Canada entry requirements, by passport
Canada visa requirements at a glance: 54 of the 198 passports VisaRadar tracks can enter Canada without arranging a visa beforehand: visa-free, with a visa on arrival, or with an electronic travel authorisation. The other 144 must obtain a visa before they travel.
Which passport do you hold?
We'll take you straight to the entry requirements for Canada for your nationality.
What we've verified for Canada
Beyond the yes/no matrix, we've checked these against an official primary source (last checked 10 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: 7 CAD
- Typical processing time
- Required documents (3)
- Money you need to show on entry
- Required vaccinations
- Health-insurance rules
- Customs limits (cash, alcohol, tobacco)
- Overstay penalties
- Stay and transit rules
Sources: canada.ca/.../eta.html, cbsa-asfc.gc.ca (customs and exemptions) (checked 10 August 2026).
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: 10 August 2026.
| Passport | Requirement | Max. stay |
|---|---|---|
| Visa-free | ||
| Andorra | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Australia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Austria | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Bahamas | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Barbados | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Belgium | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Brunei | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Bulgaria | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Chile | 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) | — |
| Israel | 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) | — |
| Malta | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Monaco | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Netherlands | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| New Zealand | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Norway | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Papua New Guinea | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Poland | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Portugal | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Qatar | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Romania | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Samoa | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| San Marino | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Singapore | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Slovakia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Slovenia | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Solomon Islands | 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 Arab Emirates | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| United Kingdom | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| United States | Visa-free | 180 days |
| Vatican | Electronic authorisation (ETA) | — |
| Visa required | ||
| Afghanistan | Visa required | — |
| Albania | Visa required | — |
| Algeria | Visa required | — |
| Angola | Visa required | — |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Visa required | — |
| Argentina | Visa required | — |
| Armenia | Visa required | — |
| Azerbaijan | Visa required | — |
| Bahrain | Visa required | — |
| Bangladesh | Visa required | — |
| Belarus | Visa required | — |
| Belize | Visa required | — |
| Benin | Visa required | — |
| Bhutan | Visa required | — |
| Bolivia | Visa required | — |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Visa required | — |
| Botswana | Visa required | — |
| Brazil | Visa required | — |
| Burkina Faso | Visa required | — |
| Burundi | Visa required | — |
| Cambodia | Visa required | — |
| Cameroon | Visa required | — |
| Cape Verde | Visa required | — |
| Central African Republic | Visa required | — |
| Chad | Visa required | — |
| China | Visa required | — |
| Colombia | Visa required | — |
| Comoros | Visa required | — |
| Costa Rica | Visa required | — |
| Cuba | Visa required | — |
| Djibouti | Visa required | — |
| Dominica | Visa required | — |
| Dominican Republic | Visa required | — |
| DR Congo | Visa required | — |
| Ecuador | Visa required | — |
| Egypt | Visa required | — |
| El Salvador | Visa required | — |
| Equatorial Guinea | Visa required | — |
| Eritrea | Visa required | — |
| Eswatini | Visa required | — |
| Ethiopia | Visa required | — |
| Fiji | Visa required | — |
| Gabon | Visa required | — |
| Gambia | Visa required | — |
| Georgia | Visa required | — |
| Ghana | Visa required | — |
| Grenada | Visa required | — |
| Guatemala | Visa required | — |
| Guinea | Visa required | — |
| Guinea-Bissau | Visa required | — |
| Guyana | Visa required | — |
| Haiti | Visa required | — |
| Honduras | Visa required | — |
| India | Visa required | — |
| Indonesia | Visa required | — |
| Iran | Visa required | — |
| Iraq | Visa required | — |
| Ivory Coast | Visa required | — |
| Jamaica | Visa required | — |
| Jordan | Visa required | — |
| Kazakhstan | Visa required | — |
| Kenya | Visa required | — |
| Kiribati | Visa required | — |
| Kosovo | Visa required | — |
| Kuwait | Visa required | — |
| Kyrgyzstan | Visa required | — |
| Laos | Visa required | — |
| Lebanon | Visa required | — |
| Lesotho | Visa required | — |
| Liberia | Visa required | — |
| Libya | Visa required | — |
| Macao | Visa required | — |
| Madagascar | Visa required | — |
| Malawi | Visa required | — |
| Malaysia | Visa required | — |
| Maldives | Visa required | — |
| Mali | Visa required | — |
| Marshall Islands | Visa required | — |
| Mauritania | Visa required | — |
| Mauritius | Visa required | — |
| Mexico | Visa required | — |
| Micronesia | Visa required | — |
| Moldova | Visa required | — |
| Mongolia | Visa required | — |
