{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"SL","name":"Sierra Leone","slug":"sierra-leone"},"destination":{"code":"CI","name":"Côte d'Ivoire"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[{"label":"Up to 90 days","maxDays":90,"basis":"per_visit"}],"policies":[{"id":"cote-divoire-ecowas-and-aes-transition-ordinary-passport-short-visit-visa-exemption","title":"ECOWAS and AES-transition ordinary passports: Côte d’Ivoire short-visit visa exemption","summary":"The current ECOWAS roster identifies Côte d’Ivoire and eleven foreign current Member States. The ECOWAS Protocol provides their citizens visa-free entry for up to 90 days. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are no longer roster members, but ECOWAS's still-current withdrawal directive expressly continues their visa-free movement rights until further notice. This is a visa exemption, not an airport visa or electronic-visa route.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["The Protocol requires a valid travel document and international health certificate, requires entry through an official point, and sets a 90-day visitor limit; a longer stay needs permission from the competent authority.","A Member State may refuse admission to a Community citizen classed as an inadmissible immigrant under its laws. Border, health, identity, security and individual-admissibility controls therefore remain applicable.","The current roster excludes BF, ML and NE following their 29 January 2025 withdrawal. ECOWAS nevertheless directs relevant authorities to continue their citizens' visa-free movement rights until further notice. Their ordinary-passport treatment is conditional on the official transition arrangement, including recognition of national passports or identity cards bearing the ECOWAS logo; it must be rechecked if ECOWAS announces final future-relation modalities.","This policy does not normalize residence, employment, diplomatic, official, service, UN laissez-passer, refugee, special-document, transit or event-specific access."],"sourceIds":["ecowas-current-member-roster","ecowas-free-movement-protocol","ecowas-2025-aes-visa-free-movement-continuation"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"ecowas-current-member-roster","title":"ECOWAS Information System: current 12 Member States","url":"https://ecois.ecowas.int/","publisher":"Economic Community of West African States Commission","jurisdiction":"ECOWAS / Côte d’Ivoire","kind":"official-dataset","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"ecowas-free-movement-protocol","title":"Protocol A/P.1/5/79 on free movement of persons, residence and establishment","url":"https://ecowas.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PROTOCOL-RELATING-TO-FREE-MOVEMENT-OF-PERSONS.pdf","publisher":"Economic Community of West African States Commission","jurisdiction":"ECOWAS / Côte d’Ivoire","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"ecowas-2025-aes-visa-free-movement-continuation","title":"ECOWAS press statement on Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdrawal","url":"https://www.ecowas.int/press-statement-2/","publisher":"Economic Community of West African States Commission","jurisdiction":"ECOWAS / Côte d’Ivoire","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}