Who needs a visa for Benin?
Sub-Saharan Africa · Porto-Novo
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Of 198 nationalities, 61 enter Benin with no paperwork at all. The rest: 137 must be approved before they travel.
- Government fee
- €50
- Typical decision
- 1 to 96 hours
- Stay permitted
- 30 or 90 days, as chosen in the application, counted from the entry date you state
This is the government's own portal. We are not paid to send you there.
Checked 18 October 2026 — read the fees and rules on evisa.bj
Worth knowing
- Applying through an embassy costs more than applying yourself online: Benin's own fee article lists €60, €85 and €110 for the same three e-Visas.
Photo requirements
We have not yet read the photo rules for Benin on an official page, so we print no sizes. Photo rules we have checked, and official links for the rest
Resize a photo in your browser. It is never uploaded.
What do you need?
Who needs what
No nationality matches that.
Visa free 61
Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.
- Algeria 90d
- Angola 90d
- Bahamas 90d
- Belize 90d
- Botswana 90d
- Burkina Faso 90d
- Burundi 90d
- Cameroon 90d
- Cape Verde 90d
- Central African Republic 90d
- Chad 90d
- China 30d
- Comoros 90d
- Côte d’Ivoire 90d
- Djibouti 90d
- Dominica 90d
- DR Congo 90d
- Egypt 90d
- Equatorial Guinea 90d
- Eritrea 90d
- Eswatini 90d
- Ethiopia 90d
- Gabon 90d
- Gambia 90d
- Ghana 90d
- Grenada 90d
- Guinea 90d
- Guinea-Bissau 90d
- Haiti 90d
- Hong Kong 14d
- Kenya 90d
- Lesotho 90d
- Liberia 90d
- Libya 90d
- Madagascar 90d
- Malawi 90d
- Malaysia 30d
- Mali 90d
- Mauritania 90d
- Mauritius 90d
- Morocco 90d
- Mozambique 90d
- Namibia 90d
- Niger 90d
- Nigeria 90d
- Republic of the Congo 90d
- Rwanda 90d
- Sao Tome and Principe 90d
- Senegal 90d
- Seychelles 90d
- Sierra Leone 90d
- Somalia 90d
- South Africa 90d
- South Sudan 90d
- Sudan 90d
- Tanzania 90d
- Togo 90d
- Tunisia 90d
- Uganda 90d
- Zambia 90d
- Zimbabwe 90d
eVisa (electronic visa) 137
A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Andorra
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates 30d
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
About Benin
- Region
- Western Africa
- Capital
- Porto-Novo
- Population
- 14,814,460 2025 · 75th of 197
- Size
- 112,622 km² 100th largest of 199
- Density
- 132 per km²
- Language
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc XOF
- Borders
- Burkina Faso Niger Nigeria Togo
Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.