{"question":{"passport":"SYC","destination":"NGA","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"allowed","headline":"Visa-free, 90 days","requirement":{"kind":"none","message":"You can travel without arranging a visa."},"stay":{"kind":"DAYS","maxDays":90,"ruleType":"RESETS_ON_EXIT","phrasing":"You may stay up to 90 days."},"conditions":[],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"seychelles-nation-nigeria-visa-free","url":"https://www.nation.sc/archive/230202/seychellois-no-longer-need-visas-to-travel-to-nigeria","passage":"Seychellois no longer need visas to travel to Nigeria |06 April 2011\n…\nThis took effect on February 11, 2011 upon recommendations of the high commissioner and the tripartite committee set up by Dr Goodluck E. Jonathan in January 2011 to consider such a request from the government of Seychelles.\n…\n“The federal government of Nigeria is convinced that the abolition of visa requirements would strengthen relations between Nigeria and Seychelles and forge closer ties between the peoples of the two countries,” says a statement from the high commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Nairobi to Seychelles’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs.","explanation":"The Seychelles Nation is the other signatory's own state newspaper (published by Seychelles' National Information Services Agency) and it reports the abolition of the Nigerian visa requirement for Seychellois together with its commencement date, quoting the statement of the Nigerian High Commission in Nairobi that the federal government abolished the visa requirement. Nigeria's own text of the 2011 abolition is not obtainable (the Seychelles MFA visa page is unreadable and no Nigerian instrument records it), so under the two-publisher rule the other party's state publication carrying the destination's announcement is the evidence of the grant.","publisher":"Seychellois no longer need visas to travel to Nigeria |06 April 2011"},"checkedAt":"2026-08-30","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"}}