# Visa requirements for Azerbaijani citizens

Visa requirements for Azerbaijani citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Azerbaijan.
As of 2024, Azerbaijani citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 73 countries and territories, ranking the Azerbaijani passport 72nd in the world according to the Henley Passport Index.
Azerbaijani citizens in other countries also can benefit from the mobility rights arrangements within the Commonwealth of Independent States.

## Visa requirements

| Country | Visa requirement | Allowed stay | Notes (excluding departure fees) | Reciprocity |
| Afghanistan | Visa required | | | √ |
| Albania | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within any 180-day period. According to Albanian law must register within 24 hours of your arrival at the local police. | √ |
| Algeria | Visa required | | | X |
| Andorra | Visa required | | | √ |
| Angola | Visa required | | | √ |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Visa not required | 1 month | | X |
| Argentina | Visa required | | | √ |
| Armenia | Special permit required | | Visa is not required, but Azerbaijani citizens must have a special entry permit to enter or transit. | – |
| Australia | Online Visa required | | May apply online (Online Visitor e600 visa). | √ |
| Austria | Visa required | | | √ |
| Bahamas | Visa not required | 3 months | | X |
| Bahrain | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 14 days | | √ |
| Bangladesh | Visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Barbados | Visa not required | 28 days | | X |
| Belarus | Visa not required | | | √ |
| Belgium | Visa required | | | X |
| Belize | Visa required | | | √ |
| Benin | eVisa | 30 days | Must have an international vaccination certificate. | X |
| Bhutan | eVisa | | | √ |
| Bolivia | Online Visa / Visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within any 180-day period. According to Bosnia and Herzogovina law must register within 24 hours of your arrival at the local police. | √ |
| Botswana | eVisa | 3 months | | √ |
| Brazil | Visa required | | | X |
| Brunei | Visa required | | | X |
| Bulgaria | Visa required | | | X |
| Burkina Faso | eVisa | | | √ |
| Burundi | Visa on arrival | 1 month | | √ |
| Cambodia | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Cameroon | eVisa | | | √ |
| Canada | Visa required | | | X |
| Cape Verde | Visa on arrival | | | X |
| Central African Republic | Visa required | | | √ |
| Chad | Visa required | | | √ |
| Chile | Visa required | | | X |
| China | Visa required | | Visa not required for 30 days for travelling as part of an accredited tour group. 24-hour visa-free transit through any international airports of China (except Ürümqi), allows domestic travel through different airports. | X |
| Colombia | Visa not required | 90 days | Extendable up to 180-days stay within a 1-year period. | X |
| Comoros | Visa on arrival | 45 days | | X |
| Republic of the Congo | Visa required | | | √ |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | eVisa | 7 days | | √ |
| Costa Rica | Visa required | | | X |
| Côte d'Ivoire | eVisa | 3 months | e-Visa holders must arrive via Port Bouet Airport. | X |
| Croatia | Visa required | | | X |
| Cuba | Tourist card required | 90 days | Can be extended up to 90 days with a fee. | X |
| Cyprus | Visa required | | | X |
| Czech Republic | Visa required | | | X |
| Denmark | Visa required | | | X |
| Djibouti | eVisa | 90 days | | √ |
| Dominica | Visa not required | 21 days | | X |
| Dominican Republic | Visa required | | Visa required, except for passengers with a valid visa issued by Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland (Rep.), Romania, United States, United Kingdom or a Schengen Member State. | √ |
| Ecuador | Visa not required | 90 days | | X |
| Egypt | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 30 days | Tourists arriving at Sharm El Sheikh, Saint Catherine or Taba airports and remaining in the Sinai resorts do not require a visa up to 14 days. | √ |
| El Salvador | Visa required | | | √ |
| Equatorial Guinea | eVisa | | | √ |
| Eritrea | Visa required | | | √ |
| Estonia | Visa required | | | X |
| Eswatini | Visa required | | | √ |
| Ethiopia | eVisa | up to 90 days | e-Visa holders must arrive via Addis Ababa Bole International Airport | X |
| Fiji | Visa required | | | √ |
| Finland | Visa required | | | X |
| France | Visa required | | | X |
| Gabon | eVisa | 90 days | e-Visa holders must arrive via Libreville International Airport. | X |
| Gambia | Visa required | | | √ |
| Georgia | Visa not required | 1 year | If have entered in Abkhazia or South Ossetia the border officers won't let you pass to Georgia. | √ |
| Germany | Visa required | | | X |
| Ghana | Visa required | | | √ |
| Greece | Visa required | | | X |
