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Visa requirements for Cape Verde passport holders
Citizens of Cape Verde can visit 33 of 176 destinations visa-free and 57 more with an eTA, eVisa or visa on arrival.
Last checked . Policies change. Confirm with the embassy or official visa portal before you travel.
33
Visa-free
3
eTA
18
Visa on arrival
2
Pre-approval + VOA
34
eVisa
86
Embassy / VFS
Visa-free
No visa needed — just go- Angola90 days
- Bahamas90 days
- Barbados
- Benin90 days
- Burkina Faso
- Côte d'Ivoire90 days
- Dominica21 days
- Gambia90 days
- Ghana90 days
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti90 days
- Liberia
- Malaysia30 days
- Mali
- Mauritius90 days
- Micronesia30 days
- Morocco90 days
- Mozambique30 days
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Philippines30 days
- Russia60 days
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines90 days
- São Tomé and Príncipe30 days
- Senegal90 days
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore30 days
- South Africa30 days
- Timor-Leste30 days
- Togo
- Tunisia90 days
- Zambia90 days
eTA
Electronic travel authorization (online)Visa on arrival
Get your visa at the borderPre-approval + VOA
Approve online, collect at arrivaleVisa
Fully online — no office visit- Afghanistan
- Albania90 days
- Bahrain30 days
- Bhutan90 days
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia90 days
- Cuba30 days
- Djibouti31 days
- DR Congo7 days
- Equatorial Guinea30 days
- Georgia30 days
- India60 days
- Iraq30 days
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan60 days
- Laos30 days
- Libya30 days
- Mauritania30 days
- Moldova
- Mongolia30 days
- New Zealand273 days
- Nicaragua30 days
- Pakistan30 days
- Papua New Guinea30 days
- Qatar30 days
- Saint Kitts and Nevis30 days
- Somalia30 days
- South Sudan
- Syria90 days
- Thailand
- Uzbekistan30 days
- Venezuela
- Vietnam90 days
Embassy / VFS
In-person at an embassy or visa center- Algeria
- Andorra90 days
- Argentina90 days
- Armenia
- Belarus90 days
- Belize30 days
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana30 days
- Brunei
- Bulgaria90 days
- Central African Republic
- Chile90 days
- China30 days
- Costa Rica30 days
- Croatia90 days
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic90 days
- Denmark90 days
- Dominican Republic30 days
- Egypt30 days
- El Salvador30 days
- Eritrea
- Estonia90 days
- Eswatini30 days
- Fiji
- Finland90 days
- France90 days
- Germany90 days
- Greece90 days
- Grenada30 days
- Guatemala30 days
- Guyana
- Honduras30 days
- Hungary90 days
- Iceland90 days
- Indonesia30 days
- Ireland90 days
- Israel90 days
- Italy90 days
- Jamaica90 days
- Japan30 days
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati30 days
- Latvia90 days
- Lebanon30 days
- Liechtenstein90 days
- Lithuania90 days
- Luxembourg90 days
- Malta90 days
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico180 days
- Monaco90 days
- Montenegro30 days
- Myanmar28 days
- Nauru
- Netherlands90 days
- North Korea
- Oman
- Panama
- Paraguay90 days
- Peru90 days
- Poland90 days
- Portugal90 days
- Republic of the Congo30 days
- Romania90 days
- San Marino90 days
- Saudi Arabia90 days
- Serbia90 days
- Slovakia90 days
- Slovenia90 days
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea30 days
- Spain90 days
- Sudan30 days
- Sweden90 days
- Switzerland90 days
- Tonga30 days
- Trinidad and Tobago30 days
- Türkiye30 days
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United States180 days
- Uruguay90 days
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City90 days
- Yemen
What the categories mean
- Visa-freeNo visa needed — just go
- eTAElectronic travel authorization (online)
- Visa on arrivalGet your visa at the border
- Pre-approval + VOAApprove online, collect at arrival
- eVisaFully online — no office visit
- Embassy / VFSIn-person at an embassy or visa center
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