Visa requirements for British Overseas Territories citizens

British Overseas Territories citizens (BOTCs) enjoy visa-free entry to a number of countries and territories. However, in some cases, foreign authorities only grant them a visa-free entry if they present a passport with an endorsement stating their right of abode in the United Kingdom.

The status of British Overseas Territories citizen relates to persons holding British nationality by virtue of a connection with a British Overseas Territory.

Passports

British passports issued to British Overseas Territories Citizens are the following:

• Anguillian passport
• Bermudian passport
• British Virgin Islands passport
• Caymanian passport
• Gibraltar passport
• Montserratian passport
• Pitcairn Islands passport
• Saint Helena passport
• Turks and Caicos Islands passport

Visa requirements map

Visa requirements for British Overseas Territories Citizens

Visa requirements

Country	Visa requirement	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Afghanistan	Visa required[1]
Albania	Visa not required[2]	90 days
Algeria	Visa required[3]
Andorra	Visa not required[4]
Angola	Visa required[5]
Antigua and Barbuda	Visa not required[6]	6 months
Argentina	Visa not required[7]	90 days
Armenia	Visa required[8]
Australia	Visa required[9]	May apply online (Online Visitor e600 visa).
Austria	Visa not required[10]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Azerbaijan	Visa required[11]
Bahamas	Visa not required[12]	8 months
Bahrain	eVisa[13]
Bangladesh	Visa on arrival[14]	30 days
Barbados	Visa not required[15]	6 months
Belarus	Visa required[16]
Belgium	Visa not required[17]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Belize	Visa not required[18]	90 days
Benin	Visa required[19]
Bhutan	Visa required[20]
Bolivia	Visa not required[21]	90 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa not required[22]	90 days
Botswana	Visa not required[23]	90 days
Brazil	Visa not required[24]	90 days
Brunei	Visa required[25]
Bulgaria	Visa not required[26]	90 days within any 180 day period
Burkina Faso	Visa on arrival[27]	1 month
Burundi	Visa required[28][29]
Cambodia	Visa on arrival[30]	30 days
Cameroon	Visa required[31]
Canada	Visa not required[32]	6 months; eTA required if arriving by air.[33]
Cape Verde	Visa on arrival[34]
Central African Republic	Visa required[35]
Chad	Visa required[36]
Chile	Visa not required[37]	90 days
China	Visa required[38]
Colombia	Visa not required[39]	180 days
Comoros	Visa on arrival[40]
Republic of the Congo	Visa required[41]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Visa required[42]
Costa Rica	Visa not required[43]	90 days
Côte d'Ivoire	Visa required[44]
Croatia	Visa not required[45]	90 days within any 180 day period
Cuba	Visa required[46]
Cyprus	Visa not required[47]	90 days within any 180 day period
Czech Republic	Visa not required[48]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Denmark	Visa not required[49]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Djibouti	Visa on arrival[50]
Dominica	Visa not required[51]	6 months
Dominican Republic	Visa not required[52]
Ecuador	Visa not required[53]	90 days
Egypt	Visa required[54]
El Salvador	Visa not required[55]	3 months
Equatorial Guinea	Visa required[56]
Eritrea	Visa required[57]
Estonia	Visa not required[58]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Ethiopia	Visa required[59]
Fiji	Visa not required[60]	4 months
Finland	Visa not required[61]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
France	Visa not required[62]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Gabon	eVisa[63]	Electronic visa holders must arrive via Libreville International Airport.
Gambia	Visa not required[64]	90 days
Georgia	Visa not required[65]	Not applicable to holders of Anguillian passport, Montserratian passport, Pitcairn Islands passport and Saint Helena passport.[66]
Germany	Visa not required[67]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Ghana	Visa required[68]
Greece	Visa not required[69]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Grenada	Visa not required[70]	6 months
Guatemala	Visa not required[71]	90 days
Guinea	Visa required[72]
Guinea-Bissau	Visa on arrival[73]	90 days
Guyana	Visa required[74]	Holders of Montserratian passport are exempt.
Haiti	Visa not required[75]	3 months
Honduras	Visa not required[76]	90 days
Hungary	Visa not required[77]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Iceland	Visa not required[78]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
India	Visa required[79]	e-Tourist Visa for holders of Anguillian passport, Caymanian passport, Montserratian passport and Turks and Caicos Islands passport.
Indonesia	Visa not required[80]	30 days
Iran	Visa required[81]
Iraq	Visa required[82]
Ireland	Visa not required[83]
Israel	Visa not required[84]	3 months
Italy	Visa not required[85]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Jamaica	Visa not required[86]	Not applicable to holders of British Virgin Islands passport and Caymanian passport.
Japan	Visa required[87]
Jordan	Visa on arrival[88]
Kazakhstan	Visa not required[89]	15 days as part of the no-visa pilot program in period 15 July 2014 – 15 July 2015
Kenya	Visa on arrival[90]	3 months Can also be entered on a visa issued by Rwanda or Uganda.
Kiribati	Visa required[91]	Visa not required for holders of Bermudian passport, Caymanian passport, Montserratian passport, Turks and Caicos Islands passport.
North Korea	Visa required[92]
South Korea	Visa required[93]
Kuwait	Visa on arrival[94]	3 months
Kyrgyzstan	Visa required[95]
Laos	Visa on arrival[96]	30 days
Latvia	Visa not required[97]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Lebanon	Visa required[98]
Lesotho	Visa not required[99]
Liberia	Visa required[100]
Libya	Visa required[101]
