Bahamas Visa Cost Calculator

The tourist category is Bahamas's workhorse: single entry for tourism or family visits, and it comes with no consular fee attached. Travellers who expect to cross a border and return — regional side trips, contiguous-country loops — take the multi-entry option at 1.5× base, which for Bahamas still means no consular fee. Bahamas's business category asks for an invitation from the company you are visiting — the letter is the cost centre, not a government fee.

Transit is the effortless tier: a Bahamas layover of 24–72 hours usually needs no visa at all under visa-free transit rules — check your nationality's window. Check the official Bahamas portal first: where entry is fee-exempt, only third-party intermediaries charge — and they are optional for most nationalities.

Four inputs drive a Bahamas application: a passport valid six months beyond your stay, one compliant photo, proof of accommodation, and evidence you can fund the trip. Even the simplest route wants the core kit in digital form: Bahamas's online portal takes the same documents a consulate would, as scans instead of paper. Budget zero for the fee line and read every third-party checkout carefully: Bahamas charges no consular fee, so any payment request deserves scrutiny before you click.

Some Bahamas missions add a biometric appointment; if yours does, book it the day you file, because appointment queues usually outlast processing queues. File 4–6 weeks out for Bahamas; express handling rescues late plans at +50%, which the calculator above prices for your group size.

Start with the passport: Bahamas wants six months of validity left and two blank pages, and will reject against either. Bahamas's photo rule is the standard white-background print; bring a spare, because the application keeps the one you hand over. Show roughly $50–100 USD per day of stay in bank statements — for a 10-day Bahamas trip that means $500–1,000 visible and recent.

Round the file out with your flight itinerary and Bahamas lodging confirmations that match your dates exactly — mismatches draw queries. An invitation letter from a registered Bahamas company is the business-visa keystone; transit files live or die on the onward booking.

Standard processing for Bahamas runs 5–15 business days for tourist files, stretching toward three weeks for multi-entry and business categories in busy seasons. Express handling compresses the wait to 1–3 business days for Bahamas — and because entry is fee-exempt, the upgrade buys speed only, never a surcharge.

Most Bahamas refusals trace to fixable defects: an expiring passport, thin bank statements, or accommodation that stops a night short of the return flight. Reapplication after a Bahamas refusal is routine once the stated reason is addressed; decision letters name the defect explicitly. eVisa decisions for Bahamas often arrive inside 72 hours, making it the de facto express lane at standard price where your nationality qualifies.