Visa requirements for Chilean citizens

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Visa requirements for Chilean citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Chile entering with a Chilean passport.

A Chilean identity card is valid for travel to most South American countries

As of 2026, Chilean citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 174 countries and territories, ranking the Chilean passport 13rd in the world according to the Henley Passport Index.[1] The Chilean passport is the most powerful passport in Latin America and is the 3rd most powerful overall in the Americas, according to the Henley Passport Index.[2]

As of 2026, the passports of Chile, Brunei, South Korea, and Israel are the only ones to allow visa-free access to all G8 countries.

Chile is also currently the only Latin American country that has both visa-waiver access to the United States and visa-free access to Canada. In addition, citizens of Chile do not need a passport when traveling to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, or Uruguay, where they may just use their Cédula de Identidad or identity cards.[3]

Visa requirements map

Visa requirements for Chilean citizens holding ordinary passports
  Chile
  Visa not required / ESTA / ETA
  Visa on arrival
  eVisa
  Visa available both on arrival or online
  Visa required

Visa requirements

Visa requirements for holders of normal passports travelling for tourist purposes:

Chile is an associated member of Mercosur. As such, its citizens enjoy unlimited access to any of the Mercosur full members countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay or Uruguay and the other associated member countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru with the right to residence and work, with no requirement other than nationality.

Citizens of these nine countries (including Chile) may apply for a grant of "temporary residence" for up to 2 years in another country of the bloc.[4] Then, they may apply for "permanent residence" just before the term of their "temporary residence" expires.[5][6]

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Territories or administrative subdivisions with different visa policies

Visa requirements for Chilean citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries not mentioned in the list above, recognized administrative subdivisions that operate on different visa policies and restricted zones:

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Visitor toVisa requirementAllowed stayNotes (excluding departure fees)
Africa
Eritrea outside Asmara Travel permit required
  • Travel Permit for Foreigners is required to travel outside of the capital.[332]
Ascension Island eVisa[333][334] 3 months
  • 3 months within any 1-year period.
Saint Helena Visa not required
  • Visitor's Pass granted on arrival.[335]
Tristan da Cunha Permission required
Mayotte Visa not required[337] 90 days
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Undefined
Somaliland Visa required[338]
Réunion Visa not required[339] 90 days
Sudan outside Khartoum Travel permit required
  • All foreigners traveling more than 25 kilometers outside of Khartoum must obtain a travel permit.
Sudan Darfur Travel permit required
  • Separate travel permit is required.[340]
Asia
British Indian Ocean Territory Special permit required
  • Special permit required.[341]
China Hainan Visa not required[342] 30 days
Hong Kong Visa not required[343] 90 days
India Protected and restricted areas of India PAP/RAP required
Iraqi Kurdistan Visa required
Kazakhstan Baikonur & Priozersk Special permission required
Iran Kish Island Visa not required 14 days
Macau Visa not required[352] 30 days
Malaysia Sabah and Sarawak Visa not required
  • These states have their own immigration authorities and a passport is required to travel to them, but the same visa applies.[353]
Maldives outside Malé Permission required
  • Tourists are generally prohibited from visiting non-resort islands without the express permission of the Government of the Maldives.[354]
Palestine Visa not required
Taiwan Visa not required[356] 90 days
Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province OIVR permit required
China Tibet Autonomous Region TTP required
  • Tibet Travel Permit required in addition to Chinese visa.[360]
Saudi Arabia Mecca and Medina Special access required Non-Muslims and those following the Ahmadiyya religious movement are strictly prohibited from entry.[361]
Turkmenistan Closed cities of Turkmenistan Special permit required
Vietnam Phú Quốc Visa not required 30 days[363]
Yemen outside Sanaa or Aden Special permission required
Caribbean and North Atlantic
Åland Islands Visa not required[364] 3 months
Anguilla Visa not required 3 months[365]
Aruba Visa not required[366][367] 30 days
Bermuda Visa not required[368] 6 months
Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba) Visa not required 180 days
British Virgin Islands Visa not required 30 days
Cayman Islands Visa not required 6 months[369]
Colombia San Andrés and Leticia Tourist Card on arrival
Curaçao Visa not required 6 months
  • Maximum consecutive period of six months each calendar year.[371]
France French West Indies (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy) Visa not required 3 months
Greenland Visa not required[372]
Montserrat Visa not required 6 months
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Electronic System for Travel Authorization[373] 90 days
  • Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.
Sint Maarten Visa not required 6 months
  • Maximum stay allowed is 6 months uninterrupted with the possibility to extend[374][375]
Turks and Caicos Islands Visa not required 90 days[376]
United States Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands Electronic System for Travel Authorization[377] 90 days
  • Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.
Europe
Abkhazia Visa required[378]
  • Tourists from all countries (except Georgia) can visit Abkhazia for a period not exceeding 24 hours as part of an organized tourist group.
Belarus Brest and Grodno Visa not required
[may be outdated as of February 2022]
10 days[379]
Crimea Visa not required
[may be outdated as of February 2022]
  • Russian visa policy applies.
Novorossiya Restricted area
[may be outdated as of February 2022]
  • Crossing from Ukraine requires visit purpose to be explained to Ukrainian passport control on exit and those who entered from Russia are not allowed to proceed further into Ukraine.[380]
Northern Cyprus Visa not required 3 months[381]
Faroe Islands Visa not required[372]
Gibraltar Visa not required[382]
Guernsey Visa not required[383]
Isle of Man Visa not required[384]
Norway Jan Mayen Permit required[382] 24 hours
  • Permit issued by the local police required for stays less than 24 hours[385]
  • Permit issued by the Norwegian police required for stays of more than 24 hours.[386]
Jersey Visa not required[387]
Russia Closed cities of Russia Special authorization required
South Ossetia Visa required
  • To enter South Ossetia, visitors must have a multiple-entry visa for Russia and register their stay with the Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs within 3 days.[389][390]
Svalbard Visa not required[391] Unlimited
  • Anyone of any nationality may live and work freely in Svalbard per the Svalbard Treaty.
Transnistria Visa not required 24 hours
Oceania
American Samoa American Samoa Electronic authorization[394] 30 days
Australia Ashmore and Cartier Islands Special authorisation required
  • Special authorisation required.[395]
France Clipperton Island Special permit required
  • Special permit required.[396]
Cook Islands Visa not required 31 days[397]
Fiji Lau Province Special permission required
  • Special permission required.
French Polynesia Visa not required[398] 90 days
  • 90 days within any 180-day period.[399]
Guam Guam Electronic System for Travel Authorization[400] 90 days
Niue Visa not required 30 days[401]
New Caledonia New Caledonia Visa not required[402] 90 days
  • 90 days within any 180-day period[403]
Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands Electronic System for Travel Authorization 90 days
Pitcairn Islands Visa not required[404] 14 days
Tokelau Entry permit required[405]
South America
ArgentinaMisiones Province Isla Apipé and Isla del medio Visa not required 90 days
  • By being Argentine territories, the same visa policy applies.
Galápagos Pre-registration required 60 days
  • Visitors must pre-register to receive a 20 USD Transit Control Card (TCT).[406]
France French Guiana Visa not required 3 months[407] International Certificate of Vaccination required.
South Atlantic and Antarctica
Falkland Islands Visa not required[408] 1 month
  • A visitor permit is normally issued as a stamp in the passport on arrival.
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Permit required
Antarctica Special permits required
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Pre-approved visas pick-up