Liechtenstein	Visa not required[102]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Lithuania	Visa not required[103]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Luxembourg	Visa not required[104]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Macedonia	Visa required[105]	Visa not required for holders of Gibraltar passport.
Madagascar	Visa on arrival[106]	90 days
Malawi	Visa on arrival[107]
Malaysia	Visa not required[108]	3 months
Maldives	Visa on arrival[109]	30 days
Mali	Visa required[110]
Malta	Visa not required[111]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Marshall Islands	Visa required[112]
Mauritania	Visa on arrival[113]	Available at Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport.
Mauritius	Visa not required[114]	90 days
Mexico	Visa required[115]
Micronesia	Visa not required[116]	30 days
Moldova	Visa not required[117]	90 days
Monaco	Visa not required[118]
Mongolia	Visa required[119]
Montenegro	Visa required[120]	Visa not required for holders of Bermudian passport.
Morocco	Visa required[121]
Mozambique	Visa on arrival[122]	30 days
Myanmar	eVisa[123]	28 days. eVisa holders must arrive via Yangon International Airport.
Namibia	Visa not required[124]	3 months
Nauru	Visa required[125]
Nepal	Visa on arrival[126]	90 days
Netherlands	Visa not required[127]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
New Zealand	Visa required[128]	Visa not required for holders of a Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode.
Nicaragua	Visa not required[129]	90 days
Niger	Visa required[130]
Nigeria	Visa required[131]
Norway	Visa not required[132]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Oman	Visa on arrival[133]
Pakistan	Visa required[134]
Palau	Visa on arrival[135]	30 days
Panama	Visa not required[136]	180 days
Papua New Guinea	Visa required[137]
Paraguay	Visa not required[138]	90 days
Peru	Visa not required[139]	183 days
Philippines	Visa not required[140]	30 days
Poland	Visa not required[141]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Portugal	Visa not required[142]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Qatar	Visa on arrival !Free visa on arrival[143]	30 days	Available at Hamad International Airport. eVisa is also available.
Romania	Visa not required[144]	90 days within any 180 day period
Russia	Visa required[145]
Rwanda	Visa not required[146]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Visa not required[147]	6 months
Saint Lucia	Visa not required[148]	6 weeks
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Visa not required[149]	6 months
Samoa	Visa on arrival !Entry Permit on arrival[150]	60 days
San Marino	Visa not required[151]
São Tomé and Príncipe	Visa required[152]
Saudi Arabia	Visa required[153]
Senegal	Visa not required[154]	90 days
Serbia	Visa not required[155]
Seychelles	Visa on arrival !Visitor's Permit on arrival[156]	3 months
Sierra Leone	Visa required[157]
Singapore	Visa not required[158]	30 days. 90 days for holders of a Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode.
Slovakia	Visa not required[159]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Slovenia	Visa not required[160]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Solomon Islands	Visa on arrival[161]
Somalia	Visa on arrival[162]	30 days, provided an invitation letter issued by the sponsor has been submitted to the Airport Immigration Department at least 2 days before arrival.
South Africa	Visa not required[163]	90 days
South Sudan	Visa required[164]
Spain	Visa not required[165]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Sri Lanka	Electronic Travel Authorization[166]	30 days
Sudan	Visa required[167]
Suriname	Visa required[168]	Holders of Montserratian passport are exempt.
Swaziland	Visa not required[169]	30 days
Sweden	Visa not required[170]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Switzerland	Visa not required[171]	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Syria	Visa required[172]
Tajikistan	Visa required[173]
Tanzania	Visa on arrival[174]	Visa not required for holders of Anguillian passport, British Virgin Islands passport, Bermudian passport, Caymanian passport and Turks and Caicos Islands passport.[175]
Thailand	Visa required[176]
Timor-Leste	Visa on arrival[177]	30 days
Togo	Visa on arrival[178]	7 days
Tonga	Visa on arrival[179]	31 days
Trinidad and Tobago	Visa not required[180]
Tunisia	Visa not required[181]	3 months
Turkey	eVisa[182]	90 days
Turkmenistan	Visa required[183]
Tuvalu	Visa on arrival[184]	1 month
Uganda	Visa on arrival[185]	May apply online.[186] Can also be entered on a visa issued by Kenya or Rwanda.
Ukraine	Visa required[187]
United Arab Emirates	Visa required[188]	Visa on arrival for holders of a Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode.
United Kingdom	Visa not required[189]	Not all British overseas Territories passport holders have the right of abode in the UK.
United States	Visa required[190]	Visa not required for holders of Bermudian passport and for holders of Caymanian passport and Turks and Caicos Islands passport arriving directly from the Cayman Islands or Turks and Caicos Islands and holding a current certificate from the Clerk of the Court, indicating no criminal record. British Virgin Islands passport holders can travel to United States Virgin Islands and then continue travel to other parts of the United States if they present a Certificate of Good Conduct issued by the Royal Virgin Islands Police Department indicating no criminal record.
Uruguay	Visa not required[191]	90 days
Uzbekistan	Visa required[192]
Vanuatu	Visa not required[193]	30 days
Vatican City	Visa not required[194]
Venezuela	Visa not required[195]	90 days
Vietnam	Visa required[196]
Yemen	Visa required[197]
Zambia	Visa not required[198]	90 days
Zimbabwe	Visa required[199]	Visa not required for holders of Anguillian passport, Caymanian passport, Montserratian passport, Turks and Caicos Islands passport.

