Last update: 16/07/2014 Country Visa is required Yes/No Afghanistan Yes Albania (3) No Algeria Yes Andorra No Angola Yes Antigua and Barbuda No Argentina No Armenia Yes Australia No Austria (1) No Azerbaijan Yes Bahamas No Bahrain Yes Bangladesh Yes Barbados No Belarus Yes Belgium (1) No Belize Yes Benin Yes Bhutan Yes Bolivia Yes Bosnia and Herzegovina (3) No Botswana Yes Brazil No Brunei No Burkina Faso Yes Burundi Yes Cambodia Yes Cameroon Yes Canada No Cape Verde Yes Central African Republic Yes Chad Yes Chile No China, Peoples Republic of (PRC) Yes China, Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of the PRC) No China, Macao (Special Administrative Region of the PRC) No Columbia Yes Comoros Yes Congo, Democratic Republic of the Yes
Congo-Brazzaville Costa Rica Cote d’Ivoire Croatia Cube Cyprus (1) Czech Republic (1) Democratic Republic of Korea Denmark (1) Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia (1) Ethiopia Fiji Finland (1) France (1) Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany (1) Ghana Greece (1) Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary (1) India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland (1) Island (1) Israel (5) Italy (1) Jamaica Japan Jordan
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Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia (1) Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lichtenstein (1) Lithuania (1) Luxemburg (1) Macedonia (3) Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta (1) Marshal Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova (3) Monaco Mongolia Montenegro (3) Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru, Republic of Nepal Netherland (1) New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway (1) Oman Pakistan Palau Palestinian Authority
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Panamas Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland (1) Portugal (1) Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Korea Romania (1) Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia (4) Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia (1) Slovenia (1) Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain (1) Sri Lanka Sudan Surinam Swaziland Sweden (1) Switzerland (1) Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia
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Turkey (2) Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom (1) Uruguay USA Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
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(1) Citizens of the EU, EEC (Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein) and Switzerland are exempted from the requirement to have a long-term visa and from the requirement to have “work permit” when staying in Bulgaria for the period of more then 90 days. (2) Citizens of the Republic of Turkey holding valid regular passports and visas issued by the Member States of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement or of the European Union, or residence permits issued by the Member States of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement or of the European Union, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, may enter the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and transit therethrough without visas for up to 5 (five) days, where their transit is from the Republic of Turkey to the state which issued the visa or residence permit, as well as in case of transit from such state to the Republic of Turkey. Nationals of Turkey, holders of special passports are not visa exempt. (3) Only holders of biometric passports are exempt from the visa obligation. Holders of nonbiometric passports still require a visa in which case the visa facilitation agreements apply. (4) Only holders of biometric passports are exempt from the visa obligation. Holders of non-biometric passports and holders of passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate (in Serbian: Koordinaciona uprava) still require a visa in which case the visa facilitation agreements apply. (5) Israeli citizens, holders of "Israel Travel document in lieu of national passport"are exempted of visa requirements for entering Bulgaria.
