Australia entry requirements, by passport
Australia visa requirements at a glance: 46 of the 198 passports VisaRadar tracks can enter Australia without arranging a visa beforehand: visa-free, with a visa on arrival, or with an electronic travel authorisation. The other 152 must obtain a visa before they travel.
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We'll take you straight to the entry requirements for Australia for your nationality.
What we've verified for Australia
Beyond the yes/no matrix, we've checked these against an official primary source (last checked 18 August 2026). The specifics depend on your nationality: open your passport's row in the table for the detail that applies to you.
- Authorisation fee: 20 AUD
- Typical processing time
- Required documents (2)
- Money you need to show on entry
- Required vaccinations
- Health-insurance rules
- Customs limits (cash, alcohol, tobacco)
- Overstay penalties
- Stay and transit rules
Sources: immi.homeaffairs.gov.au (Department of Home Affairs: official ETA subclass 601 page, validity and stay conditions); malaysia.highcommission.gov.au (official .gov.au subdomain: confirms the AUD 20 service fee); abf.gov.au (Australian Border Force: alcohol/tobacco/general-goods allowances and the AUD 10,000 cash declaration threshold, figures as quoted verbatim by abf.gov.au itself) (checked 18/08/2026). Also immi.homeaffairs.gov.au: the ETA passport list, the eVisitor page (subclass 651, free) and the Visitor visa (subclass 600) charge, checked 10/10/2026.
Australia requires almost every visitor to get travel authorization before boarding: the Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) for eligible passports, or a traditional visa for everyone else. The Australian ETA can only be processed through the official app or the Department of Home Affairs website: third-party sites exist that charge much higher fees for the same process.
This table summarises the exact entry mechanism for every passport we track. The difference between entering visa-free, with an electronic authorisation, with an e-Visa, or with a traditional visa is explained in visa, e-Visa, and electronic authorisation: what's the difference. How we verify every row before publishing it is on methodology.
Base entry rules refreshed 2 November 2026. Published: 20 August 2026.
| Passport | Requirement | Max. stay |
|---|---|---|
| Visa-free | ||
| Andorra | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Austria | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Belgium | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Brunei | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Bulgaria | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Canada | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Croatia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Cyprus | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Czech Republic | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Denmark | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Estonia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Finland | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| France | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Germany | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Greece | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Hong Kong | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Hungary | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Iceland | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Ireland | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Italy | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Japan | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Latvia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Liechtenstein | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Lithuania | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Luxembourg | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Malaysia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Malta | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Monaco | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Netherlands | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| New Zealand | Visa-free | — |
| Norway | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Poland | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Portugal | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Romania | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| San Marino | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Singapore | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Slovakia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Slovenia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| South Korea | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Spain | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Sweden | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Switzerland | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Taiwan | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| United Kingdom | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| United States | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Vatican | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Visa required | ||
