Liechtenstein visa requirements · checked 26 September 2026

Visa & Entry Requirements for Liechtenstein

Q: What documents do I need to enter Liechtenstein?

Passport validity: The UK government tells British nationals that Liechtenstein follows Schengen area rules: their passport must have a date of issue less than 10 years before the date they arrive and an expiry date at least 3 months after the day they plan to leave the Schengen area. Travel insurance: Under the Schengen Visa Code, visa applicants must hold travel medical insurance valid throughout the territory of the Member States and covering the entire period of the intended stay; the minimum coverage is EUR 30,000. Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read makes a return or onward ticket a condition of entry in itself. Proof of funds: The European Commission's table of reference amounts lists, as the minimum amount per day and per person for Liechtenstein, around CHF 100, and around CHF 30 for students with a valid student ID.

Q: How long can I stay in Liechtenstein without a visa?

Up to 90 days for every visa-free passport.

Q: How many countries can visit Liechtenstein without a visa?

93 of 198 passports can enter Liechtenstein visa-free (47%). and 105 need a visa from an embassy.

Most travellers need a visa for Liechtenstein: 105 of 198 passports must apply at an embassy or consulate, while 93 passports enter visa-free.

The UK government says Liechtenstein follows Schengen area rules. EU nationals have the right to travel freely in Liechtenstein, a non-EU member of the Schengen area. Under Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 (consolidated to 30 December 2025), nationals of the countries in its Annex II are exempt from the visa requirement for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period, and nationals of the countries in Annex I must hold a visa; Liechtenstein's Immigration and Passport Office says visa-required people can apply at the Swiss representation where they live.

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Visa for Liechtenstein — requirements summary

Visa-free: 93 (47%)
Visa required: 105 (53%)

All travellers must meet the entry rules set by Liechtenstein, 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	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Azerbaijan	Visa required	—	Details →
Bahamas	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Bahrain	Visa required	—	Details →
Bangladesh	Visa required	—	Details →
Barbados	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Belarus	Visa required	—	Details →
Belgium	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Belize	Visa required	—	Details →
Benin	Visa required	—	Details →
Bhutan	Visa required	—	Details →
Bolivia	Visa required	—	Details →
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Botswana	Visa required	—	Details →
Brazil	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Brunei	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Bulgaria	Freedom of movement	—	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 required	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Cuba	Visa required	—	Details →
Cyprus	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Czechia	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Denmark	Freedom of movement	—	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	90 days	Details →
Equatorial Guinea	Visa required	—	Details →
Eritrea	Visa required	—	Details →
Estonia	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Eswatini	Visa required	—	Details →
Ethiopia	Visa required	—	Details →
Fiji	Visa required	—	Details →
Finland	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
France	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Gabon	Visa required	—	Details →
Gambia	Visa required	—	Details →
Georgia	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Germany	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Ghana	Visa required	—	Details →
Greece	Freedom of movement	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Iceland	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
India	Visa required	—	Details →
Indonesia	Visa required	—	Details →
Iran	Visa required	—	Details →
Iraq	Visa required	—	Details →
Ireland	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Israel	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Italy	Freedom of movement	—	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-free	90 days	Details →
Kuwait	Visa required	—	Details →
Kyrgyzstan	Visa required	—	Details →
Laos	Visa required	—	Details →
Latvia	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Lebanon	Visa required	—	Details →
Lesotho	Visa required	—	Details →
Liberia	Visa required	—	Details →
Libya	Visa required	—	Details →
Lithuania	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Luxembourg	Freedom of movement	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Portugal	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Qatar	Visa required	—	Details →
Republic of the Congo	Visa required	—	Details →
Romania	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Russia	Visa required	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Slovenia	Freedom of movement	—	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	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Sri Lanka	Visa required	—	Details →
Sudan	Visa required	—	Details →
Suriname	Visa required	—	Details →
Sweden	Freedom of movement	—	Details →
Switzerland	Freedom of movement	—	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 required	—	Details →
Turkmenistan	Visa required	—	Details →
Tuvalu	Visa-free	90 days	Details →
Uganda	Visa required	—	Details →
Ukraine	Visa-free	90 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 required	—	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 →

Liechtenstein visa types, fees and processing times

Schengen short-stay visa

Embassy

Fee: 90 EUR
Max stay: 90 days
Extension: Possible

Under the Schengen Visa Code, children from six and below 12 pay EUR 45, and children under six are exempt. Liechtenstein's Immigration and Passport Office says visa-required people can apply at the Swiss representation where they live.

