Visa requirements for Bhutanese citizens

Visa requirements for Bhutanese citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Bhutan. As of 2 July 2019, Bhutanese citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 52 countries and territories, ranking the Bhutanese passport 92nd in terms of travel freedom (tied with passports from Chad and Comoros) according to the Henley Passport Index.[1]

Visa requirements map

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Visa requirements for Bhutanese citizens
  Bhutan
  Freedom of movement
  Visa not required
  Visa on arrival
  eVisa
  Visa available both on arrival or online
  Visa required

Visa requirements

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Country Visa requirement Allowed stay Notes (excluding departure fees)
  Afghanistan Visa required[2]
  Albania Visa required[3]
  Algeria Visa required[4]
  Andorra Visa required[5]
  Angola Visa required[6]
  Antigua and Barbuda eVisa[7]
  Argentina Visa required[8]
  Armenia eVisa / Visa on arrival[9] 120 days
  Australia and territories Online visa required[10]
  • May apply online (Online Visitor e600 visa).[11]
  Austria Visa required[12]
  Azerbaijan Visa required[13]
  Bahamas eVisa[14][15] 3 months
  Bahrain Visa required[16]
  Bangladesh Visa not required[17] 90 days
  Barbados Visa required[18]
  Belarus Visa required[19]
  Belgium Visa required[20]
  Belize Visa required[21]
  Benin eVisa[22][23] 30 days
  • Must have an international vaccination certificate.
  Bolivia Visa required[24]
  Bosnia and Herzegovina Visa required[25]
  Botswana Visa required[26]
  Brazil Visa required[27]
  Brunei Visa required[28]
  Bulgaria Visa required[29]
  Burkina Faso Visa required[30]
  Burundi Visa on arrival[31] 1 month
  Cambodia eVisa / Visa on arrival[32] [33] 30 days
  Cameroon Visa required[34]
  Canada Visa required[35]
  Cape Verde Visa on arrival[36]
  Central African Republic Visa required[37]
  Chad Visa required[38]
  Chile Visa required[39]
  China Visa required[40]
  Colombia Visa not required[42] 90 days
  Comoros Visa on arrival[43] 45 days
  Republic of the Congo Visa required[44]
  Democratic Republic of the Congo eVisa[45][46] 7 days
  Costa Rica Visa required[47]
  Côte d'Ivoire eVisa[48] 3 months
  Croatia Visa required[49]
  Cuba Tourist card required[50] 90 days
  • Can be extended up to 90 days with a fee.
  Cyprus Visa required[51]
  Czech Republic Visa required[52]
  Denmark Visa required[53]
  Djibouti eVisa[54] 31 days
  Dominica Visa not required[55] 21 days
  Dominican Republic Visa required[56]
  Ecuador Visa not required[57] 90 days
  Egypt Visa on arrival[58] 30 days
  El Salvador Visa required[59]
  Equatorial Guinea Visa required[60]
  Eritrea Visa required[61]
  Estonia Visa required[62]
  Eswatini Visa required[63]
  Ethiopia eVisa[64] up to 90 days
  Fiji Visa required[65]
  Finland Visa required[66]
  France Visa required[67]
  Gabon eVisa[68]
  Gambia Visa not required[69] 90 days
  Georgia eVisa[70]
  Germany Visa required[71]
  Ghana Visa required[72]
  Greece Visa required[73]
  Grenada Visa required[74]
  Guatemala Visa required[75]
  Guinea eVisa[76] 90 days
  Guinea-Bissau Visa Required[77]
  Guyana Visa required[78]
  Haiti Visa not required[79] 3 months
  Honduras Visa required[80]
  Hungary Visa required[81]
  Iceland Visa required[82]
  India Freedom of movement[83]
  Indonesia Visa required[84]
  Iran eVisa[85] 30 days
  Iraq Visa required[86]
  Ireland Visa required[87]
  Israel Visa required[88]
  Italy Visa required[89]
  Jamaica Visa required[90]
  Japan Visa required[91]
  Jordan Visa on arrival[92] 30 days
  Kazakhstan Visa required[93]
  Kenya eVisa[94][95] 3 months
  Kiribati Visa required[96]
  North Korea Visa required[97]
  South Korea Visa required[98]
  Kuwait eVisa / Visa on arrival[99] 30 days/3 months
  Kyrgyzstan eVisa[100]
  Laos eVisa / Visa on arrival[101] 30 days
  Latvia Visa required[105]
  Lebanon Visa on arrival[106] 1 month
  • 1 month extendable for 2 additional months
  • Granted free of charge at Beirut International Airport or any other port of entry if there is no Israeli visa or seal, holding a telephone number, an address in Lebanon, and a non refundable return or circle trip ticket.
  Lesotho eVisa[107][108]
  Liberia Visa required[109]
  Libya Visa required[110]
  Liechtenstein Visa required[111]
  Lithuania Visa required[112]
  Luxembourg Visa required[113]
