One of my dreams is to travel the world, but I don’t think I can achieve that in the near future since I am not well-off and may have a hard time getting approval for a tourist visa application, especially that I am a Filipino. So, I thought of researching on what countries can Filipinos visit for several days or months, but doesn’t really require them, or us, to apply for a tourist visa just to get there. Meaning, what Filipinos all need to travel to these countries are valid passports, money for the visit, and return tickets. Before doing the research, I assumed I could only find around 10 countries, but I found more. Most of the countries though are in Asia, and others are islands. I listed them below together with the maximum number of days allowed to stay as a tourist. The countries are:
- Andorra – 90 days
- Bermuda – 90 days
- Bolivia – 90 days
- Brazil – 90 days (Business visa is also not required)
- Brunei – 14 days
- Burundi – unknown days
- Colombia – 180 days
- Comoros – 90 days
- Cook Islands – 31 days
- Costa Rica – unknown days
- Ecuador – 90 days (Business visa is also not required)
- Fiji – tourist not required
- Galapagos islands – Tourist, Business, and Official visa not required
- Haiti – 90 days
- Hong Kong – 14 days
- Indonesia – 30 days
- Israel – 90 days
- Jeju island in South Korea- 30 days
- Macau – 30 days
- Malaysia – 30 days
- Maldives – 30 days
- Micronesia – 30 days
- Mongolia – 21 days
- Morocco – 90 days
- Oman – unknown days
- Palestine – Tourist, Business, and Official visa not required
- Peru – 90 days
- Saint Helena – 90 days
- Samoa – unknown days
- Seychelees 30 days
- Singapore – tourist visa not required
- Sri lanka – 30 days
- South Korea – Citizens of the following countries will not be charged an Embassy fee for a South Korea visa: Italy, Japan, Philippines (up to 59 days stay), Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom. (I don’t know what this really means. In this site, it says, tourist and business visa is required but official visa is not… hmmm)
- Suriname – 90 days
- Thailand – 30 days
- Tuvalu – 90 days
Source: http://www.visahq.com/visas.php
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Note: Before hitting the publish button, I decided to Google “Don’t Require Tourist Visas For Filipinos, and I found this article. I didn’t realize someone already had thought of posting an article about this topic. The article was good since the countries were listed according to their regions.