Territories

Visa requirements for British overseas territories citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries and restricted zones:

Europe

•  Abkhazia – Visa required.^[200]
• Mount Athos – Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.^[201][202]
• Crimea – Visa issued by Russia is required.^[203]
•  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus – Visa free access for 3 months.^[204]
• UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus – Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.^[205]
•  Faroe Islands – Visa not required.^[206]
• Jan Mayen – permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours^[207] and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.^[208]
•  Kosovo – Visa not required for 90 days.^[209]
•  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic – Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months).^[210][211] Travellers with Nagorno-Karabakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Nagorno-Karabakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.^[212]
• Closed cities and regions in Russia – special authorization required.^[213]
•  South Ossetia – Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.^[214][215]
•  Transnistria – Visa free. Registration required after 24h.^[216][217]

Africa

•  Eritrea (outside Asmara) – visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).^[218]
•  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) – Visa not required up to 3 months.^[219]
•  Somaliland – Visa issued on arrival (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).^[220][221]
•  Sudan – All foreigners traveling more than 25 kilometers outside of Khartoum must obtain a travel permit.
• Darfur – Separate travel permit is required.^[222]

Asia

•  Hong Kong – Visa not required for 3 months.^[223]
•  India – Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for whole states of Nagaland and Sikkim and parts of states Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.^{[224][225][226][227][228][229]}
•  Kazakhstan – Special permission required for the town of Baikonur and surrounding areas in Kyzylorda Oblast, and the town of Gvardeyskiy near Almaty.^[230]
• Kish Island – Visitors to Kish Island do not require a visa.^[231]
•  Macao – Visa not required for 6 months.^[232]
• Sabah and Sarawak – These states have their own immigration authorities and passport is required to travel to them, however the same visa applies.^[233]
• Maldives – With the exception of the capital Malé, tourists are generally prohibited from visiting non-resort islands without the express permission of the Government of Maldives.^[234]
•  North Korea People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
•  Palestine – Visa not required. Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.^[235][236]
•  Taiwan – Visa required.^[237]
• Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province – OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.^{[238][239][240]}
•  Turkmenistan – A special permit, issued prior to arrival by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is required if visiting the following places: Atamurat, Cheleken, Dashoguz, Serakhs and Serhetabat.^[241]
• Tibet Autonomous Region – Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).^{[242][243][244]}
• Korean Demilitarized Zone – restricted zone.
• UNDOF Zone and Ghajar – restricted zones.
• Phú Quốc – can visit without a visa for up to 30 days.^[245]
•  Yemen – Special permission needed for travel outside Sana’a or Aden.^[246]

