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Visa requirements for São Tomé and Príncipe passport holders
Citizens of São Tomé and Príncipe can visit 23 of 176 destinations visa-free and 73 more with an eTA, eVisa or visa on arrival.
Last checked . Policies change. Confirm with the embassy or official visa portal before you travel.
23
Visa-free
3
eTA
23
Visa on arrival
2
Pre-approval + VOA
45
eVisa
80
Embassy / VFS
Visa-free
No visa needed — just go- Bahamas90 days
- Benin90 days
- Cape Verde30 days
- Costa Rica90 days
- Dominica90 days
- Ecuador90 days
- El Salvador90 days
- Gambia
- Ghana60 days
- Guatemala90 days
- Haiti90 days
- Honduras
- Malaysia30 days
- Micronesia30 days
- Mozambique
- Panama90 days
- Philippines30 days
- Rwanda90 days
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines30 days
- Samoa90 days
- Singapore30 days
- South Africa30 days
- Zambia90 days
eTA
Electronic travel authorization (online)Visa on arrival
Get your visa at the border- Bangladesh30 days
- Bolivia30 days
- Burundi
- Cambodia30 days
- Comoros45 days
- Egypt
- Ethiopia30 days
- Guinea-Bissau30 days
- Iran30 days
- Jordan
- Madagascar30 days
- Malawi30 days
- Maldives
- Mauritius60 days
- Namibia90 days
- Nepal15 days
- Palau30 days
- Saint Lucia42 days
- Seychelles90 days
- Tanzania90 days
- Timor-Leste30 days
- Tuvalu30 days
- Zimbabwe30 days
Pre-approval + VOA
Approve online, collect at arrivaleVisa
Fully online — no office visit- Afghanistan30 days
- Albania90 days
- Angola30 days
- Antigua and Barbuda30 days
- Bahrain30 days
- Bhutan90 days
- Botswana90 days
- Burkina Faso30 days
- Chad90 days
- Colombia30 days
- Cuba30 days
- Djibouti31 days
- DR Congo30 days
- Equatorial Guinea90 days
- Fiji30 days
- Gabon
- Georgia90 days
- Guinea30 days
- Indonesia30 days
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan30 days
- Laos30 days
- Liberia30 days
- Libya30 days
- Mauritania30 days
- Moldova90 days
- Mongolia30 days
- Morocco
- New Zealand90 days
- Nigeria30 days
- Oman
- Pakistan30 days
- Qatar30 days
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Sierra Leone30 days
- Somalia30 days
- South Sudan30 days
- Syria30 days
- Thailand60 days
- Togo15 days
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Venezuela90 days
- Vietnam90 days
Embassy / VFS
In-person at an embassy or visa center- Algeria
- Andorra90 days
- Armenia90 days
- Azerbaijan
- Barbados30 days
- Belarus
- Belgium90 days
- Belize30 days
- Bosnia and Herzegovina90 days
- Brazil
- Brunei14 days
- Bulgaria90 days
- Canada180 days
- Central African Republic
- Chile30 days
- China30 days
- Croatia90 days
- Cyprus90 days
- Czech Republic90 days
- Denmark90 days
- Dominican Republic30 days
- Eritrea30 days
- Estonia
- Eswatini30 days
- Finland90 days
- France90 days
- Germany
- Greece90 days
- Grenada90 days
- Guyana
- Ireland90 days
- Israel
- Italy90 days
- Jamaica
- Japan30 days
- Kiribati
- Latvia90 days
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein90 days
- Luxembourg90 days
- Mali30 days
- Malta90 days
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico180 days
- Monaco90 days
- Montenegro
- Myanmar28 days
- Nauru
- Nicaragua90 days
- Niger30 days
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Paraguay90 days
- Poland90 days
- Portugal
- Romania90 days
- Russia30 days
- San Marino90 days
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia90 days
- Slovakia90 days
- Slovenia90 days
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea30 days
- Spain90 days
- Sudan
- Sweden90 days
- Switzerland90 days
- Tajikistan
- Tonga30 days
- Tunisia30 days
- Türkiye90 days
- Ukraine30 days
- United States180 days
- Uruguay30 days
- Uzbekistan30 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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