Official application site →

Entry requirements for Liechtenstein

Passport validity

10 years

The UK government tells British nationals that Liechtenstein follows Schengen area rules: their passport must have a date of issue less than 10 years before the date they arrive and an expiry date at least 3 months after the day they plan to leave the Schengen area.

UK FCDO — Liechtenstein travel advice, entry requirements✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026

Blank passport pages

2 blank pages

Your passport needs at least 2 blank pages.

Liechtenstein Ordinance on Entry and the Issuing of Visas (VEV), consolidated text✓ Checked 2 Oct 2026

Travel insurance

EUR 30,000.

Under the Schengen Visa Code, visa applicants must hold travel medical insurance valid throughout the territory of the Member States and covering the entire period of the intended stay; the minimum coverage is EUR 30,000.

Visa Code (Regulation (EC) No 810/2009), consolidated text — EUR-Lex✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026

Return or onward ticket

No official requirement

No official source we could read makes a return or onward ticket a condition of entry in itself. Under the Schengen Borders Code (Annex I), the supporting documents border guards may check for tourist or private trips include a return or round-trip ticket.

Schengen Borders Code (Regulation (EU) 2016/399), consolidated text — EUR-Lex✓ Checked 9 Oct 2026

Proof of funds

CHF 100,

The European Commission's table of reference amounts lists, as the minimum amount per day and per person for Liechtenstein, around CHF 100, and around CHF 30 for students with a valid student ID.

European Commission — Reference amounts required for the crossing of the external border, fixed by national authorities✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026

Arrival cards and declarations: EES — Entry/Exit System (biometric registration)

The EU's Travel Europe site says that the first time you arrive at a border crossing point since the EES started, passport control officers will take a photo of your face and/or scan your fingerprints, and your passport will not be stamped. Canada's travel advice says Liechtenstein has no international airport; the closest is in Zurich. The UK government says there is no cost for EES registration.

UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — Liechtenstein travel advice: entry requirements✓ Checked 7 Oct 2026

Arrival cards and declarations: ETIAS — European Travel Information and Authorization System

The EU's ETIAS site says an ETIAS travel authorisation is an entry requirement for visa-exempt nationals travelling to any of the 30 European countries concerned, but that ETIAS is currently not in operation, no applications are collected, and the EU will announce the start date several months before launch.

ETIAS — Official EU website✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026

Registration after arrival

CHF 5,000.

Anyone who accommodates people for payment must register them in the reporting procedure, or have them registered. The reports go to the Office of Economic Affairs and the National Police. The host must enter the guest's details in the electronic reporting system immediately after the guest arrives. The ordinance also requires the host to make sure that the completed and signed reporting form reaches the National Police on the guest's day of arrival. Intentionally breaching the reporting duty is fined up to CHF 5,000.

Liechtenstein Government Legal Service (Lilex) — Location Promotion Act (Standortförderungsgesetz, SFG), version of 01.01.2025✓ Checked 12 Oct 2026

Overstay penalties

Staying unlawfully, in particular after the permit-free or permitted stay has expired, is punished by the Landgericht (court) with up to one year's imprisonment or a monetary penalty of up to 360 daily rates. Committing it negligently is punished by a monetary penalty of up to 360 daily rates. Prosecution may be waived if the person is removed at once. The permit-free stay may not exceed three months within six months from the first entry, or the shorter stay set in the visa. A removal order sets a departure period of seven to thirty days. A removed foreigner who was given no departure period, or did not leave within it, receives an entry ban of at most five years.

Liechtenstein Government Legal Service (Lilex) — Foreigners Act (Ausländergesetz, AuG), consolidated version of 12.06.2026✓ Checked 12 Oct 2026

Customs allowances

CHF 10,000

The UK government says Switzerland handles customs matters for Liechtenstein. Switzerland's Federal Office for Customs and Border Security says unrestricted amounts of cash may be carried into, through and out of Switzerland and need not be declared, but that if questioned during a check you must report truthfully, and anyone carrying CHF 10,000 or more will be asked to disclose their identity, the source and intended use of the cash and the beneficial owner.