| Afghanistan | e-Visa | — |
| Albania | e-Visa | — |
| Algeria | e-Visa | — |
| Angola | e-Visa | — |
| Antigua and Barbuda | e-Visa | — |
| Argentina | e-Visa | — |
| Armenia | e-Visa | — |
| Azerbaijan | e-Visa | — |
| Bahamas | e-Visa | — |
| Bahrain | e-Visa | — |
| Bangladesh | e-Visa | — |
| Barbados | e-Visa | — |
| Belarus | e-Visa | — |
| Belize | e-Visa | — |
| Benin | e-Visa | — |
| Bhutan | e-Visa | — |
| Bolivia | e-Visa | — |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | e-Visa | — |
| Botswana | e-Visa | — |
| Brazil | e-Visa | — |
| Burkina Faso | e-Visa | — |
| Burundi | e-Visa | — |
| Cambodia | e-Visa | — |
| Cameroon | e-Visa | — |
| Cape Verde | e-Visa | — |
| Central African Republic | e-Visa | — |
| Chad | e-Visa | — |
| Chile | e-Visa | — |
| China | e-Visa | — |
| Colombia | e-Visa | — |
| Comoros | e-Visa | — |
| Costa Rica | e-Visa | — |
| Cuba | e-Visa | — |
| Djibouti | e-Visa | — |
| Dominica | e-Visa | — |
| Dominican Republic | e-Visa | — |
| DR Congo | e-Visa | — |
| Ecuador | e-Visa | — |
| Egypt | e-Visa | — |
| El Salvador | e-Visa | — |
| Equatorial Guinea | e-Visa | — |
| Eritrea | e-Visa | — |
| Eswatini | e-Visa | — |
| Ethiopia | e-Visa | — |
| Fiji | e-Visa | — |
| Gabon | e-Visa | — |
| Gambia | e-Visa | — |
| Georgia | e-Visa | — |
| Ghana | e-Visa | — |
| Grenada | e-Visa | — |
| Guatemala | e-Visa | — |
| Guinea | e-Visa | — |
| Guinea-Bissau | e-Visa | — |
| Guyana | e-Visa | — |
| Haiti | e-Visa | — |
| Honduras | e-Visa | — |
| India | e-Visa | — |
| Indonesia | e-Visa | — |
| Iran | e-Visa | — |
| Iraq | e-Visa | — |
| Israel | e-Visa | — |
| Ivory Coast | e-Visa | — |
| Jamaica | e-Visa | — |
| Jordan | e-Visa | — |
| Kazakhstan | e-Visa | — |
| Kenya | e-Visa | — |
| Kiribati | e-Visa | — |
| Kosovo | e-Visa | — |
| Kuwait | e-Visa | — |
| Kyrgyzstan | e-Visa | — |
| Laos | e-Visa | — |
| Lebanon | e-Visa | — |
| Lesotho | e-Visa | — |
| Liberia | e-Visa | — |
| Libya | e-Visa | — |
| Macao | e-Visa | — |
| Madagascar | e-Visa | — |
| Malawi | e-Visa | — |
| Maldives | e-Visa | — |
| Mali | e-Visa | — |
| Marshall Islands | e-Visa | — |
| Mauritania | e-Visa | — |
| Mauritius | e-Visa | — |
| Mexico | e-Visa | — |
| Micronesia | e-Visa | — |
| Moldova | e-Visa | — |
| Mongolia | e-Visa | — |
| Montenegro | e-Visa | — |
| Morocco | e-Visa | — |
| Mozambique | e-Visa | — |
| Myanmar | e-Visa | — |
| Namibia | e-Visa | — |
| Nauru | e-Visa | — |
| Nepal | e-Visa | — |
| Nicaragua | e-Visa | — |
| Niger | e-Visa | — |
| Nigeria | e-Visa | — |
| North Korea | e-Visa | — |
| North Macedonia | e-Visa | — |
| Oman | e-Visa | — |
| Pakistan | e-Visa | — |
| Palau | e-Visa | — |
| Palestine | e-Visa | — |
| Panama | e-Visa | — |
| Papua New Guinea | e-Visa | — |
| Paraguay | e-Visa | — |
| Peru | e-Visa | — |
| Philippines | e-Visa | — |
| Qatar | e-Visa | — |
| Republic of the Congo | e-Visa | — |
| Russia | e-Visa | — |
| Rwanda | e-Visa | — |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | e-Visa | — |
| Saint Lucia | e-Visa | — |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | e-Visa | — |
| Samoa | e-Visa | — |
| Sao Tome and Principe | e-Visa | — |
| Saudi Arabia | e-Visa | — |
| Senegal | e-Visa | — |
| Serbia | e-Visa | — |
| Seychelles | e-Visa | — |
| Sierra Leone | e-Visa | — |
| Solomon Islands | e-Visa | — |
| Somalia | Entry not permitted | — |
| South Africa | e-Visa | — |
| South Sudan | e-Visa | — |
| Sri Lanka | e-Visa | — |
| Sudan | e-Visa | — |
| Suriname | e-Visa | — |
| Syria | e-Visa | — |
| Tajikistan | e-Visa | — |
| Tanzania | e-Visa | — |
| Thailand | e-Visa | — |
| Timor-Leste | e-Visa | — |
| Togo | e-Visa | — |
| Tonga | e-Visa | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | e-Visa | — |
| Tunisia | e-Visa | — |
| Turkey | e-Visa | — |
| Turkmenistan | e-Visa | — |
| Tuvalu | e-Visa | — |
| Uganda | e-Visa | — |
| Ukraine | e-Visa | — |
| United Arab Emirates | e-Visa | — |
| Uruguay | e-Visa | — |
| Uzbekistan | e-Visa | — |
| Vanuatu | e-Visa | — |
| Venezuela | e-Visa | — |
| Vietnam | e-Visa | — |
| Yemen | e-Visa | — |
| Zambia | e-Visa | — |
| Zimbabwe | e-Visa | — |
Australia rules for every passport
Vaccinations, customs limits and penalties are the same for every traveller.
