands	Visa required	—	Colombia	No visa needed	90 days
Comoros	Visa required	—	Cook Islands	Visa required	—
Costa Rica	No visa needed	90 days	Croatia	No visa needed	90 days
Cuba	Visa required	—	Curacao	Visa required	—
Cyprus	No visa needed	90 days	Czech Republic	No visa needed	90 days
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Visa required	—	Denmark	No visa needed	90 days
Djibouti	Visa required	—	Dominica	No visa needed	90 days
Dominican Republic	Visa required	—	East Timor	No visa needed	90 days
Ecuador	Visa required	—	Egypt	Visa required	—
El Salvador	No visa needed	90 days	Equatorial Guinea	Visa required	—
Eritrea	Visa required	—	Estonia	No visa needed	90 days
Ethiopia	Visa required	—	Falkland Islands	Visa required	—
Faroe Islands	Visa required	—	Fiji	Visa required	—
Finland	No visa needed	90 days	France	No visa needed	90 days
French Polynesia	Visa required	—	Gabon	Visa required	—
Gambia	Visa required	—	Georgia	No visa needed	90 days
Germany	No visa needed	90 days	Ghana	Visa required	—
Gibraltar	Visa required	—	Greece	No visa needed	90 days
Greenland	Visa required	—	Grenada	No visa needed	90 days
Guam	Visa required	—	Guatemala	No visa needed	90 days
Guernsey	Visa required	—	Guinea	Visa required	—
Guinea-Bissau	Visa required	—	Guyana	Visa required	—
Haiti	Visa required	—	Honduras	No visa needed	90 days
Hong Kong	No visa needed	90 days	Hungary	No visa needed	90 days
Iceland	No visa needed	90 days	India	Visa required	—
Indonesia	Visa required	—	Iran	Visa required	—
Iraq	Visa required	—	Ireland	No visa needed	90 days
Isle of Man	Visa required	—	Israel	No visa needed	90 days
Italy	No visa needed	90 days	Ivory Coast	Visa required	—
Jamaica	Visa required	—	Japan	No visa needed	90 days
Jersey	Visa required	—	Jordan	Visa required	—
Kazakhstan	Visa required	—	Kenya	Visa required	—
Kiribati	No visa needed	90 days	Kosovo	Visa required	—
Kuwait	Visa required	—	Kyrgyzstan	Visa required	—
Laos	Visa required	—	Latvia	No visa needed	90 days
Lebanon	Visa required	—	Lesotho	Visa required	—
Liberia	Visa required	—	Libya	Visa required	—
Liechtenstein	No visa needed	90 days	Lithuania	No visa needed	90 days
Luxembourg	No visa needed	90 days	Macao	No visa needed	90 days
Macedonia	No visa needed	90 days	Madagascar	Visa required	—
Malawi	Visa required	—	Malaysia	No visa needed	90 days
Maldives	Visa required	—	Mali	Visa required	—
Malta	No visa needed	90 days	Marshall Islands	No visa needed	90 days
Mauritania	Visa required	—	Mauritius	No visa needed	90 days
Mayotte	Visa required	—	Mexico	No visa needed	90 days
Micronesia	No visa needed	90 days	Moldova	No visa needed	90 days
Monaco	No visa needed	90 days	Mongolia	Visa required	—
Montenegro	No visa needed	90 days	Montserrat	Visa required	—
Morocco	Visa required	—	Mozambique	Visa required	—
Myanmar	Visa required	—	Namibia	Visa required	—
Nauru	No visa needed	90 days	Nepal	Visa required	—
Netherlands	No visa needed	90 days	Netherlands Antilles	Visa required	—
New Caledonia	Visa required	—	New Zealand	No visa needed	90 days
Nicaragua	No visa needed	90 days	Niger	Visa required	—
Nigeria	Visa required	—	Niue	Visa required	—
North Korea	Visa required	—	Northern Mariana Islands	Visa required	—
Norway	No visa needed	90 days	Oman	Visa required	—
Pakistan	Visa required	—	Palau	No visa needed	90 days
Palestine	Visa required	—	Panama	No visa needed	90 days
Papua New Guinea	Visa required	—	Paraguay	No visa needed	90 days
Peru	No visa needed	90 days	Philippines	Visa required	—
Pitcairn	Visa required	—	Poland	No visa needed	90 days
Portugal	No visa needed	90 days	Puerto Rico	Visa required	—
Qatar	Visa required	—	Republic of the Congo	Visa required	—
Reunion	Visa required	—	Romania	No visa needed	90 days
Russia	Visa required	—	Rwanda	Visa required	—
Saint Barthelemy	Visa required	—	Saint Helena	Visa required	—
Saint Kitts and Nevis	No visa needed	90 days	Saint Lucia	No visa needed	90 days
Saint Martin	Visa required	—	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Visa required	—
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	No visa needed	90 days	Samoa	No visa needed	90 days
San Marino	No visa needed	90 days	Sao Tome and Principe	Visa required	—
Saudi Arabia	Visa required	—	Senegal	Visa required	—
Serbia	Visa required	—	Seychelles	No visa needed	90 days
Sierra Leone	Visa required	—	Singapore	No visa needed	90 days
Sint Maarten	Visa required	—	Slovakia	No visa needed	90 days
Slovenia	No visa needed	90 days	Solomon Islands	No visa needed	90 days
Somalia	Visa required	—	South Africa	Visa required	—
South Korea	No visa needed	90 days	South Sudan	Visa required	—
Spain	No visa needed	90 days	Sri Lanka	Visa required	—
Sudan	Visa required	—	Suriname	Visa required	—
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Visa required	—	Swaziland	Visa required	—
Sweden	No visa needed	90 days	Switzerland	No visa needed	90 days
Syria	Visa required	—	Taiwan	No visa needed	90 days
Tajikistan	Visa required	—	Tanzania	Visa required	—
Thailand	Visa required	—	Togo	Visa required	—
Tokelau	Visa required	—	Tonga	No visa needed	90 days
Trinidad and Tobago	No visa needed	90 days	Tunisia	Visa required	—
Turkey	Visa required	—	Turkmenistan	Visa required	—
Turks and Caicos Islands	Visa required	—	Tuvalu	No visa needed	90 days
U.S. Virgin Islands	Visa required	—	Uganda	Visa required	—
Ukraine	No visa needed	90 days	United Arab Emirates	No visa needed	90 days
United Kingdom	No visa needed	90 days	United States	No visa needed	90 days
Uruguay	No visa needed	90 days	Uzbekistan	Visa required	—
Vanuatu	Visa required	—	Vatican	No visa needed	90 days
Venezuela	No visa needed	90 days	Vietnam	Visa required	—
Wallis and Futuna	Visa required	—	Western Sahara	Visa required	—
Yemen	Visa required	—	Zambia	Visa required	—
Zimbabwe	Visa required	—

If you live in the United Arab Emirates

UAE residence does not remove the Schengen visa requirement, but it does decide where you apply: Schengen Area applications are filed from the UAE rather than your country of nationality. Check your residence permit has enough validity left before you travel.

Schengen short-stay policy is common to all 29 member states. Visa-exempt nationalities come from Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806; see https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen/visa-policy_en. Some exemptions are conditional (biometric passport for Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova; specific passport types for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Serbia), so confirm the passport type before relying on this.

Source European CommissionLast checked 20 Aug 2026

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