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Senegal visa requirements

Current entry categories for 199 passport nationalities, paired with official evidence as it is reviewed.

Access data checked August 24, 20264 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free20Visa required178
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

20

Visa required

178
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  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Category A ordinary passports: Senegal visa exemption

    Senegal's current detailed consular schedule places these ordinary passports in Category A or its reciprocal visa-exemption arrangements. ECOWAS and temporary AES movement rules directly support the Community portion, while the schedule names the five additional ordinary-passport reciprocal exemptions.

    • For Community citizens, the ECOWAS Protocol requires a valid travel document and international health certificate, permits a short visit of up to 90 days through an official entry point, and preserves Senegal's right to refuse an inadmissible immigrant.
    • BF, ML and NE are the AES States. The current detailed Category A schedule expressly continues their visa exemption until further notice; the remaining mapped Community passports are covered by the Category A schedule.
    • The current consular schedule separately names CF, CG, MA, MU and TN as ordinary reciprocal visa-exemption countries. It requires a valid passport, repatriation guarantee/return or onward ticket, and health certificate as applicable.
    • The 2026 Foreign Ministry health notice says the vaccination card is not mandatory for entrants not arriving from epidemic/endemic-country situations; changing public-health controls may still apply.
    • This excludes residence, employment, study, transit, refugee status, diplomatic, service, official and mission-based document treatment. Official passports and ordinary passports on official mission have distinct conditional exemptions.
    20 passport nationalities covered

    Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Congo (Rep.), Morocco, Mauritania, Mauritius, Tunisia

    Official sourcesConsulate General of Senegal in Paris: Senegal Consulate General in Paris: visa application and Categories A, B and CEconomic Community of West African States: ECOWAS Protocol A/P.1/5/79 relating to free movement of persons, residence and establishmentMinistry of African Integration, Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad: Senegal entry: update to international vaccination-certificate conditions
  2. Current official routeVisa required

    Other foreign ordinary passports: Senegal advance consular visa

    Senegal's current detailed consular schedule states that Category B requires a visa without mandatory Interior consultation, Category C requires prior Interior authorisation, and every passport absent from the lists follows Category C. This is an explicit complete advance-visa default, not inference from application availability.

    • Category B still requires a visa but has optional Interior consultation. Category C requires an authorisation of entry issued after application to the Ministry of the Interior; passports absent from all lists are expressly subject to the same Category C conditions.
    • The consular authority says the visa is issued by Senegalese diplomatic or consular authorities. This supports visa_required rather than evisa, visa_on_arrival or ETA; no current official source reviewed establishes a nationality-wide electronic or airport-issuance visitor alternative for this residual cohort.
    • Required materials vary by category but include passport validity of at least six months, visa form, photos, return/onward or repatriation evidence, accommodation and health documentation. Category C applicants are advised to apply two months in advance.
    • The current Foreign Ministry overview, retained from the 2015 regime, lists a materially broader visa-free cohort (including many European and other passports) than the detailed Category A/B/C page. The latter is used because it contains the post-2025 AES treatment and explicit Category C default; the conflict is a material review risk.
    • Work, residence, study, transit, refugee, diplomatic, official, service and official-mission exceptions are excluded. Issuance and entry remain subject to individual security, health and immigration assessment.
    178 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Malta, United Kingdom, Hungary, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, United States, Croatia, Iceland, Monaco, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Chile, Hong Kong (SAR China), Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Brunei, Israel, St. Kitts and Nevis, The Bahamas, Seychelles, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, Mexico, Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City, Costa Rica, Grenada, Panama, Paraguay, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Macao (SAR China), Ukraine, Dominica, Peru, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Serbia, Solomon Islands, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Samoa, Tonga, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Montenegro, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Tuvalu, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kiribati, Micronesia, Palau Islands, Moldova, Russian Federation, Venezuela, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, South Africa, Kuwait, Timor-Leste, Ecuador, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Fiji, Bahrain, Vanuatu, Guyana, Nauru, China, Jamaica, Kosovo, Oman, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Bolivia, Belarus, Suriname, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Namibia, eSwatini, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Azerbaijan, Rwanda, Philippines, Uganda, Zambia, Armenia, Mongolia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Madagascar, Cuba, Gabon, India, Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Tajikistan, Comoro Islands, Angola, Chad, Burundi, Cameroon, Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, Jordan, Bhutan, Haiti, Laos, Djibouti, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Ethiopia, Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, Libya, Sri Lanka, Eritrea, Iran, Palestinian Territory, Bangladesh, North Korea, Nepal, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesConsulate General of Senegal in Paris: Senegal Consulate General in Paris: visa application and Categories A, B and CMinistry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs of Senegal: Ministry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs: visa requestMinistry of African Integration, Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad: Senegal entry: update to international vaccination-certificate conditions