Nine named African ordinary passports: Republic of the Congo visa exemption
API-Congo's live public-agency guidance expressly names these nine residual nationalities among the exhaustive exceptions to the Republic of the Congo's entry-visa requirement.
- Applies to short visitors using ordinary national passports issued by Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal or Togo.
- The official guidance does not state a waiver duration. Law No. 29-2017 defines a visitor stay as no more than three months, but the border authority controls the admitted stay.
- Work, residence, diplomatic or special documents, health rules, public-order controls, carrier requirements and final admission remain outside this nationality-wide visitor baseline.
Official sourcesInvestment Promotion Agency of the Republic of the Congo: Entering and working in the Republic of the CongoInvestment Promotion Agency of the Republic of the Congo: Presentation of API-CongoOfficial Journal / General Secretariat of the Government of the Republic of the Congo: Law No. 29-2017: conditions for entry, stay and exit of foreignersSecretariat-General of the Government, Republic of the Congo: Republic of the Congo Official Journal: 2025 application of the foreigner-entry statute