A cobbled street and a vintage car in Trinidad, Cuba

Who needs a visa for Cuba?

Latin America and the Caribbean · Havana

Photo: Elemaki / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Of 198 nationalities, 21 enter Cuba with no paperwork at all. The rest: 175 must be approved before they travel and 2 cannot travel there.

We have not found a Cuba government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Cuba's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 21

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 155

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

Visa required 20

You must apply and be approved before you travel. Airlines will refuse to board you without it.

No admission 2

A government policy, not a paperwork problem. No agent or service can work around it.

About Cuba

Region
Caribbean
Capital
Havana
Population
10,937,203 2025 · 87th of 197
Size
109,884 km² 104th largest of 199
Density
100 per km²
Language
Spanish
Currency
Cuban convertible peso CUC

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.