Seychelles: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: valid for the duration of your stay
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
valid for the duration of your stay
Your passport must be valid for the duration of your stay. You will be denied entry if you do not have a valid travel document or try to use a passport that has been reported lost or stolen. — travel authorisation
Visa
Not required
You must apply and pay for a travel authorisation online before you arrive. You can apply up to 30 days before you arrive. In an emergency, you can pay an extra fee for an express application. — Upon arrival, you get a visitor's permit for 3 months. You can apply for 3-month extensions, up to a maximum period of 12 months in total, if you meet visitor permit extension requirements. — The visitor's permit is free for the first 3 months, but there is a fee for each 3-month extension.
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Vaccination required on entry
yellow fever
required only if arriving from a country listed as a transmission risk
Yellow fever risk areas (WHO list)
Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad*, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia*, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya*, Liberia, Mali*, Mauritania*, Niger*, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan*, Togo, Uganda
Americas: Argentina*, Bolivia*, Brazil*, Colombia*, Ecuador*, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama*, Paraguay*, Peru*, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago*, Venezuela*
* only in parts of the country
A country may apply its own list: the official text above prevails.
Source: WHO, International Travel and Health, Annex 1, 18 November 2022, revised 3 January 2023 ↗