| Grenada | Visa required | | Holders of a pre-clearance letter may collect visa upon arrival. | √ |
| Guatemala | Visa required | | | X |
| Guinea | eVisa | 90 days | | X |
| Guinea-Bissau | Visa on arrival | 90 days | | X |
| Guyana | Visa required | | | √ |
| Haiti | Visa not required | 3 months | | X |
| Honduras | Visa required | | | X |
| Hungary | Visa required | | | X |
| Iceland | Visa required | | | X |
| India | eVisa | 30 days | e-Visa holders must arrive via 31 designated airports or 5 designated seaports. An Indian e-Tourist Visa may only be obtained twice within 1 calendar year. Foreigners of Pakistani origin or who hold a Pakistani Passport are not eligible for an e-Visa. Foreigners who are not Pakistani nationals, but whose parents or grandparents (either paternal or maternal) were born in, or were permanent residents in Pakistan, are also not eligible for an e-Visa. | √ |
| Indonesia | Visa required | | | X |
| Iran | Visa not required | 30 days | | √ |
| Iraq | eVisa | | | √ |
| Ireland | Visa required | | | X |
| Israel | Visa required | | | X |
| Italy | Visa required | | | X |
| Jamaica | Visa on arrival | | | X |
| Japan | Visa required | | | X |
| Jordan | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 3 months | | X |
| Kazakhstan | Visa not required | 30 days | | √ |
| Kenya | Electronic Travel Authorisation | 90 days | Applications can be submitted up to 90 days prior to travel and must be submitted at least 3 days in advance. eTA fee is USD 32.50. Proof of reservation at the hotel where visitors plan to stay is required (if staying with friends, an invitation letter is also acceptable). Yellow fever vaccination certificate is required if coming from endemic countries. | √ |
| Kiribati | Visa required | | | √ |
| North Korea | Visa required | | | √ |
| South Korea | Visa required | | Visa-free 30 days for Jeju Island. | X |
| Kuwait | Visa required | | | X |
| Kyrgyzstan | Visa not required | | | √ |
| Laos | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 30 days | 17 of the 31 border crossings are only open to visa holders. e-Visa may be used to enter Laos through Luang Prabang, Pakse and Vientiane international airports, 3 Thai-Lao Friendship Bridges and in Boten (road and railroad). Visa on arrival is available at Luang Prabang, Pakse and Vientiane international airports, the 4 Thai-Lao Friendship Bridges and 6 border crossings. Visa on arrival is extendable for an additional 60 days at the Department of Immigration in Vientiane. | X |
| Latvia | Visa required | | | X |
| Lebanon | Free visa on arrival | 1 month | 1 month extendable for 2 additional months. Granted free of charge at Beirut International Airport or any other port of entry if there is no Israeli visa or seal, holding a telephone number, an address in Lebanon, and a non-refundable return or round trip ticket. | X |
| Lesotho | eVisa | | | X |
| Liberia | Visa required | | | √ |
| Libya | eVisa | | | √ |
| Liechtenstein | Visa required | | | X |
| Lithuania | Visa required | | | X |
| Luxembourg | Visa required | | | X |
| Madagascar | Visa on arrival | 60 days | | X |
| Malawi | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 90 days | | X |
| Malaysia | Visa not required | 30 days | | √ |
| Maldives | Free visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Mali | Visa required | | | √ |
| Malta | Visa required | | | X |
| Marshall Islands | Visa on arrival | 90 days | | X |
| Mauritania | Visa on arrival | | Available at Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport. | X |
| Mauritius | Visa on arrival | 60 days | | X |
| Mexico | Visa required | | | X |
| Micronesia | Visa not required | 30 days | | X |
| Moldova | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within any 180-day period. | √ |
| Monaco | Visa required | | | X |
| Mongolia | Visa required | | | X |
| Montenegro | Visa not required | 90 days | According to Montenegro law must register within 24 hours of your arrival in Montenegro at the local police. | √ |
| Morocco | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within any 180-day period. From 28 August 2024. | √ |
| Mozambique | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Myanmar | Visa required | | | √ |
| Namibia | Visa not required | 90 days | | X |
| Nauru | Visa required | | | √ |
| Nepal | Online Visa / Visa on arrival | 90 days | | X |
| Netherlands | Visa required | | | X |
| New Zealand | Visa required | | Diplomatic and service passports with the former USSR symbol issued in Azerbaijan are unacceptable, and visas will not be endorsed in them. Holders of an Australian Permanent Resident Visa or Resident Return Visa may be granted a New Zealand Resident Visa on arrival permitting indefinite stay (pursuant to the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement), subject to meeting character requirements and obtaining an Electronic Travel Authority prior to departure. | X |