  Madagascar eVisa / Visa on arrival[114] 90 days
  Malawi eVisa / Visa on arrival[115][116]
  Malaysia eVisa[117][118]
  Maldives Free visa on arrival[119] 30 days
  Mali Visa required[120]
  Malta Visa required[121]
  Marshall Islands Visa required[122]
  Mauritania Visa on arrival[123]
  Mauritius Visa on arrival[124] 60 days
  Mexico Visa required[125]
  Micronesia Visa not required[126] 30 days
  Moldova Online Visa[127][128]
  Monaco Visa required[129]
  Mongolia Visa required[130]
  Montenegro Visa required[131]
  Morocco Visa required[132]
  Mozambique eVisa / Visa on arrival[133][134] 30 days
  Myanmar eVisa[135] 28 days
  Namibia Visa required[136]
  Nauru Visa required[137]
    Nepal Visa on arrival[138] 90 days
  Netherlands Visa required[139]
  New Zealand and territories Visa required[140]
  • Holders of an Australian Permanent Resident Visa or Resident Return Visa may be granted a New Zealand Resident Visa on arrival permitting indefinite stay (pursuant to the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement), subject to meeting character requirements and obtaining an Electronic Travel Authority prior to departure.[141]
  Nicaragua Visa on arrival[142]
  Niger Visa required[143]
  Nigeria eVisa[144][145] 90 days
  North Macedonia Visa required[146]
  Norway Visa required[147]
  Oman Visa required[148]
  Pakistan Online Visa[149]
  Palau Free visa on arrival[150] 30 days
  Panama Visa not required[151] 90 days
  Papua New Guinea Visa required[152]
  Paraguay Visa required[153]
  Peru Visa required[154]
  Philippines Visa not required[155] 30 days
  Poland Visa required[156]
  Portugal Visa required[157]
  Qatar Visa required[158]
  Romania Visa required[159]
  Russia eVisa[160] 16 days
  • e-Visa holders must arrive and depart via 29 checkpoints[161]
  Rwanda eVisa / Visa on arrival[162] 30 days
  Saint Kitts and Nevis Visa required[163]
  Saint Lucia Visa on arrival[164] 6 weeks
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Visa not required[165] 1 month
  Samoa Visa not required[166] 60 days
  San Marino Visa required[167]
  São Tomé and Príncipe eVisa[168]
  Saudi Arabia Visa required[169]
  Senegal Visa required[170]
  Serbia Visa required[171]
  Seychelles Free Visitor's Permit on arrival[172] 3 months
  Sierra Leone Visa required[173]
  Singapore Visa not required[174] 30 days
  Slovakia Visa required[175]
  Slovenia Visa required[173]
  Solomon Islands Visa required[176]
  Somalia Visa on arrival[177] 30 days
  South Africa Visa required[178]
  South Sudan eVisa[179]
  • Obtainable online[180]
  • Printed visa authorization must be presented at the time of travel[180]
  Spain Visa required[181]
  Sri Lanka ETA / Visa on arrival[182]
  Sudan Visa required[183]
  Suriname Visa not required[184] 90 days
  • An entrance fee of 25 USD or 25 Euros must be paid online prior to arrival.[185]
  Sweden Visa required[186]
   Switzerland Visa required[187]
  Syria Visa required[188]
  Tajikistan Visa required[189]
  Tanzania eVisa / Visa on arrival[190][191] 3 months
  Thailand Visa on arrival[192] 15 days
  Timor-Leste Visa on arrival[193] 30 days
  Togo Visa on arrival[194] 7 days
  Tonga Visa required[195]
  Trinidad and Tobago Visa required[196]
  Tunisia Visa required[197]
  Turkey Visa required[198]
  Turkmenistan Visa required[199]
  Tuvalu Visa on arrival[200] 1 month
  Uganda eVisa[201] 3 months
  Ukraine Visa required[203]
  United Arab Emirates Visa required[204]
  • May apply using 'Smart service'.[205]
  United Kingdom Visa required[206]
  United States Visa required[207]
  Uruguay Visa required[208]
  Uzbekistan eVisa[209] 30 days
  • 5-day visa-free transit at the international airports if holding a confirmed onward ticket for a flight to a third country.[210]
  Vanuatu Visa required[211]
  Vatican City Visa required[212]
  Venezuela Visa required[213]
  Vietnam Visa required[214]
  Yemen Visa required[216]
  Zambia eVisa / Visa on arrival[217] 90 days
  Zimbabwe eVisa / Visa on arrival[218] 3 months
  • 30 days for visits on business, 3 months for tourists

Non-visa restrictions

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Many countries have entry restrictions on foreigners that go beyond the common requirement of having either a valid visa or a visa exemption. Such restrictions may be health related or impose additional documentation requirements on certain classes of people for diplomatic or political purposes.

