Antigua and Barbuda

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Entry rule

e-Visa, stay set by the visa

Before you travel: you need an e-visa.

How long you may stay is set by your visa.

Entry rule for 12 September 2026 Source checked 29 August 2026
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Entry and stay only. What this covers

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Open source document

Official wording

The following countries do not require a Visa to enter Antigua and Barbuda.

…Citizens of countries which do not appear on any of the above list, require a visa.

Aevamo’s reading

The Immigration and Passport Act, 2014 creates the entry obligation: section 11(6) empowers the Minister by Order to require citizens of specified countries to hold a visa, and sections 13(2) and 24 make entry as a bona fide visitor (for not more than six months) the visa-free route that the exemption orders implement. The Act is the instrument that imposes the requirement; the ministry page and orders describe or grant exemptions from it.

The Department of Immigration's page enumerates every country and class that does not require a visa (its European Union, Commonwealth and Other sections) and then states, as the operative rule for everyone else, that 'Citizens of countries which do not appear on any of the above list, require a visa.' The residual row covers exactly that complement: the 87 issuers named in none of the page's lists. The document therefore governs all of them collectively, as a class, by its own final sentence, not by enumerating them individually.

Source details

Source checked
29 August 2026
Data snapshot
10 September 2026
Publisher
Antigua and Barbuda Department of Immigration Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Immigration.
Reference ID
atg_imm_gov_ag_list
How the documents behind this regime are dated

The Act is dated 2014 (assented 2 June 2014, No. 6 of 2014). The Visa Exemption Orders are dated 2015 (SI No. 15, gazetted 30 April 2015) and 2016 (SI No. 30, gazetted 6 October 2016). The EU-ATG agreement is dated 28 May 2009 and EUR-Lex serves a consolidated version dated 01/11/2021. The immigration.gov.ag pages carry a 2015-2016 footer and are the Department's live published pages as fetched. The Kosovo-Antigua and Barbuda visa-abolition agreement was signed in Washington, D.C. on 24 July 2019, gazetted in Kosovo as act PRS-208/2019-MARR-ND on 5 November 2019 and, per the Kosovar Ministry of Foreign Affairs, entered into force on 15 November 2019. One held document came from cache rather than live: atg_cip_visa_requirements (cip.gov.ag), bytes from an earlier real fetch of the same URL, retrieved 28 August 2026; no row cites it.

Other entry routes 1 alternatives

These routes depend on a different document or additional conditions.

  • Visa on arrival, 30 days

    Visa-on-arrival is available only to holders of a valid United States, Canadian, United Kingdom or Schengen visa or permanent resident card whose sole purpose is tourism.

What this answer covers Limits & assumptions

Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.

Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.