| Nicaragua | Visa on arrival | 90 days | | X |
| Niger | Visa required | | | √ |
| Nigeria | eVisa | 90 days | | √ |
| North Macedonia | Visa required | | | X |
| Norway | Visa required | | | X |
| Oman | Visa not required | | | X |
| Pakistan | eVisa | 90 days | | √ |
| Palau | Free visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Panama | Visa required | | | X |
| Papua New Guinea | eVisa | 60 days | Visitors may apply for a visa online under the "Tourist - Own Itinerary" category. | √ |
| Paraguay | Visa required | | | X |
| Peru | Visa required | | | X |
| Philippines | Visa required | | | √ |
| Poland | Visa required | | | X |
| Portugal | Visa required | | | X |
| Qatar | Visa not required | 30 days | | X |
| Romania | Visa required | | | X |
| Russia | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within one calendar year period. According to Russian law must register during 7 working days at the place of residence in Department of Citizenship and Migration. A migration card must be produced along with passport. | √ |
| Rwanda | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | eVisa | | | X |
| Saint Lucia | Visa required | | | √ |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Visa not required | 3 month | | X |
| Samoa | Visa not required | 60 days | | X |
| San Marino | Visa required | | | X |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | eVisa | | | X |
| Saudi Arabia | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 90 days | | √ |
| Senegal | Visa on arrival | | | X |
| Serbia | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within any 180-day period. According to Serbia law must register within 24 hours of your arrival at the local police. | X |
| Seychelles | Electronic Border System | 3 months | Application can be submitted up to 30 days before travel. Visitors must upload a reservation confirmation(s) for each visitor's location of stay in Seychelles. Yellow fever vaccination certificate is required if coming from endemic countries. Payment of the fee (EUR 10) by credit or debit card. Valid for one journey only and it expires once exit the country. | X |
| Sierra Leone | eVisa | 3 months | | √ |
| Singapore | Visa required | | | √ |
| Slovakia | Visa required | | | X |
| Slovenia | Visa required | | | X |
| Solomon Islands | Visa required | | | X |
| Somalia | Visa on arrival | 30 days | Available at Bosaso Airport, Galcaio Airport and Mogadishu Airport. | X |
| South Africa | Visa required | | | √ |
| South Sudan | eVisa | | Obtainable online. Printed visa authorization must be presented at the time of travel. | X |
| Spain | Visa required | | | X |
| Sri Lanka | eVisa / Visa on arrival | 60 days / 30 days | The standard visitor visa allows a stay of 60 days within any 6-month period. Visa fees (for Standard visitor visa): SAARC - USD 35 Non SAARC - USD 75 e-Visa categories will be charged an additional USD 18.50 service fee. If transiting from any of the Sri Lankan airports, An e-Visa is exempted (2 day transit period). | √ |
| Sudan | Visa required | | | X |
| Suriname | Visa not required | 90 days | An entrance fee of USD 25 or EUR 25 must be paid online prior to arrival. Multiple entry e-Visa is also available. | X |
| Sweden | Visa required | | | X |
| Switzerland | Visa required | | | X |
| Syria | eVisa | | | X |
| Tajikistan | Visa not required | 90 days | | √ |
| Tanzania | eVisa / Visa on arrival | | | X |
| Thailand | Visa required | | Maximum 2 visits annually if not arriving by air. | X |
| Timor-Leste | Visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |
| Togo | eVisa | 15 days | | X |
| Tonga | Visa required | | | √ |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Visa required | | | X |
| Tunisia | Visa not required (conditional) | | Visa not required for tourist groups organised by a travel agency. | √ |
| Turkey | Visa not required | 90 days | ID card valid. | √ |
| Turkmenistan | Visa required | | | √ |
| Tuvalu | Visa on arrival | 1 month | | X |
| Uganda | eVisa | 3 months | | X |
| Ukraine | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within any 180-day period. | √ |
| United Arab Emirates | Visa not required | 90 days | 90 days within any 180-day period. | √ |
| United Kingdom | Visa required | | | X |
| United States | Visa required | | | X |
| Uruguay | Visa required | | | √ |
| Uzbekistan | Visa not required | Unlimited | | √ |
| Vanuatu | Visa not required | 30 days | | X |
| Vatican City | Visa required | | | X |
| Venezuela | Visa required | | | √ |
| Vietnam | eVisa | | e-Visa is valid for 90 days and multiple entry. | √ |
| Yemen | Visa required | | | √ |
| Zambia | eVisa | 90 days | | X |
| Zimbabwe | Visa on arrival | 30 days | | X |

