Nigeria passport to Ivory Coast

Up to 90 days. This is short-stay visitor policy only. It does not let you work, study or settle in Ivory Coast — that needs a residence permit.

Visa-free · 90 days for Nigeria passport holders.

Nigeria

Ivory CoastShort stay

Visa-free · 90 days

Nigeria passport holders can enter Ivory Coast without a visa and stay up to 90 days.

This is short-stay visitor policy only. It does not let you work, study or settle in Ivory Coast — that needs a residence permit.

How long you can stay: Up to 90 days
Ivory Coast passports in Nigeria: Visa-free
Getting in: No application. Ivory Coast's border officers decide how long you get, up to 90 days, and can ask for an onward ticket and proof you can support yourself, so carry both.

Long stay

Staying in Ivory Coast longer

The carte de résident is a flat XOF 300,000 for non-ECOWAS nationals, reduced to XOF 150,000 for French citizens under a bilateral arrangement and XOF 35,000 for clergy and French cooperants; the same scale applies on renewal, with an optional VIP service at XOF 15,000.
Work-contract visa + carte de travail + carte de résident
Citizens of the fifteen ECOWAS member states — Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Benin, Togo, Niger, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Cabo Verde and Côte d'Ivoire itself.
ECOWAS free movement (no residence permit at all)
In practice, a consular card issued by your own country's mission in Abidjan, which is what Ivorian authorities accept as identification for an ECOWAS national
ECOWAS free movement (no residence permit at all)
Retired non-ECOWAS nationals who want to settle in Côte d'Ivoire on a foreign pension.
Retiree carte de résident (bulletin de pension)

Living here takes a residence permit. 6 routes researched:

What changes

GDP and population: World Bank.

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