106 countries you can travel to visa-free with a South African passport in 2023

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106 countries you can travel to visa-free with a South African passport in 2023

With travel predominantly back to pre-pandemic levels, South African holidaymakers, movers, or businesspeople can travel to a handful of countries without the extra administration of getting a new visa.

 

[gregmcc]

Russian Federation.....niiiiice

 

[Harmonic]

Mostly other sh**holes with a few exceptions. Can't wait to book my trip to Guinea-Bissau Venezuela

 

[skimread]

I see UAE isn't on the list. Do you need a visa for that?

Pisses me off that Columbia is still requires a VISA

 

[Polymathic]

Interesting to see that Georgia is in Europe and Armenia is in the middle east

 

[Kelerei]

I see UAE isn't on the list. Do you need a visa for that?

Only if you plan on actually entering the UAE. If you're transiting through Dubai/Abu Dhabi and remaining airside, you're fine. My recent big international trip involved transit through Dubai: only 3-4 hour transit, remained airside (which was insufferable: Dubai International Airport is like Canal Walk on steroids, and not in a good way), the only time the passport was looked at was an identity check at the gate when boarding the onward flight.

 

[koeks525]

Only a few places of interest on that list. Majority of those destinations are a no-no for me. Though, the limitations of the ZAF passport is not an issue for dual-citizens

Also quite shocking that South Africa does not issue South African e-Passports. The country is so advanced, and we are not broke.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

we are not broke.

you sure about that?

South Africa Government Debt to GDP - 2022 Data - 2023 Forecast - 2000-2021 Historical

South Africa recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 69.90 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2021. Government Debt to GDP in South Africa averaged 44.12 percent of GDP from 2000 until 2021, reaching an all time high of 70.70 percent of GDP in 2020 and a record low of 27.80 percent...

tradingeconomics.com

 

[RunningFromFat]

Hows ireland?

 

[Wut]

Hows ireland?

Pretty nice if you can handle all the Irish folk

 

[konfab]

Hows Ireland?

Before or after they discovered whiskey?

 

[Kelerei]

Hows ireland?

The estranged side of my family is there. Suggest you avoid like the plague.

 

[rvZA]

Do a list of the countries offering 3-6 months access instead. Most of these countries offer only 14-30 days. On a 3-6 months no visa visit, you can easily leave SA and never return while working on settling somewhere else permanently. African countries not going to cut it. They are all failed.

 

[Aghori]

Russian Federation.....niiiiice

Got a trip to St Petes booked. Love winter in Russia.

 

[rvZA]

Got a trip to St Petes booked. Love winter in Russia.

I would easily go live in Russia if they could make immigration there easier or extend visa-free visits to 1 or 2 years at a time. Beautiful country and people.

 

[Kelerei]

On a 3-6 months no visa visit, you can easily leave SA and never return while working on settling somewhere else permanently.

This is extremely dangerous advice. Most visa-free stays are as a visitor only, prohibiting work: if you try to work on a visa-free stay, if caught by the relevant foreign authorities this will likely result in deportation back to South Africa. Working would require an appropriate visa. Additionally, if you cannot prove to the satisfaction of the relevant border officials that you have incentive to return to your country of origin, expect to be denied entry and sent home.

Exceptions to this do exist where there is freedom of movement between various countries (the EU being the biggest example, also the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement in my part of the world), but they are comparatively rare.

 

[rvZA]

This is extremely dangerous advice. Most visa-free stays are as a visitor only, prohibiting work: if you try to work on a visa-free stay, if caught by the relevant foreign authorities this will likely result in deportation back to South Africa. Working would require an appropriate visa. Additionally, if you cannot prove to the satisfaction of the relevant border officials that you have incentive to return to your country of origin, expect to be denied entry and sent home.

Exceptions to this do exist where there is freedom of movement between various countries (the EU being the biggest example, also the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement in my part of the world), but they are comparatively rare.

It is either that or the alternative of staying in SA. All to their own. Once abroad it is much easier finding work, arranging visas and settling than staying in a collapsing country where you have no opportunity, not even finding something abroad. At the end of the day... each to their own.

 

[Lufuno_]

The estranged side of my family is there. Suggest you avoid like the plague.

Ireland? One of the most beautiful countries I visited so far. What seemz to be ze problem ?

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

Whats the point of being a member of BRICS if we need to get a visa to travel to China and India?

 

[Lufuno_]

Whats the point of being a member of BRICS if we need to get a visa to travel to China and India?

Not many from SA visit China & India or do they? I mean apart from Indians & Chinese.