{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"DE","name":"Germany","slug":"germany"},"destination":{"code":"NE","name":"Niger"},"status":"visa_required","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-23","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"german-ordinary-passport-niger-advance-visitor-visa-2026","title":"German ordinary passports: Niger advance visitor visa","summary":"Niger's current official guidance requires ordinary German-passport holders to file an entry-visa application with a Niger mission before short visitor travel.","status":"visa_required","conditions":["The live Niger Embassy notice expressly names ordinary German-passport holders and directs them to lodge visa applications at Niger missions in Geneva, Ankara or Moscow.","Niger's Foreign Ministry states that normal filing is at a mission from the applicant's residence and gives a 15-day issuance time.","A border visa is exceptional, requires Interior Ministry authorisation, and is limited to departure from a country without a Niger diplomatic or consular mission; it is not the normal visitor baseline.","Diplomatic, service, transit, bilateral or community-exempt, residence, work and final-admission treatment are outside this classification."],"sourceIds":["niger-foreign-ministry-entry-conditions-2026","niger-brussels-embassy-german-ordinary-visa-filing-2025"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"niger-foreign-ministry-entry-conditions-2026","title":"Entry into Niger","url":"https://diplomatie.gouv.ne/index.php/services-aux-usagers/entree-au-niger","publisher":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, African Integration and Nigeriens Abroad","jurisdiction":"Niger","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-23"},{"id":"niger-brussels-embassy-german-ordinary-visa-filing-2025","title":"New arrangements for issuing Niger entry visas","url":"https://www.ambaniger-bruxelles.be/index.php/component/content/?view=featured","publisher":"Embassy of the Republic of Niger in Brussels","jurisdiction":"Niger","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-23"}]}