Benin

Aevamo’s reading

Décret 2026-049 of 4 March 2026, taken in Council of Ministers under Loi 2025-15, is the instrument that imposes the obligation: it fixes the conditions and modalities of issue of entry visas, requires every foreigner to hold one unless dispensed, and defines the two routes out of it — an accord with Benin, or a special exemption by decree. Everything else held here operates under it: the ministry's database enumerates the accords of its first route, Décret 2023-489 is an exercise of its second, and the e-visa platform is the online channel its article 7 requires. Its stored copy is an image scan with no text layer, so no row quotes it and no figure is taken from it; each field is instead sourced to a document that can be quoted, and that substitution is stated on every row it affects.

Hong Kong has its own entry on the reciprocal-exemption list, and that entry states 14 days rather than the 90 days most parties receive, with the national passport among the covered documents; the term is read from the Hong Kong line itself and not from the general heading.