| Montenegro | Visa required | — |
| Morocco | Visa required | — |
| Mozambique | Visa required | — |
| Myanmar | Visa required | — |
| Namibia | Visa required | — |
| Nauru | Visa required | — |
| Nepal | Visa required | — |
| Nicaragua | Visa required | — |
| Niger | Visa required | — |
| Nigeria | Visa required | — |
| North Korea | Visa required | — |
| North Macedonia | Visa required | — |
| Oman | Visa required | — |
| Pakistan | Visa required | — |
| Palau | Visa required | — |
| Palestine | Visa required | — |
| Panama | Visa required | — |
| Paraguay | Visa required | — |
| Peru | Visa required | — |
| Philippines | Visa required | — |
| Republic of the Congo | Visa required | — |
| Russia | Visa required | — |
| Rwanda | Visa required | — |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Visa required | — |
| Saint Lucia | Visa required | — |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Visa required | — |
| Sao Tome and Principe | Visa required | — |
| Saudi Arabia | Visa required | — |
| Senegal | Visa required | — |
| Serbia | Visa required | — |
| Seychelles | Visa required | — |
| Sierra Leone | Visa required | — |
| Somalia | Entry not permitted | — |
| South Africa | Visa required | — |
| South Sudan | Visa required | — |
| Sri Lanka | Visa required | — |
| Sudan | Visa required | — |
| Suriname | Visa required | — |
| Syria | Visa required | — |
| Tajikistan | Visa required | — |
| Tanzania | Visa required | — |
| Thailand | Visa required | — |
| Timor-Leste | Visa required | — |
| Togo | Visa required | — |
| Tonga | Visa required | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Visa required | — |
| Tunisia | Visa required | — |
| Turkey | Visa required | — |
| Turkmenistan | Visa required | — |
| Tuvalu | Visa required | — |
| Uganda | Visa required | — |
| Ukraine | Visa required | — |
| Uruguay | Visa required | — |
| Uzbekistan | Visa required | — |
| Vanuatu | Visa required | — |
| Venezuela | Visa required | — |
| Vietnam | Visa required | — |
| Yemen | Visa required | — |
| Zambia | Visa required | — |
| Zimbabwe | Visa required | — |
Canada rules for every passport
Vaccinations, customs limits and penalties are the same for every traveller.
How much money you need to show
Applies to: Visa required
Canada sets no figure. For the visitor visa it asks for enough money for your stay, and how much depends on how long you stay and whether you will be in a hotel or with friends or relatives.
Source: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), eligibility for a visitor visa. Checked on 1 November 2026.
Vaccinations
- No mandatory vaccines for entry. The international vaccination certificate is asked of nobody: not the yellow fever one, and not even of travellers arriving from a country with risk of transmission. That is what the country has declared in the International Health Regulations list.
Customs limits
- Cash
- Declare if cash or monetary instruments reach or exceed 10,000 CAD.
- Alcohol
- 1.5 litres of wine, or 1.14 litres of spirits, or 8.5 litres of beer: only after 48h or more outside Canada; not combinable between companions.
- Tobacco
- 200 cigarettes, 50 cigars, 200g of manufactured tobacco, and 200 tobacco sticks.
Overstay penalties
Every temporary resident must leave Canada when their authorised period ends. Those who do not are in breach of IRPA and face enforcement action: arrest and removal, led by the CBSA: and may have a removal order issued against them. An exclusion order means you cannot return to Canada for 1 year from the date it is enforced; where the order was issued for misrepresentation, the bar is 5 years. Returning sooner requires an Authorization to Return to Canada (ARC).
Grounds for refusal
- Failing to show sufficient funds for the stay and for the journey home.
- Failing to produce a ticket and itinerary showing when you plan to return.
- Carrying an exclusion order from an earlier irregular stay: it bars entry for 1 year from enforcement, or 5 years where it was issued for misrepresentation, and returning sooner requires an Authorization to Return to Canada (ARC).
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 Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal?
No. Canada sets the requirements, so entering through Toronto asks for the same as entering through Vancouver or Montreal. 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 Canada
Canada is vast and travelled in bands, not coast to coast in one trip. The west has the Rockies: Banff, Lake Louise, the Icefields Parkway, Jasper: with Vancouver as the gateway. The east holds the cities: Toronto and its CN Tower, Niagara Falls, Montreal, and the walled old town of Quebec City, a World Heritage site and the only one of its kind in North America. The Maritime provinces (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) are coastline, lighthouses and fishing villages. The polar north (Yukon, Northwest Territories) is a separate nature destination. Canada has 22 UNESCO World Heritage sites, most of them natural. A week covers the Rockies or the Toronto-Montreal-Quebec corridor, not both. Summer (June-September) is peak season; autumn turns the east red and winter is long and very cold except on the Pacific coast.
Sources for this section: destinationcanada.com (Destination Canada, the federal tourism body); UNESCO World Heritage List (whc.unesco.org, 22 sites in Canada); UK FCDO travel advice for Canada. Accessed 31 August 2026.
Things to see and do in Canada
Tours, skip-the-line tickets and day trips, most with free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
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Where can Canada passport holders travel visa-free? →
Informational only. Always verify requirements with the official embassy or consulate before you travel.