## Visa facilitation

Azerbaijan concluded a visa facilitation agreement with the European Union (excluding Denmark and Ireland) which reduces the number of documents sufficient for justifying the purpose of the trip, envisages issuance of multiple-entry visas, limits the length of processing and reduces the issuing fee or waives it entirely for many categories of its citizens.

## Non-visa restrictions

Many countries have entry restrictions on foreigners that go beyond the common requirement of having either a valid visa or a visa exemption. Such restrictions may be health related or impose additional documentation requirements on certain classes of people for diplomatic or political purposes.

### Blank passport pages

Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages. Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being valid or available.

### Vaccination

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia, require all incoming passengers older than nine months to one year to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.
Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area or has visited one recently or has transited for 12 hours in those countries: Algeria, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

### Passport validity length

Very few countries, such as Paraguay, just require a valid passport on arrival.
However many countries and groupings now require only an identity card – especially from their neighbours. Other countries may have special bilateral arrangements that depart from the generality of their passport validity length policies to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other's citizens or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).
Some countries, such as Japan, Ireland and the United Kingdom, require a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.
In the absence of specific bilateral agreements, countries requiring passports to be valid for at least 6 more months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain, Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia and Zambia.
Countries requiring passports with a validity of at least 3 months beyond the date of intended departure include Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Honduras, Montenegro, Nauru, Moldova and New Zealand. Similarly, the EEA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, all European Union countries (except Ireland) together with Switzerland also require 3 months validity beyond the date of the bearer's intended departure unless the bearer is an EEA or Swiss national.
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include Albania, North Macedonia, Panama, and Senegal.
Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.
Countries that require a passport validity of at least one month beyond the date of intended departure include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau, the Maldives and South Africa.

#### Maximum passport age

Countries of the Schengen area require non-EU passports to be less than 10 years old upon entry. A number of holders of British passports, which until September 2018 could be issued with a validity period of up to 10 years and nine months if the previous passport was not expired, were unable to travel to the EU subsequent to Brexit due to this restriction.

### Criminal record

Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States, routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record, while others impose restrictions depending on the type of conviction and the length of the sentence.

### Persona non grata

The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning them from entering the country or expelling them if they have already entered. In non-diplomatic use, the authorities of a country may also declare a foreigner persona non grata permanently or temporarily, usually because of unlawful activity.

### Israeli stamps

Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, and Yemen do not allow entry to people with passport stamps from Israel or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa, or where there is evidence of previous travel to Israel such as entry or exit stamps from neighbouring border posts in transit countries such as Jordan and Egypt.
To circumvent this Arab League boycott of Israel, the Israeli immigration services have now mostly ceased to stamp foreign nationals' passports on either entry to or exit from Israel (unless the entry is for some work-related purposes). Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport. Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017) stamped at Erez when passing into and out of Gaza.
Iran refuses admission to holders of passports containing an Israeli visa or stamp that is less than 12 months old.

### Biometrics

Several countries mandate that all travellers, or all foreign travellers, be fingerprinted on arrival and will refuse admission to or even arrest travellers who refuse to comply. In some countries, such as the United States, this may apply even to transit passengers who merely wish to change planes rather than go landside.
Fingerprinting countries/regions include Afghanistan, Argentina, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Japan, Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken), Malaysia upon entry and departure, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Many countries also require a photo be taken of people entering the country. The United States, which does not fully implement exit control formalities at its land frontiers (although long mandated by its own legislation), intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.
Together with fingerprint and face recognition, iris scanning is one of three biometric identification technologies internationally standardised since 2006 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for use in e-passports and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.