Pre-approved visas can be picked up on arrival in the following countries instead in embassy or consulate.

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Pre-approved
visas pick-up
on arrival
Conditions
Bhutan[423] For a maximum stay of 15 days if the application was submitted at least 2 and a half months before arrival and if the clearance was obtained.
Cameroon[424] Must hold approval from the General Delegate of Security.
Eritrea[425] Must have a sponsor who must submit an application at least 48 hours before arrival.
Liberia[426] Available only if arriving from a country without a diplomatic mission of Liberia and if a sponsor obtained an approval.
Nigeria[427] Holders of a visa application who have a Nigerian company taking responsibility for them.
Sudan[428] Holders of an entry permit issued by the Ministry of Interior.
Turkmenistan[429] Holders of an invitation letter of the local company that was approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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APEC Business Travel Card

  Full members of the scheme
  Transitional members (United States, Canada)

Holders of an APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) travelling on business do not require a visa to the following countries:[430]

1 - Up to 180 days
2 - Up to 90 days
3 - Up to 90 days in a period of 180 days
4 - Up to 60 days

The card must be used in conjunction with a passport and has the following advantages:[431]

  • No need to apply for a visa or entry permit to APEC countries, as the card is treated as such (except by Canada and United States)
  • Undertake legitimate business in participating economies
  • Expedited border crossing in all member economies, including transitional members

Non-visa restrictions

Blank passport pages

Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages.[432] Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being valid or available.

Vaccination

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

The African countries of Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone and Togo, South Sudan and Uganda, along with French Guiana in South America, require all incoming passengers older than nine months to one year[433], to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis.[434]

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, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[435][436]

Passport validity length

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[437][438] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).[439]

Some countries, such as Japan,[440] Ireland and the United Kingdom,[441] 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,[442] 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,[443] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru,[444] Philippines,[445] 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.[446]

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[447] and South Africa.

Maximum passport age

Countries of the Schengen area require non-EU passports to be less than 10 years old upon entry.[448]

Criminal record

Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,[449] 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

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.[450]

Israeli stamps

Kuwait,[451] Lebanon,[452] Libya,[453] and Yemen[454] 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

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.[455]

Fingerprinting countries/regions include Afghanistan,[456][457] Argentina,[458] Brunei, Cambodia,[459] China,[460] Ethiopia,[461] Ghana, Guinea,[462] India, Japan,[463][464] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),[465] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[466] Mongolia, Saudi Arabia,[467] the Schengen Area,[468] Singapore, South Korea,[469] Taiwan, Thailand,[470] Uganda,[471] 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),[472][473][474] intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.[475]

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[476] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.[477][478] The United States Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to greatly increase the biometric data it collects at US borders.[479] In 2018, Singapore began trials of iris scanning at three land and maritime immigration checkpoints.[480][481]

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