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Entry rule

Visa-free, 90 days

The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.

Entry rule for 12 September 2026 Source checked 20 August 2026
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Official wording

4. Nationals of the following Countries for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days— … Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cyrus, Dominica, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji Island, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malaysia, Maldives, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Union of Comoros, Samoa, San Marino, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, St. Kitts and Navis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Swaziland, Seychelles, The Bahamas, The Gambia, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, The Republic of Congo (Brazaville), Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Aevamo’s reading

Regulations 15B and 15G, made under section 59 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, impose the Electronic Travel Authorization requirement on every person travelling into Kenya and define — through the Seventeenth Schedule — the only categories exempt from it; this is the instrument that creates the obligation, not a description of one created elsewhere.

Item 4 of the Seventeenth Schedule lists exactly the nationalities in this row and exempts them from the eTA for a stay not exceeding ninety days, so they need no advance authorisation and may stay up to 90 days.

Source details

Source checked
20 August 2026
Data snapshot
10 September 2026
Publisher
THE KENYA CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS NO. 64 OF 2012 … Revised and published by the National Council for Law Reporting with the authority of the Attorney-General as gazetted by the Government Printer … Legislation as at 30 May 2025
Reference ID
kenya-cit-imm-regs
How the documents behind this regime are dated

Legislation as at 30 May 2025 (Kenya Law point-in-time consolidation); the operative amendment L.N. 93/2025 took effect on 30 May 2025.

What this answer covers Limits & assumptions

Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.

Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.