🇹🇬 Togo visa requirements

Togo stopped issuing visas on arrival. Everyone who is not an African Union national now applies for an eVisa before boarding, and the portal wants several working days, so this is not a trip you sort out at the airport.

Who gets what stamp

Citizens of African Union member states enter visa-free, generally for 30 days, with ECOWAS nationals covered under the long-standing free-movement arrangement and Moroccans getting a longer allowance. Everyone else, US, UK, Canadian, Australian and EU passports included, needs an eVisa applied for in advance through the government portal. Apply with at least a week of margin: the stated processing window runs to about five working days and the system does not do favours for last-minute travellers. Whatever your status, every arrival completes an immigration form within 24 hours of landing, so keep your accommodation details to hand.

How long can you actually stay

The eVisa is issued in tiers, priced by validity and by how many entries you get, from a short single-entry stay up to a three-month multiple-entry option. Pick the tier before you apply rather than after you arrive, because that initial stamp is usually single-entry: hop over to Benin or Ghana on one and you will not get back in on the same visa. Overstaying accrues a daily fine that Togolese immigration collects before it stamps you out, which is how an overstay someone meant to settle at the airport becomes a missed flight, and it complicates any later application. Make sure you actually get an exit stamp on the way out.

What's new on the visa front

The move to eVisa-only is the change that matters, and it caught out a lot of people who arrived expecting the old visa-on-arrival desk to still be there. The official portal is run by the Togolese government at the address published on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site; use that link rather than a search result, because the eVisa space attracts lookalike sites charging a markup for the same government form. Fees and validity tiers are published on the portal and are revised from time to time, so read them there instead of budgeting off an older figure.