Visafar / Canada
Canada visa requirements by passport
54 passports can visit Canada without applying for a visa (53 of them need an online travel authorisation first). Find yours below, then how to apply if you need a visa. Every passport here was checked at Canada's official sources.
Visa-free 1
- 🇺🇸 United States
Electronic travel authorisation 53
- 🇦🇩 Andorra
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇧🇸 Bahamas
- 🇧🇧 Barbados
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- 🇧🇳 Brunei
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- 🇨🇱 Chile
- 🇭🇷 Croatia
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus
- 🇨🇿 Czechia
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- 🇪🇪 Estonia
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- 🇮🇸 Iceland
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- 🇱🇻 Latvia
- 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- 🇲🇹 Malta
- 🇲🇨 Monaco
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- 🇶🇦 Qatar
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- 🇼🇸 Samoa
- 🇸🇲 San Marino
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- 🇸🇰 Slovakia
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia
- 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- 🇻🇦 Vatican City
Visa needed 144
- 🇦🇫 Afghanistan
- 🇦🇱 Albania
- 🇩🇿 Algeria
- 🇦🇴 Angola
- 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- 🇦🇲 Armenia
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
- 🇧🇭 Bahrain
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
- 🇧🇾 Belarus
- 🇧🇿 Belize
- 🇧🇯 Benin
- 🇧🇹 Bhutan
- 🇧🇴 Bolivia
- 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 🇧🇼 Botswana
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
- 🇧🇮 Burundi
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia
- 🇨🇲 Cameroon
- 🇨🇻 Cape Verde
- 🇨🇫 Central African Republic
- 🇹🇩 Chad
- 🇨🇳 China
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- 🇰🇲 Comoros
- 🇨🇬 Congo
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- 🇨🇺 Cuba
- 🇩🇯 Djibouti
- 🇩🇲 Dominica
- 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
- 🇨🇩 DR Congo
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- 🇪🇬 Egypt
- 🇸🇻 El Salvador
- 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
- 🇪🇷 Eritrea
- 🇸🇿 Eswatini
- 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
- 🇫🇯 Fiji
- 🇬🇦 Gabon
- 🇬🇲 Gambia
- 🇬🇪 Georgia
- 🇬🇭 Ghana
- 🇬🇩 Grenada
- 🇬🇹 Guatemala
- 🇬🇳 Guinea
- 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
- 🇬🇾 Guyana
- 🇭🇹 Haiti
- 🇭🇳 Honduras
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- 🇮🇷 Iran
- 🇮🇶 Iraq
- 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
- 🇯🇲 Jamaica
- 🇯🇴 Jordan
- 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
- 🇰🇪 Kenya
- 🇰🇮 Kiribati
- 🇽🇰 Kosovo
- 🇰🇼 Kuwait
- 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
- 🇱🇦 Laos
- 🇱🇧 Lebanon
- 🇱🇸 Lesotho
- 🇱🇷 Liberia
- 🇱🇾 Libya
- 🇲🇴 Macau
- 🇲🇬 Madagascar
- 🇲🇼 Malawi
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- 🇲🇻 Maldives
- 🇲🇱 Mali
- 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
- 🇲🇷 Mauritania
- 🇲🇺 Mauritius
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- 🇫🇲 Micronesia
- 🇲🇩 Moldova
- 🇲🇳 Mongolia
- 🇲🇪 Montenegro
- 🇲🇦 Morocco
- 🇲🇿 Mozambique
- 🇲🇲 Myanmar
- 🇳🇦 Namibia
- 🇳🇷 Nauru
- 🇳🇵 Nepal
- 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
- 🇳🇪 Niger
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
- 🇴🇲 Oman
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan
- 🇵🇼 Palau
- 🇵🇸 Palestine
- 🇵🇦 Panama
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay
- 🇵🇪 Peru
- 🇵🇭 Philippines
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- 🇷🇼 Rwanda
- 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
- 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
- 🇸🇳 Senegal
- 🇷🇸 Serbia
- 🇸🇨 Seychelles
- 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
- 🇸🇴 Somalia
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- 🇸🇸 South Sudan
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- 🇸🇩 Sudan
- 🇸🇷 Suriname
- 🇸🇾 Syria
- 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania
- 🇹🇭 Thailand
- 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
- 🇹🇬 Togo
- 🇹🇴 Tonga
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
- 🇹🇳 Tunisia
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye
- 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
- 🇹🇻 Tuvalu
- 🇺🇬 Uganda
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay
- 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
- 🇻🇺 Vanuatu
- 🇻🇪 Venezuela
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam
- 🇾🇪 Yemen
- 🇿🇲 Zambia
- 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
How to apply: Canada electronic travel authorization (eTA)
For visa-exempt passports flying to Canada. Not needed if you arrive by land or sea.
Online on the Government of Canada's official eTA page. Your eTA is linked to the passport you apply with; the airline scans that passport at check-in, so check the passport number in your approval email matches exactly.
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Documents
- A valid passport from a visa-exempt country or territory
- A valid email address
- A payment card for the CA$7 fee
Source: canada.ca ↗, read 10 November 2026.
Validity and stay
- eTA: valid Linked to the passport you apply with, Set by the border officer
Fee: eTA: CA$7. Non-refundable. Other websites may charge more; canada.ca is the official one.
Processing time
In most cases an email within minutes; some applications take several days, with an email within 72 hours.
How to apply: Canada visitor visa
For passports on Canada's visa-required list.
Apply online through the IRCC Portal. In most cases you then give your fingerprints and photo (biometrics). The portal gives you a personalised document checklist, and your local visa office may ask for more.
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Documents
- A clear colour copy of your passport, valid at least 6 months from your travel date: the page with your birth date and country, and any pages with stamps, visas or markings
- A letter authorising a minor child to travel (if applicable)
- The documents on your personalised checklist in the IRCC Portal
Source: canada.ca ↗, read 10 November 2026.
Validity and stay
- Individual: valid Set by IRCC, Set by the border officer
- Family (5 or more people): valid Set by IRCC, Set by the border officer
Fee: Individual: CA$100 + CA$85 biometrics; Family (5 or more people): CA$500 + up to CA$170 biometrics. Some applicants are exempt from some or all fees.
Processing time
The official source doesn't state a processing time, so apply well before you plan to travel.
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Not travel advice. Rules change and the border officer decides; confirm at Canada's official sources before you travel. Updated 2026-11-10.