FOCBS (Swiss customs) — cash, foreign currency, securities✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026

Liechtenstein visa requirements statistics

198

Passports covered

105

Most common: Visa required

Least common: Visa-free

47%

Visa-free access

Visa-free stays by length

90 days · 63 passports

Understanding Liechtenstein visa requirements

We track the entry rules of Liechtenstein for 198 passports. The most common situation is visa required, which applies to 105 passports (53%). 47% of passports can enter without a visa. The least common is visa-free (93 passports).

Entry categories for Liechtenstein

Visa-free entry: 93 passports can enter without a visa, for up to 90 days.
Visa required: 105 passports must apply at an embassy or consulate.

What else you need to enter Liechtenstein

Passport validity: The UK government tells British nationals that Liechtenstein follows Schengen area rules: their passport must have a date of issue less than 10 years before the date they arrive and an expiry date at least 3 months after the day they plan to leave the Schengen area.
Travel insurance: Under the Schengen Visa Code, visa applicants must hold travel medical insurance valid throughout the territory of the Member States and covering the entire period of the intended stay; the minimum coverage is EUR 30,000.
Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read makes a return or onward ticket a condition of entry in itself.
Proof of funds: The European Commission's table of reference amounts lists, as the minimum amount per day and per person for Liechtenstein, around CHF 100, and around CHF 30 for students with a valid student ID.

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 Liechtenstein or its official immigration website before you travel.

Frequently asked questions about Liechtenstein visas

Do I need a visa for Liechtenstein?

The UK government says Liechtenstein follows Schengen area rules, and EU nationals have the right to travel freely there. Under Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 (consolidated to 30 December 2025), nationals of the countries in its Annex II are exempt from the visa requirement for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period; the UK tells British nationals they can travel to the Schengen area, which includes Liechtenstein, without a visa for up to 90 days in any 180-day period. Nationals of the countries in Annex I must hold a visa.

Does Liechtenstein issue its own visas?

Liechtenstein's Immigration and Passport Office says visa-required people can apply at the Swiss representation where they live abroad, and that the decision lies partly with the Swiss authorities and partly with the Office. It lists places where the Swiss representation is not responsible for issuing visas for Liechtenstein, for example Tirana and Kuala Lumpur (Austria) and Chicago (Lithuania).

Does time in Liechtenstein count toward my 90 Schengen days?

The UK government says British nationals can travel without a visa to the Schengen area, which includes Liechtenstein, for up to 90 days in any 180-day period, and that if you are travelling to other Schengen countries as well, your whole visit must be within the 90-day visa-free limit.

What currency does Liechtenstein use?

The Swiss franc (CHF), according to Canada's travel advice.

Do US citizens need a visa for Liechtenstein?

US citizens can visit Liechtenstein visa-free for 90 days. Full rules for United States passport holders.

Do UK citizens need a visa for Liechtenstein?

UK citizens can visit Liechtenstein visa-free for 90 days. Full rules for United Kingdom passport holders.

Do German citizens need a visa for Liechtenstein?

German citizens can live and travel in Liechtenstein freely. Full rules for Germany passport holders.

What documents do I need to enter Liechtenstein?

Passport validity: The UK government tells British nationals that Liechtenstein follows Schengen area rules: their passport must have a date of issue less than 10 years before the date they arrive and an expiry date at least 3 months after the day they plan to leave the Schengen area. Travel insurance: Under the Schengen Visa Code, visa applicants must hold travel medical insurance valid throughout the territory of the Member States and covering the entire period of the intended stay; the minimum coverage is EUR 30,000. Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read makes a return or onward ticket a condition of entry in itself. Proof of funds: The European Commission's table of reference amounts lists, as the minimum amount per day and per person for Liechtenstein, around CHF 100, and around CHF 30 for students with a valid student ID.

How long can I stay in Liechtenstein without a visa?

Up to 90 days for every visa-free passport.

How many countries can visit Liechtenstein without a visa?

93 of 198 passports can enter Liechtenstein visa-free (47%). and 105 need a visa from an embassy.

Data: 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).

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Where can Liechtenstein citizens travel visa-free?

Liechtenstein passport holders can visit 114 countries without a visa. Open a country for the exact rules.

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