{"question":{"passport":"BFA","destination":"BEN","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"allowed","headline":"Free movement","requirement":{"kind":"free_movement","message":"Free movement. No limit under this regime."},"stay":{"kind":"NO_LIMIT","phrasing":"Free movement. No limit under this regime."},"conditions":[],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"mae-uemoa-cedeao","url":"https://diplomatie.gouv.bj/fr/representations/visas/uemoa_cedeao","passage":"PAYS SIGNATAIRES DES ACCORDS DE SUPPRESSION DE VISA AVEC LE BÉNIN … Sierra Leone … Pays membre de la CEDEAO … Protocole A/SP.1/5/79 de Dakar du 25 mai 1979 sur la libre circulation des personnes, le droit de résidence et d’établissement au sein de la CEDEAO … Burkina Faso … Article 91 du traité de l'UEMOA … Côte d'Ivoire … Guinée-Bissau … Mali … Niger … Sénégal … Togo … Cap-Vert … Gambia … Nigéria … Liberia … Ghana","explanation":"The ministry's database records no visa validity for these states at all: in place of a duration each entry reads 'Pays membre de la CEDEAO' or 'Pays membre de l'UEMOA', and the observation names the ECOWAS Protocol on free movement of persons, the right of residence and establishment, and Article 91 of the UEMOA Treaty. They are outside the visa regime rather than exempted within it, so no cap is imposed on them by this instrument.","publisher":"© Ministère des affaires étrangères - 2024"},"checkedAt":"2026-08-28","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[{"headline":"Visa-free, 90 days","conditions":[],"source":{"documentId":"gouv-africa-list","url":"https://www.gouv.bj/doc/151/download","passage":"LES RESSORTISSANTS DE CES PAYS\n                               SONT EXEMPTÉS DE VISA D’ENTRÉE AU\n                              BÉNIN SANS EXIGENCE DE RÉCIPROCITÉ\n\nTous les ressortissants des 53 Pays Africains peuvent entrer au Bénin et\ncirculer librement pendant une période de 03 mois soit 90 jours. … Voici la liste des 53 pays concernés :\n\n•   Afrique du Sud        •   Guinée Équatoriale •   République du Congo\n•   Algérie               •   Guinée-Bissau      •   République\n•   Angola                •   Kenya                  Démocratique du\n                                                     Congo\n•   Botswana              •   Lesotho\n                                                 •   Rwanda\n•   Burkina Faso          •   Libéria\n                                                 •   Sao Tomé-et-Principe\n•   Burundi               •   Libye\n                                                 •   Sénégal\n•   Cameroun              •   Madagascar\n                                                 •   Seychelles\n•   Cap-Vert              •   Malawi\n                                                 •   Sierra Leone\n•   Comores               •   Mali\n                                                 •   Somalie\n•   Côte d’Ivoire         •   Maroc\n                                                 •   Soudan\n•   Djibouti              •   Maurice\n                                                 •   Soudan du Sud\n•   Égypte                •   Mauritanie\n                                                 •   Tanzanie\n•   Érythrée              •   Mozambique\n                                                 •   Tchad\n•   Eswatini              •   Namibie\n                                                 •   Togo\n•   Éthiopie              •   Niger\n                                                 •   Tunisie\n•   Gabon                 •   Nigéria\n                                                 •   Zambie\n•   Gambie                •   Ouganda\n                                                 •   Zimbabwe\n•   Ghana                 •   République\n•   Guinée                    Centrafricaine","explanation":"The document's heading states that nationals of the listed countries are exempt from an entry visa to Benin without any requirement of reciprocity, the sentence beneath it gives the term as 03 months, i.e. 90 days, and the enumeration that follows names each of the 53 countries this row covers, so the rule and each issuer's entry are quoted together.","publisher":"Source : MAEC - Septembre 2020"}}],"scope":{"covers":["recorded entry requirement","recorded stay allowance"],"notEstablished":["personal admission decision","work permission","residence rights","tax position","individual eligibility for every condition"],"passportType":"ordinary"}}