The St Kitts & Nevis passport, and where it stops.

Henley's 2026 index puts St Kitts and Nevis at 157 destinations, ranked 19th; our own list below, which counts territories as well as countries, comes to 169 entries without a visa in advance (135 visa-free, 30 on arrival, 4 with an eTA) and 37 that require a visa. Counts differ between passport indices because each treats territories, transit rules and visa-on-arrival categories differently. Treat any single number, ours included, as a snapshot: access is granted bilaterally and can be withdrawn without notice, as the section on what changed shows.

Every destination, sorted by region, with the type of access and the permitted stay. Visa-free means you board with the passport alone; visa on arrival and eTA mean a fee or an online form, not a consulate; eVisa means an application in advance, online; visa required means a consulate. Notable destinations that still require a visa: Ireland, United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, Turkey, South Africa.

Visa-free Visa on arrival eTA eVisa Visa required

Europe 49 visa-free · 1 eTA · 1 visa required

Americas 43 visa-free · 2 on arrival · 6 visa required

Asia 15 visa-free · 11 on arrival · 3 eTA · 14 eVisa · 12 visa required

Africa 17 visa-free · 11 on arrival · 20 eVisa · 11 visa required

Oceania 11 visa-free · 6 on arrival · 7 visa required

240 destinations, countries and territories, sorted by region. S marks the Schengen Area, where one entry rule covers all members. Compiled on 21 September 2026 from the published entry requirements of each destination, as collated in Wikipedia's visa requirements table, each row of which cites its source. Rules change without notice: confirm with the destination's consulate before you book.

The United Kingdom: still open, now with an ETA

St Kitts and Nevis passport holders do not need a UK visa for short visits, but since 2025 they need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), applied for online before travelling and valid for two years or until the passport expires. It is a pre-screening, not a visa, and the vast majority are granted within days. Do not board without one: airlines check.

Schengen: ETIAS is coming

The EU's ETIAS pre-travel authorisation for visa-exempt nationals is scheduled to start in the last quarter of 2026. When it goes live, St Kitts and Nevis passport holders will apply online before their first trip, as they already do for the UK. It does not change who is visa-exempt; it adds a screening step. The Entry/Exit System that records border crossings electronically has been in operation since late 2025.

The European question

Regulation (EU) 2025/2441, adopted on 26 November 2025 and in effect since 30 December 2025, amended the EU's visa suspension mechanism so that running an investor citizenship scheme, citizenship granted for payment to people with no genuine link to the country, is now a self-standing ground for suspending visa-free access. In its Eighth Report under that mechanism (COM(2025) 792, 19 December 2025) the Commission named all five Eastern Caribbean programmes as a continuing concern.

In July 2026 the Government of Antigua and Barbuda published its account of a letter dated 25 June 2026 from Commissioner Magnus Brunner, asking the five states to phase out their programmes by 1 June 2028. The Commission has not published the letter and the other four governments have not confirmed the date, so on this page it is reported, not asserted.

All five Caribbean programmes sell broadly the same document. The table below is the honest version of the comparison: the passports are within twelve destinations of each other, and the meaningful differences are price, processing time and Grenada's E-2 treaty with the United States.

Destination counts follow the Henley Passport Index base (visa-free, visa on arrival and eTA) and vary by index and month. Minimums are the single-applicant donation route after the 2024 OECS harmonisation, which set a common floor of USD 200,000 across the region.

The five are compared route by route in our Caribbean citizenship by investment comparison.

St Kitts and Nevis issues its passport to citizens, and citizenship comes by descent, by naturalisation after residence, or through the St Kitts and Nevis citizenship by investment programme, the world's first, running since 1984.

There is no residence requirement at any stage. The 2023 reforms raised every threshold and tightened due diligence; the pre-2023 figures still quoted on some agent sites no longer apply.