Caribbean and North Atlantic

•  Aruba – Visa not required for 30 days.^[247]
• Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba – Visa not required for 3 months.^[248]
•  Colombia – Visitors arriving at San Andrés and Leticia must buy tourist cards on arrival.^[249]
•  Curacao – Visa not required for 3 months.^[250]
•  Greenland – Visa not required.^[251]
• Margarita Island – All visitors are fingerprinted.^[252]
•  Saint Pierre and Miquelon – Visa not required.^[253]
•  Sint Maarten – Visa not required for 3 months.^[254]

Oceania

•  American Samoa – Visa required.^[255]
• Ashmore and Cartier Islands – special authorisation required.^[256]
• Clipperton Island – special permit required.^[257]
•  Cook Islands – Visa free access for 31 days.^[258]
• Lau Province – Special permission required.^[259]
•  French Polynesia – Visa not required.^[260]
•  New Caledonia – Visa not required for 3 months.^[261]
•  Niue – Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.^[262]
• United States Minor Outlying Islands – special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.^{[263][264][265][266][267][268][269]}
•  Wallis and Futuna – Visa not required.^[270]

South Atlantic and Antarctica

• Antarctica and adjacent islands – special permits required for  French Southern and Antarctic Lands,  Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land, Ross Dependency.^{[271][272][273][274][275][276][277][278][279][280][281]}

Non-visa restrictions

Passport validity length

Many countries require passports to be valid for at least 6 months upon arrival and to have at least one or two blank pages for stamping.^[282]

Countries requiring passports to be valid at least 6 months on arrival include Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain, Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq (except when arriving at Basra and Erbil or Sulaimaniyah), Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe.^[283]

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

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include European Union countries (except Denmark, Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and except for EU/EEA/Swiss citizens), Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Honduras, Iceland, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Nauru, Panama, Saint Barthélemy, San Marino, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.

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

Countries that require a passport validity of at least 1 month on arrival include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Macao, New Zealand and South Africa.^[284]

Other countries require either a passport valid on arrival or a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.

Vaccination

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area.^[285]

Israeli stamps

Iran,^[286] Kuwait,^[287] Lebanon,^[288] Libya,^[289] Saudi Arabia,^[290] Sudan,^[291] Syria^[292] and Yemen^[293] 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. Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport, giving passengers a card instead: "Since January 2013 a pilot scheme has been introduced whereby visitors are given an entry card instead of an entry stamp on arrival. You should keep this card with your passport until you leave. This is evidence of your legal entry into Israel and may be required, particularly at any crossing points into the Occupied Palestinian Territories." ^[294] Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017) stamped at Erez when travelling into and out of Gaza. Also, passports are still stamped (as of 22 June 2017) at the Jordan Valley/Sheikh Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin/Arava land borders with Jordan.

Armenian ethnicity

Due to a state of war existing between the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the government of Azerbaijan not only bans entry of citizens from Armenia, but also all citizens and nationals of any other country who are of Armenian descent, to the Republic of Azerbaijan^[295][296] (although there have been exceptions, notably for Armenia's participation at the 2015 European Games held in Azerbaijan).

Azerbaijan also strictly bans any visit by foreign citizens to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh^[297] (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding territories and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı and Sofulu which are de jure part of Azerbaijan but under control of Armenia, without the prior consent of the government of Azerbaijan. Foreign citizens who enter these occupied territories, will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae".^[298]

Upon request, the Republic of Artsakh authorities may attach their visa and/or stamps to a separate piece of paper in order to avoid detection of travel to their country.

Persona non grata

The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning their entry into that country. 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. Attempts to enter the Gaza strip by sea may attract a 10-year ban on entering Israel.^[299]

See also

• Visa policy of the British Overseas Territories
• Visa requirements for British citizens
• Visa requirements for British Overseas Citizens
• Visa requirements for British Nationals (Overseas)
• British Overseas Territories Citizens in the United Kingdom

References