What the Kazakhstan visa rules mean for Nigeria travellers
Nigeria passport holders need an eVisa to enter Kazakhstan. You apply online, upload a passport scan and a photo, pay the fee and receive the visa by email; it allows stays of up to 30 days. Apply at least one to two weeks before your trip and print the approval — some airlines and border officers ask to see it on paper.
The main option is the Tourist electronic visa (category B12), which costs 60 USD.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Kazakhstan applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: The UK government says your passport must be valid for at least 30 days from the date you arrive in Kazakhstan and have at least one blank page, and that if you have a visa for Kazakhstan your passport must have an expi…
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: WHO lists Kazakhstan as requiring proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission, including travellers who transited through the airport of such a countr…
- Travel insurance: No official source we could read states whether travel insurance is required to enter Kazakhstan. The UK Foreign Office says the medical facilities in Kazakhstan are not as advanced as in the UK and tells travellers to …
- Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read states whether an onward or return ticket is required to enter Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan entry rules compared
Kazakhstan lets 87 passports in without a visa, offers a visa on arrival to 1, issues eVisas to 94 and requires an embassy visa from 16. Nigeria citizens are treated the same way as Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana and Burkina Faso. Overall the Nigeria passport ranks #155 in the world with 26 visa-free destinations.
More travel options
In the other direction, Kazakhstan citizens need evisa to visit Nigeria.