Cape Verde — visa on arrival abolished for 96 nationalities
Visa on arrival Visa required
Decree No. 244/GMAI/2025 (Boletim Oficial No. 223, 24 November 2025) took effect on 1 January 2026 and ended visa on arrival for nationals of 96 countries. Until then they could pre-register on the EASE portal, pay the tourist-visa fee online and collect the visa at the airport; now the visa must come from a Cape Verdean embassy or consulate before departure, and arriving without one is grounds for refusal of entry, transit or airport stopover. We were still serving "visa on arrival" to 90 of them — an answer that strands the traveller at check-in — and have corrected all 90. EASE pre-registration and the Airport Security Tax (~3,400 CVE for stays up to 30 days) stay mandatory for everyone, including visa-exempt visitors. Mauritania is named in the decree but our data has it visa-free rather than on arrival, so it is left unchanged pending its own source.
Who this affects
What has NOT changed
A change to the visa rule does not change these. They apply as before.