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CI: online registration and payment precede visa issuance at Abidjan airport. BD: eligible travellers apply online before departure and receive the visa at arrival for up to 30 days. KH: tourist visas are available directly at all international air, land, sea and river borders.","GA, TM, CI and BD are visa_on_arrival because the visa itself is issued at the border after an online or pre-authorisation step. This excludes final admission and route-specific exclusions."],"sourceIds":["fr-dj","fr-km","fr-tm","ga-dgdi-evisa","fr-ci","fr-bd","fr-kh"]},{"id":"cote-divoire-residual-preapproved-airport-visa-2026","title":"Residual ordinary passports use Côte d’Ivoire's preapproved airport-issued visa","summary":"Côte d’Ivoire's current visitor baseline and live finite exemption schedule identify the visa-liable residual; SNEDAI requires approval before boarding but prints and issues the biometric visa at Abidjan airport.","status":"visa_on_arrival","conditions":["This policy covers only the ordinary-passport short-visitor residual after the live SNEDAI exemption schedule and separately supported current treaty or nationality exceptions are excluded.","Complete online pre-enrolment, upload the required passport, return-ticket and invitation or accommodation documents, pay the fee and wait for D.S.T. approval before boarding.","Present the approved pre-enrolment, payment receipt, passport and yellow-fever certificate at Abidjan airport; biometric enrolment, printing and visa issuance occur there.","The visa is described as three-month multiple-entry; that is not normalized as a permitted stay length. Document validity, health rules and final admission remain separate."],"sourceIds":["cote-divoire-mfa-current-visitor-visa-baseline-2026","cote-divoire-snedai-live-exemption-schedule-2026","cote-divoire-snedai-arrival-visa"],"application":{"url":"https://snedai.com/e-visa/","label":"Côte d’Ivoire official visa pre-enrolment","steps":["Submit the ordinary-passport pre-enrolment, required documents and payment online.","Wait for the D.S.T. approved response and print it before boarding.","Complete biometric enrolment at Abidjan airport, where the visa is printed and issued."]}}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"fr-dj","title":"France Diplomatie: Djibouti entry and stay","url":"https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/information-par-pays/djibouti/conseils-aux-voyageurs-entree-sejour","publisher":"Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères","jurisdiction":"France","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"fr-km","title":"France Diplomatie: Comoros entry and stay","url":"https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/information-par-pays/comores/conseils-aux-voyageurs-entree-sejour","publisher":"Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères","jurisdiction":"France","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"fr-tm","title":"France Diplomatie: Turkmenistan entry and stay","url":"https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/information-par-pays/turkmenistan/conseils-aux-voyageurs-entree-sejour","publisher":"Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères","jurisdiction":"France","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"ga-dgdi-evisa","title":"Gabon DGDI: e-Visa platform","url":"https://evisa.dgdi.ga/","publisher":"Direction Générale de la Documentation et de l’Immigration","jurisdiction":"Gabon","kind":"official-portal","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"fr-ci","title":"France Diplomatie: Côte d’Ivoire entry and stay","url":"https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/information-par-pays/cote-d-ivoire/conseils-aux-voyageurs-entree-sejour","publisher":"Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères","jurisdiction":"France","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"fr-bd","title":"France Diplomatie: Bangladesh entry and stay","url":"https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/files/files/pdf/cav/Bangladesh%20-%20Minist%C3%A8re%20de%20l%27Europe%20et%20des%20Affaires%20%C3%A9trang%C3%A8res.pdf","publisher":"Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères","jurisdiction":"France","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"fr-kh","title":"France Diplomatie: Cambodia entry and stay","url":"https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/information-par-pays/cambodge/conseils-aux-voyageurs-entree-sejour","publisher":"Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères","jurisdiction":"France","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"cote-divoire-mfa-current-visitor-visa-baseline-2026","title":"Conseils aux voyageurs: formalités de visa","url":"https://www.diplomatie.gouv.ci/informations-utiles/conseils-aux-voyageurs","publisher":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Côte d’Ivoire","jurisdiction":"Côte d’Ivoire","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-27"},{"id":"cote-divoire-snedai-live-exemption-schedule-2026","title":"List of countries exempt from an entry visa in Côte d’Ivoire","url":"https://snedai.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Capture-de%CC%81cran-2024-04-12-a%CC%80-17.31.17.png","publisher":"SNEDAI, State-approved Côte d’Ivoire visa service","jurisdiction":"Côte d’Ivoire","kind":"official-dataset","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-27"},{"id":"cote-divoire-snedai-arrival-visa","title":"Côte d'Ivoire official SNEDAI: e-visa procedure","url":"https://snedai.com/e-visa/","publisher":"SNEDAI, official Côte d'Ivoire visa service","jurisdiction":"Côte d'Ivoire","kind":"official-portal","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}