Blank passport pages

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Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages.[219] Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being valid or available.

Vaccination

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Cover of the new International Certificate of Vaccination issued by the Bureau of Quarantine in the Philippines since 2021

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia, require all incoming passengers older than nine months to one year[220] to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.[221]

Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area or has visited one recently or has transited for 12 hours in those countries: Algeria, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[222][223]

Passport validity length

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Very few countries, such as Paraguay, just require a valid passport on arrival.

However many countries and groupings now require only an identity card – especially from their neighbours. Other countries may have special bilateral arrangements that depart from the generality of their passport validity length policies to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other's citizens[224][225] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).[226]

Some countries, such as Japan,[227] Ireland and the United Kingdom,[228] require a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.

In the absence of specific bilateral agreements, countries requiring passports to be valid for at least 6 more months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain,[229] Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel,[230] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru,[231] Philippines,[232] Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.[233]

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia and Zambia.

Countries requiring passports with a validity of at least 3 months beyond the date of intended departure include Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Honduras, Montenegro, Nauru, Moldova and New Zealand. Similarly, the EEA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, all European Union countries (except Ireland) together with Switzerland also require 3 months validity beyond the date of the bearer's intended departure unless the bearer is an EEA or Swiss national.

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include Albania, North Macedonia, Panama, and Senegal.

Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.

Countries that require a passport validity of at least one month beyond the date of intended departure include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau, the Maldives[234] and South Africa.

Criminal record

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Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,[235] routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record, while others impose restrictions depending on the type of conviction and the length of the sentence.

Persona non grata

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The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning them from entering the country or expelling them if they have already entered. In non-diplomatic use, the authorities of a country may also declare a foreigner persona non grata permanently or temporarily, usually because of unlawful activity.[236]

Israeli stamps

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Israeli border control Entry Permit (issued as a stand-alone document rather than a stamp affixed in a passport)

Kuwait,[237] Lebanon,[238] Libya,[239] and Yemen[240] do not allow entry to people with passport stamps from Israel or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa, or where there is evidence of previous travel to Israel such as entry or exit stamps from neighbouring border posts in transit countries such as Jordan and Egypt.

To circumvent this Arab League boycott of Israel, the Israeli immigration services have now mostly ceased to stamp foreign nationals' passports on either entry to or exit from Israel (unless the entry is for some work-related purposes). Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport. Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017) stamped at Erez when passing into and out of Gaza.[citation needed]

Iran refuses admission to holders of passports containing an Israeli visa or stamp that is less than 12 months old.

Biometrics

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Several countries mandate that all travellers, or all foreign travellers, be fingerprinted on arrival and will refuse admission to or even arrest travellers who refuse to comply. In some countries, such as the United States, this may apply even to transit passengers who merely wish to change planes rather than go landside.[241]

Fingerprinting countries/regions include Afghanistan,[242][243] Argentina,[244] Brunei, Cambodia,[245] China,[246] Ethiopia,[247] Ghana, Guinea,[248] India, Japan,[249][250] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),[251] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[252] Mongolia, Saudi Arabia,[253] Singapore, South Korea,[254] Taiwan, Thailand,[255] Uganda,[256] the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Many countries also require a photo be taken of people entering the country. The United States, which does not fully implement exit control formalities at its land frontiers (although long mandated by its own legislation),[257][258][259] intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.[260]

Together with fingerprint and face recognition, iris scanning is one of three biometric identification technologies internationally standardised since 2006 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for use in e-passports[261] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.[262][263]

See also

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References and Notes

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Notes
  1. ^
    • Panghok - Taichang (Vietnam)
    • Lantui - Baka (China)
    • Meuang mom - Wan Pong (Myanmar)
    • Tanalaeng Dry Port - Nongkai (Thailand)
    • Nonghaed - Nam kanh (Vietnam)
    • Pakxan - Bungkan (Thailand)
    • Nam phao - Cau treo (Vietnam)
    • Na pao - Cha lo (Vietnam)
    • Nam ngeun - Huay konl (Thailand)
    • Namheuang - Nakaseng (Thailand)
    • Phoudou (Thailand)
    • Nam soy - Na meo (Vietnam)
    • Phoukeua - Kontoum (Vietnam)
    • Lalai (Vietnam)
    • Pangmone - Phayao (Thailand)
    • Daktaock - Nam Giang (Vietnam)
    • Savannakhet Airport
  2. ^
    • Vientiane
    • Savannakhet
    • Bokeo
  3. ^
    • Vientiane
    • Savannakhet
    • Khammouane
    • Bokeo
  4. ^
    • Samliemkham (Thailand and Myanmar)
    • Khamsavath - Nongkai (Thailand)
    • Daensavan - Lao bao (Vietnam)
    • Veunkham - Nong nok khian (Cambodia)
    • Vang tao - Chongmek (Thailand)
    • Boten - Bo han (China)