Bosnia and Herzegovina visa requirements · checked 26 September 2026
Visa & Entry Requirements for Bosnia and HerzegovinaMost travellers need a visa for Bosnia and Herzegovina: 100 of 198 passports must apply at an embassy or consulate, while 98 passports enter visa-free.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency lists the countries whose citizens do not require a visa to enter — among them Australia, Canada, China, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States — and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says nationals of EU member states and Schengen signatory states may enter with a passport or a valid identity card. The ministry says citizens of Ukraine need no visa for up to 30 days within two months of first entry, and that Russian citizens may stay up to 30 days without a visa with a tourist voucher, and need a verified invitation letter or a tourist voucher to stay up to 90 days. Citizens of countries under a visa regime may enter without a visa if they hold a valid multiple-entry visa or residence permit issued by a Schengen state, an EU member state or the United States, for single stays of up to 30 days; visas are issued at Bosnia and Herzegovina's diplomatic and consular missions abroad.
Do I need a visa for Bosnia and Herzegovina? Quick answers
United States
Visa-free
90 days
United Kingdom
Visa-free
90 days
Germany
Visa-free
90 days
India
Visa required
China
Visa-free
90 days
Canada
Visa-free
90 days
Australia
Visa-free
90 days
Poland
Visa-free
90 days
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Visa for Bosnia and Herzegovina — requirements summaryAll travellers must meet the entry rules set by Bosnia and Herzegovina, and they depend on your nationality. Find your passport below — you may be able to enter visa-free, or need an eVisa, a visa on arrival or a visa from an embassy.
| Passport | Requirement | Max stay | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
 Afghanistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Albania |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Algeria |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Andorra |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Angola |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Antigua and Barbuda |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Argentina |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Armenia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
| Australia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Austria |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Azerbaijan |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Bahamas |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Bahrain |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Bangladesh |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Barbados |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Belarus |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Belgium |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Belize |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Benin |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Bhutan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Bolivia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Botswana |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Brazil |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Brunei |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Bulgaria |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Burkina Faso |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Burundi |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Cambodia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Cameroon |
Visa required | — | Details → |
| Canada |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Cape Verde |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Central African Republic |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Chad |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Chile |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| China |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Colombia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Comoros |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Costa Rica |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Côte d'Ivoire |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Croatia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Cuba |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Cyprus |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Czechia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Denmark |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Djibouti |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Dominica |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Dominican Republic |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 DR Congo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ecuador |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Egypt |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 El Salvador |
Visa-free | — | Details → |
 Equatorial Guinea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Eritrea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Estonia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Eswatini |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ethiopia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Fiji |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Finland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 France |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Gabon |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Gambia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Georgia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| Germany |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Ghana |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Greece |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Grenada |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Guatemala |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Guinea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Guinea-Bissau |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Guyana |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Haiti |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Honduras |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Hong Kong |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Hungary |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Iceland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| India |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Indonesia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Iran |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Iraq |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ireland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Israel |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Italy |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Jamaica |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Japan |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Jordan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kazakhstan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kenya |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kiribati |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Kosovo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Kuwait |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Kyrgyzstan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Laos |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Latvia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Lebanon |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Lesotho |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Liberia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Libya |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Liechtenstein |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Lithuania |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Luxembourg |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Macau |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Madagascar |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Malawi |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Malaysia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Maldives |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Mali |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Malta |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Marshall Islands |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Mauritania |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Mauritius |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Mexico |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Micronesia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Moldova |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Monaco |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Mongolia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Montenegro |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Morocco |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Mozambique |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Myanmar |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Namibia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Nauru |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Nepal |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Netherlands |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 New Zealand |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Nicaragua |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Niger |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Nigeria |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 North Korea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 North Macedonia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Norway |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Oman |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Pakistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Palau |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Palestine |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Panama |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Papua New Guinea |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Paraguay |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Peru |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Philippines |
Visa required | — | Details → |
| Poland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Portugal |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Qatar |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Republic of the Congo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Romania |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Russia |
Visa-free | 30 days | Details → |
 Rwanda |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Saint Lucia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Samoa |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 San Marino |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Sao Tome and Principe |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Saudi Arabia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Senegal |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Serbia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Seychelles |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Sierra Leone |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Singapore |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Slovakia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Slovenia |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Solomon Islands |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Somalia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 South Africa |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 South Korea |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 South Sudan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Spain |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Sri Lanka |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Sudan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Suriname |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Sweden |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Switzerland |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Syria |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Taiwan |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Tajikistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Tanzania |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Thailand |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Timor-Leste |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Togo |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Tonga |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Tunisia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Türkiye |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Turkmenistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Tuvalu |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Uganda |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Ukraine |
Visa-free | 30 days | Details → |
 United Arab Emirates |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| United Kingdom |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
| United States |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Uruguay |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Uzbekistan |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Vanuatu |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Vatican City |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Venezuela |
Visa-free | 90 days | Details → |
 Vietnam |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Yemen |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Zambia |
Visa required | — | Details → |
 Zimbabwe |
Visa required | — | Details → |
No passport matches your search.
Bosnia and Herzegovina visa types, fees and processing timesSingle-entry/exit or transit visa fee published by the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina; a multiple-entry/exit or transit visa costs €57 for up to 90 days and €72 for over 90 days. The Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Qatar publishes a consular fee of EUR 60 for a type C visa; its document list includes a copy of a return air ticket, travel insurance covering EUR 30,000 or USD 50,000 and, for tourists, proof of a paid tourist trip including accommodation and transport, or proof of an organised trip or paid accommodation.
