What the Antigua and Barbuda visa rules mean for Solomon Islands travellers
Solomon Islands citizens can enter Antigua and Barbuda without a visa and stay for up to 180 days. You only need a valid Solomon Islands passport at the border; immigration officers may still ask for a return or onward ticket, proof of accommodation and enough money for your stay. The 180-day limit usually counts calendar days from your arrival, so book your return flight inside that window.
The main option is the Extension of stay, which costs 150 XCD.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Antigua and Barbuda applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: The Immigration Department says a visitor's passport must be valid beyond the date of their return ticket. For an eVisa application it asks for a travel document valid for at least 6 months from the date you intend to e…
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: WHO lists Antigua and Barbuda as requiring proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers aged one year and over arriving from countries determined by WHO to be at risk of yellow fever transmission, including travell…
- Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for Antigua and Barbuda. The UK government tells travellers to check before they travel that they have appropriate travel insurance for local treatm…
- Return or onward ticket: The Immigration Department says visa-exempt visitors must have an onward or return ticket and confirmation of accommodation.
Antigua and Barbuda entry rules compared
Antigua and Barbuda lets 103 passports in without a visa, issues eVisas to 95. Solomon Islands citizens are treated the same way as Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru and New Zealand. Overall the Solomon Islands passport ranks #71 in the world with 86 visa-free destinations.
More travel options
Planning a longer trip in Americas? With a Solomon Islands passport you can also visit 20 countries in the region without a visa, including Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic and Ecuador.
In the other direction, Antigua and Barbuda citizens need evisa to visit Solomon Islands.