# Niger passport to Côte d'Ivoire: Visa-free

Current access classification: **Visa-free** — No visa required before travel.

Access data checked August 24, 2026. Evidence status: **official evidence collected**.

This page concerns ordinary short visits unless an official source states otherwise. Authorities apply the current rule, and individual circumstances can change the applicable treatment.

## Evidence timeline

- **Current official route — ECOWAS and AES-transition ordinary passports: Côte d’Ivoire short-visit visa exemption** (Visa-free)
  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.
  - 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.
  Official sources:
  - [Economic Community of West African States Commission: ECOWAS Information System: current 12 Member States](https://ecois.ecowas.int/)
  - [Economic Community of West African States Commission: Protocol A/P.1/5/79 on free movement of persons, residence and establishment](https://ecowas.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PROTOCOL-RELATING-TO-FREE-MOVEMENT-OF-PERSONS.pdf)
  - [Economic Community of West African States Commission: ECOWAS press statement on Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdrawal](https://www.ecowas.int/press-statement-2/)

## Useful links

- [HTML evidence page](https://multipassrank.com/niger-cote-d-ivoire-visa-free)
- [Niger passport access](https://multipassrank.com/passport/niger)
- [All passport requirements for Côte d'Ivoire](https://multipassrank.com/destination/cote-d-ivoire)
- [Dataset license](https://multipassrank.com/data-license)