{"question":{"passport":"PRT","destination":"KEN","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"conditional","headline":"Travel authorisation, stay set by the visa","requirement":{"kind":"eta","message":"Before you travel: you need a travel authorisation (eTA).","schemeName":"eTA"},"stay":{"kind":"SET_BY_VISA","phrasing":"How long you may stay is set by your visa."},"conditions":[{"kind":"ENTRY_REQUIREMENT","text":"Possession of an eTA is not the final authority to enter the Republic of Kenya; admissibility is determined at the point of entry."}],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"kenya-cit-imm-regs","url":"https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/act/ln/2012/64/eng@2025-05-30/source.pdf","passage":"Each person intending to travel into the country shall apply to the Director for Electronic Travel Authorization through the electronic portal and be in possession of the Authorization before embarkation. … The category of persons set out in the Seventeenth Schedule are exempted from the requirement of obtaining eTA before travelling into the country. … PERSONS EXEMPTED FROM OBTAINING eTA","explanation":"Regulation 15B(1) requires every person travelling into Kenya to hold an Electronic Travel Authorization before embarkation, and regulation 15G confines the exemption to the categories in the Seventeenth Schedule; these issuers are on no list in that Schedule, so they must obtain an eTA in advance.","publisher":"THE KENYA CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS NO. 64 OF 2012 … Revised and published by the National Council for Law Reporting with the authority of the Attorney-General as gazetted by the Government Printer … Legislation as at 30 May 2025"},"checkedAt":"2026-08-20","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[],"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"}}