What the Ecuador visa rules mean for Solomon Islands travellers
Solomon Islands citizens can enter Ecuador without a visa and stay for up to 90 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 90-day limit usually counts calendar days from your arrival, so book your return flight inside that window.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Ecuador applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: The UK Foreign Office tells British nationals that, to enter Ecuador, their passport must have an expiry date at least 6 months after the date they arrive.
- Blank passport pages: Your passport needs at least 1 blank page.
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: Ecuador's Ministry of Public Health said on 28 August 2025 that it had modified the requirement to present a yellow fever vaccination certificate to enter the country from Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil: instead of …
- Travel insurance: The UK government tells British travellers that to enter Galápagos they must have travel health insurance, which it says is mandatory for foreign tourists. No official source we could read states an insurance requiremen…
Ecuador entry rules compared
Ecuador lets 151 passports in without a visa, issues eVisas to 1 and requires an embassy visa from 46. Solomon Islands citizens are treated the same way as Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Micronesia. 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 Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica and Dominican Republic.
In the other direction, Ecuador citizens need evisa to visit Solomon Islands.