How much money you need to show
Applies to: e-Visa
Australia sets no figure for the visitor visa: you must have, or have access to, enough money to support yourself during the stay and to leave the country. Personal bank statements for the last three months, pay slips, tax records, term deposits or credit card statements count as proof. If a relative or friend living in Australia is paying for your stay, their invitation letter with proof of their funds will do.
Source: Australian Department of Home Affairs, Visitor visa (subclass 600). Checked on 1 November 2026.
Vaccinations
- No mandatory vaccines for general entry. A yellow fever certificate is required from travellers over 1 year of age arriving from (or having transited more than 12 hours through the airport of) a country with risk of transmission, not counting the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador), the island of Tobago or Misiones province in Argentina.
Customs limits
- Cash
- Carrying AUD 10,000 or more (or the foreign equivalent) is legal but must be declared.
- Alcohol
- 2.25 litres of alcohol duty-free per person aged 18 or over (families travelling together can pool their individual allowances).
- Tobacco
- One unopened packet of up to 25 cigarettes (or 25g of other tobacco products), plus one open packet of cigarettes, duty-free, only for those aged 18 or over.
Overstay penalties
Staying in Australia without a valid visa is unlawful: you become an "unlawful non-citizen", a status that covers both those who stay on after their visa expires and those whose visa has been cancelled. If you leave the country having been without a valid visa for more than 28 days, the Department can refuse you any further visa for an exclusion period of up to 3 years, except in limited circumstances. In some cases the exclusion is permanent.
Grounds for refusal
- Failing to show sufficient funds to support yourself during the stay and to pay for your departure ticket.
- Failing to satisfy the Department that you intend to return home at the end of the visit.
- Carrying an exclusion period from having previously been in Australia without a valid visa for more than 28 days.
Travel insurance
Each destination decides whether to require insurance, and some check it at the border. If yours does, make sure the policy covers the whole trip.
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Do you need a different visa for Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane?
No. Australia sets the requirements, so entering through Sydney asks for the same as entering through Melbourne or Brisbane. If you're arriving overland or through a small border post, check that separately: some countries apply their own rules to specific crossings.
What does change is where you file the application when a visa is needed, and that depends on the country you live in rather than the city you're travelling to.
What draws travellers to Australia
Australia is a continent and the distances are vast; you pick one corner. The south-east concentrates the cities: Sydney, with the Opera House (a World Heritage site) and the harbour, and Melbourne: and the Great Ocean Road with the Twelve Apostles. The tropical north-east has the Great Barrier Reef, the largest reef in the world and World Heritage, and the Daintree rainforest. The red centre is Uluru, the monolith sacred to Aboriginal peoples, also World Heritage. Australia has 20 UNESCO World Heritage sites, many of them natural. Two weeks cover Sydney, the reef and Uluru, flying between them. Being in the southern hemisphere, the seasons are reversed: the austral summer (December-February) is hot in the centre and good in the south; the tropical north is visited in the dry season (May-October).
Sources for this section: australia.com (Tourism Australia, the federal body); UNESCO World Heritage List (whc.unesco.org, 20 sites in Australia); UK FCDO travel advice for Australia. Accessed 31 August 2026.
Things to see and do in Australia
Tours, skip-the-line tickets and day trips, most with free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
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Where can Australia passport holders travel visa-free? →
Informational only. Always verify requirements with the official embassy or consulate before you travel.