{"question":{"passport":"TUR","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":[{"headline":"Visa-free, 90 days","conditions":[{"kind":"DOCUMENT_CLASS","text":"The exemption applies only to a holder of a Diplomatic, Official, Special or Service passport of the Republic of Turkey (and covered family members), for a transit or stay not exceeding 90 days."}],"source":{"documentId":"kenya-cit-imm-regs","url":"https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/act/ln/2012/64/eng@2025-05-30/source.pdf","passage":"30. Holders of Diplomatic, Official, Special, and Service Passports, from The Republic of Turkey and members of their families holding valid Diplomatic, Official, Special, and Service Passports, while on Transit or Stay not exceeding ninety (90) days.","explanation":"The named item of the Seventeenth Schedule exempts holders of the specified passport classes of this state from the eTA for the stated period, so a holder of that document class needs no advance authorisation.","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"}}],"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"}}