Who needs a visa for Barbados?
Latin America and the Caribbean · Bridgetown
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Of 198 nationalities, 179 enter Barbados with no paperwork at all. The rest: 19 must be approved before they travel.
- Visa free 179
- Visa required 19
- Government fee
- $107
- Typical decision
- 3 weeks
- Stay permitted
- Single entry: one entry within three months. Multiple entry: several entries within six months.
This is the government's own portal. We are not paid to send you there.
Checked 18 October 2026 — read the fees and rules on immigration.gov.bb
What Barbados asks for
- Application form, completed in full and signed (one per applicant)
- One passport-size photograph
- Copies of the passport cover and biometric page
- Birth certificate, and marriage certificate where applicable
- Cover letter to the Chief Immigration Officer giving the purpose, entry date and length of the visit
- Employment letter, or a letter from your school, college or university
- Proof of legal status if you live outside your country of birth
- Certified English translations of any documents not in English
Worth knowing
- An entry visa does not guarantee entry. The immigration officer at the port of entry decides.
- Barbados says its entry visa process is now fully online. Apply and pay through the Immigration Department's own portal.
Photo requirements
We have not yet read the photo rules for Barbados on an official page, so we print no sizes. Photo rules we have checked, and official links for the rest
Resize a photo in your browser. It is never uploaded.
What do you need?
Who needs what
No nationality matches that.
Visa free 179
Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.
- Albania 28d
- Algeria 90d
- Andorra 90d
- Angola 90d
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina 90d
- Armenia 28d
- Australia 180d
- Austria 90d
- Azerbaijan 28d
- Bahamas
- Bahrain 90d
- Bangladesh 180d
- Belarus 28d
- Belgium 90d
- Belize 180d
- Benin 90d
- Bhutan 90d
- Bolivia 90d
- Botswana 180d
- Brazil 180d
- Brunei 180d
- Bulgaria 90d
- Burkina Faso 90d
- Burundi 90d
- Cambodia 90d
- Cameroon 90d
- Canada 180d
- Cape Verde 90d
- Central African Republic 90d
- Chad 90d
- Chile 90d
- China 30d
- Colombia 90d
- Comoros 90d
- Costa Rica 30d
- Côte d’Ivoire 90d
- Croatia 90d
- Cuba 28d
- Cyprus 90d
- Czechia 90d
- Denmark 90d
- Djibouti 90d
- Dominica
- DR Congo 90d
- Ecuador 90d
- Egypt 90d
- El Salvador 90d
- Equatorial Guinea 90d
- Estonia 90d
- Eswatini 180d
- Ethiopia 90d
- Fiji 180d
- Finland 90d
- France 90d
- Gabon 90d
- Gambia 180d
- Georgia 28d
- Germany 90d
- Ghana 180d
- Greece 90d
- Grenada
- Guatemala 90d
- Guinea 90d
- Guinea-Bissau 90d
- Guyana
- Honduras 90d
- Hong Kong 30d
- Hungary 90d
- Iceland 90d
- India 90d
- Indonesia 90d
- Ireland 180d
- Israel 180d
- Italy 90d
- Jamaica 180d
- Japan 90d
- Jordan 90d
- Kazakhstan 28d
- Kenya 180d
- Kiribati 180d
- Kuwait 90d
- Kyrgyzstan 28d
- Latvia 90d
- Lebanon 90d
- Lesotho 180d
- Liberia 90d
- Liechtenstein 180d
- Lithuania 90d
- Luxembourg 90d
- Macao 30d
- Madagascar 90d
- Malawi 180d
- Malaysia 180d
- Maldives 180d
- Mali 180d
- Malta 90d
- Marshall Islands 90d
- Mauritania 180d
- Mauritius 180d
- Mexico 28d
- Micronesia 90d
- Moldova 28d
- Monaco 90d
- Mongolia 90d
- Montenegro 90d
- Morocco 90d
- Mozambique 90d
- Namibia 90d
- Nauru 90d
- Nepal 90d
- Netherlands 90d
- New Zealand 180d
- Nicaragua 28d
- Niger 90d
- Nigeria 180d
- North Macedonia 90d
- Norway 90d
- Oman 90d
- Pakistan 90d
- Palau 90d
- Panama 28d
- Paraguay 90d
- Peru 28d
- Philippines 90d
- Poland 90d
- Portugal 90d
- Qatar 90d
- Republic of the Congo 90d
- Romania 180d
- Russia 90d
- Rwanda 90d
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 180d
- Saint Lucia 180d
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 180d
- Samoa 180d
- San Marino 180d
- Sao Tome and Principe 90d
- Saudi Arabia 90d
- Senegal 90d
- Serbia 90d
- Seychelles 180d
- Sierra Leone 180d
- Singapore 180d
- Slovakia 90d
- Slovenia 90d
- Solomon Islands 180d
- South Africa 180d
- South Korea 90d
- South Sudan 90d
- Spain 90d
- Sri Lanka 180d
- Sudan 90d
- Suriname 180d
- Sweden 90d
- Switzerland 180d
- Tajikistan 28d
- Tanzania 180d
- Thailand 90d
- Timor-Leste 28d
- Togo 90d
- Tonga 180d
- Trinidad and Tobago 180d
- Tunisia 180d
- Türkiye 180d
- Turkmenistan 28d
- Tuvalu 180d
- Uganda 180d
- Ukraine 28d
- United Arab Emirates 90d
- United Kingdom 180d
- United States 180d
- Uruguay 90d
- Uzbekistan 28d
- Vanuatu 180d
- Venezuela 28d
- Vietnam 90d
- Zambia 180d
- Zimbabwe 180d
Visa required 19
You must apply and be approved before you travel. Airlines will refuse to board you without it.
About Barbados
- Region
- Caribbean
- Capital
- Bridgetown
- Population
- 282,623 2025 · 177th of 197
- Size
- 430 km² 186th largest of 199
- Density
- 657 per km²
- Language
- English
- Currency
- Barbadian dollar BBD
Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.