Visa requirements for Ivorian citizens

Ivorian citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Ivory Coast and 53 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

145 countries ask holders of the Ivorian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Ivory Coast without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola and 140 others.

95 countries ask holders of the Ivorian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 18 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Ivory Coast.

77 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Ivory Coast, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Ivory Coast, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Ghana (6), Nigeria (4) and Mali (2).

The United States refused 37% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Ivory Coast in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 110 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 86 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Ivory Coast refused 31% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 20th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Ivorian passport

By continent, the Ivorian passport is visa-free in 22 countries in Africa, 4 countries in the Americas, 2 countries in Asia and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Ivorian citizens are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), the Central African Republic (90 days), Ghana (90 days), the Gambia (90 days) and Haiti (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Ivorian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iran and 17 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Ivorian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 43 others. Suriname asks instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Ivory Coast’s neighbours

Liberia, Ghana, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Mali admit Ivorian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Ghanaian passport ranks 132nd (65 destinations), the passport of Burkina Faso ranks 153rd (55 destinations), the Guinean passport ranks 156th (54 destinations), the Malian passport ranks 162nd (51 destinations) and the Liberian passport ranks 170th (48 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 23 can enter visa-free and 175 need an ETA for Ivory Coast.