Consular fee for a type D visa as published by the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Qatar.
Entry requirements for Bosnia and HerzegovinaThe UK Foreign Office says your passport must have an expiry date at least 90 days after the date you plan to leave Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a date of issue less than 10 years before the date you arrive. The Government of Canada says it must be valid for at least 3 months beyond the date you expect to leave.
UK FCDO — Bosnia and Herzegovina entry requirements✓ Checked 7 Oct 2026
The Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Qatar lists travel insurance covering EUR 30,000 or USD 50,000 among the documents required for a visa. No official source we could read states an insurance requirement for visa-free visitors.
Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Qatar — Visas for Bosnia and Herzegovina (required documents)✓ Checked 4 Oct 2026
The Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Qatar lists a photocopy of the return air ticket among the documents required for a visa. No official source we could read states an onward or return ticket requirement for visa-free visitors.
Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Qatar — Visas for Bosnia and Herzegovina (required documents)✓ Checked 4 Oct 2026
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina says the minimum amount of financial resources required for a foreigner's stay is KM 150.00, or the equivalent in a freely convertible foreign currency, for each day of the intended stay.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina — Visas (minimum means of subsistence)✓ Checked 7 Oct 2026
The Government of Canada says that if you plan to visit for 3 or more days you must register with local police within 48 hours of your arrival; if you stay in a hotel, the staff will register you, and otherwise you fill in the registration form and submit it at the closest police station. The UK Foreign Office says all foreign nationals must register with the police within 72 hours of arrival.
Government of Canada — Bosnia and Herzegovina travel advice: entry and exit requirements (registration)✓ Checked 6 Oct 2026
A foreigner on a visa or visa-free stay must register their address with the Service or the police within 48 hours of entering Bosnia and Herzegovina, unless staying less than 3 days. If the foreigner uses accommodation services, the provider, not the foreigner, has this duty and must register within 12 hours of providing accommodation. A foreigner who should register and does not is fined 100 to 500 KM.
Service for Foreigners' Affairs of BiH — Stay of foreigners in BiH (Boravak stranaca u BiH)✓ Checked 12 Oct 2026
A foreigner who stays in Bosnia and Herzegovina longer than the visa or temporary residence permit allows, or does not leave within the period set by law or by decision, is fined 300 to 1,500 KM. If the overstay is no more than three days and the foreigner can justify the delay, the Service or the Border Police may issue a misdemeanour order and collect 100 KM for each day of overstay, without other measures. Expulsion orders a foreigner to leave and bans entry and stay for one to five years. The UK government says that if you do not have a stamp, the Border Police may fine you when you leave.
Service for Foreigners' Affairs of BiH (sps.gov.ba) — Law on Foreigners (Zakon o strancima), Sl. glasnik BiH 88/15✓ Checked 12 Oct 2026
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Indirect Taxation Authority says all travellers bringing in or taking out cash or securities valued at more than 10,000 euros must declare it to customs at every border crossing, on a currency declaration form available from customs officers at all international border crossings or from its website.
Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina — Information for citizens and travellers (bringing in and taking out cash)✓ Checked 7 Oct 2026
Bosnia and Herzegovina visa requirements statisticsWe track the entry rules of Bosnia and Herzegovina for 198 passports. The most common situation is visa required, which applies to 100 passports (51%). 49% of passports can enter without a visa. The least common is visa-free (98 passports).
Open your passport in the table for the exact rules — maximum stay, fees, how to apply and the official source. Entry rules change at short notice: confirm with the embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina or its official immigration website before you travel.
Frequently asked questions about Bosnia and Herzegovina visasData: TravelRequirements.info — Entry Requirements Dataset, AXG Sp. z o.o. (CC BY 4.0) — official sources are linked on each passport page. Gaps filled from the Passport Index dataset (MIT).
Travelling from Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Bosnia and Herzegovina passport holders can visit 74 countries without a visa. Open a country for the exact rules.
Albania
90d
Andorra
90d
Argentina
90d
Austria
90d
Azerbaijan
90d
Belarus
30d
Belgium
90d
Brazil
90d
Bulgaria
90d
Chile
90d
China
90d
Colombia
90d
Croatia
90d
Cuba
90d
Cyprus
90d
Czechia
90d
Denmark
90d
Dominica
21d
Dominican Republic
∞
Ecuador
90d
Estonia
90d
Eswatini
30d
Finland
90d
France
90d
Gambia
90d
Georgia
360d
Germany
90d
Greece
90d
Grenada
∞
Haiti
90d
Hong Kong
14d
Hungary
90d
Iceland
90d
Iran
15d
Italy
90d
Kyrgyzstan
60d
Latvia
90d
Liechtenstein
90d
Lithuania
90d
Luxembourg
90d
Macau
90d
Malaysia
90d
Malta
90d
Micronesia
30d
Moldova
90d
Monaco
90d
Montenegro
90d
Netherlands
90d
North Macedonia
90d
Norway
90d
Palestine
∞
Panama
90d
Poland
90d
Portugal
90d
Romania
90d
Russia
30d
Saint Lucia
42d
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
90d
San Marino
90d
Serbia
90d
Seychelles
90d
Singapore
30d
Slovakia
90d
Slovenia
90d
Spain
90d
Sweden
90d
Switzerland
90d
Tajikistan
30d
Trinidad and Tobago
30d
Tunisia
90d
Türkiye
90d
Ukraine
30d
Uzbekistan
30d
Vatican City
90d
