{"id":18138,"date":"2024-02-25T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/?p=18138"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:33:41","slug":"kenya-7-nationalities-eta-fee-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/blog\/kenya-7-nationalites-dispense-frais-eta\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 7 nationalities benefit from ETA fee waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan government recently decided to exempt nationals of 7 countries, including one in Europe, from paying the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) fee to enter the country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Countries exempt from ETA fees<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the<strong>South Africa<\/strong>other countries exempt from ETA fees are<strong>Ethiopia<\/strong>, l'<strong>Eritrea<\/strong>, THE <strong>Congo-Brazzaville<\/strong>the <strong>Comoros<\/strong>, THE <strong>Mozambique<\/strong> And <strong>San Marino<\/strong>. According to a memorandum from Kenya's Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration Department, these countries have visa abolition agreements or signed bilateral visa waiver agreements with the East African state.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The procedure for obtaining an ETA remains compulsory<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Although nationals of these 7 countries are exempt from paying ETA fees, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they must always obtain this document before entering Kenya<\/span>. ETA is <strong>valid for 90 days<\/strong> and must be applied for each time the traveler enters the country. To apply, travelers should visit the digital platform www.etakenya.go.ke or contact a private agency familiar with these procedures. It is important to note that members of the <em><strong>East African Community<\/strong><\/em> (EAC) are not subject to these formalities and therefore do not need to apply for an ETA.<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eta_kenya_exemption.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"699\" \/><\/h2>\n<p><strong>For other nationalities, the ETA fee is 30 USD (<span class=\"currency-convertor\" data-amount=\"30\" data-currency=\"USD\">26 &#8364;<\/span>)<\/strong>\u00a0per request and are non-refundable. The procedure can be carried out entirely online via the above-mentioned website. The ETA must be obtained <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Before<\/span> and is compulsory for all foreigners wishing to travel to Kenya, except for those mentioned above.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenyan government recently decided to exempt nationals of 7 countries, including one in Europe, from paying the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) fee to enter the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-18138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afrique","tag-kenya"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}