What you need to enter Cape Verde with a Guinean passport
Guinean citizens do not need a visa to travel to Cape Verde: a passport is enough.
- Processing time
- Not applicable: direct entry with your passport.
- Entry fee
- 3,400 CVE
- Minimum passport validity
- No minimum: it just has to be valid
Last verified: 23 August 2026
Verified practical details
You don't need a visa to enter Cape Verde, but here are some practical details worth knowing before you travel:
Authorisation system
EASE (mandatory pre-registration) + Visa
Every traveller, including those who are visa-exempt, must complete EASE pre-registration and pay the Airport Security Tax (TSA) there, preferably 5 days in advance. Among those exempt are children under 2, residents of Cape Verde and holders of a Cape Verdean passport. Anyone arriving without pre-registration does it at the border and pays the tax plus a penalty surcharge. Since 1 January 2026, nationals of the 91 countries on the official mandatory-visa list must obtain a visa from an embassy or consulate before arrival, including for transit or an airport stopover; without it, entry is refused. If a nationality appears on neither that list nor the list of exempt countries, the Government refers travellers to the nearest Cape Verdean embassy or consulate.
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3,400 CVE
Airport Security Tax (TSA) on international flights: CVE 3,400, paid when completing EASE pre-registration. Anyone who does not do it before travelling pays the tax at the border plus a penalty surcharge, whose amount is not published by any official source we consulted. Children under 2, transit passengers and residents of Cape Verde, among others, are exempt. The consular visa, for those who need one, is paid separately at the embassy or consulate; as an example, Cape Verde's embassy in the United States charges USD 60 for a single entry and USD 114 for multiple entries.
Required documents
- Valid passport
- EASE pre-registration completed before travel (preferably 5 days in advance), with the TSA paid
- Visa obtained before travelling, for nationals of the countries on the official mandatory-visa list (since 1 January 2026)
Health insurance
Not mandatory for this destination.
When travel insurance is mandatory → Travel insurance policies ↓Transit rules
The official list of visa-exempt countries sets the maximum stay by nationality: 30 days for European Union countries, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, the United States, Canada, Brazil and China, among others; 90 days for several ECOWAS countries, South Korea and Macau; 60 days for Russia and São Tomé and Príncipe; 180 days for Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Ukraine. All of them must still complete EASE pre-registration. According to the Government single portal, visa-exempt travellers who want to stay longer must apply for a visa at the nearest Cape Verdean embassy or consulate. Those who already hold a visa and want to extend their stay apply to the Direção de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (or, where there is none, the National Police) before the visa expires.
More Cape Verde rules
They don't depend on your passport, so they are on the Cape Verde page:
Official portal: https://aai.gov.cv. Destination data verified on 23 August 2026. Sources: gov.cv (Government single portal: list of visa-exempt countries with their maximum stay and how to extend it, list of countries requiring a visa and the pre-registration deadline); ease.gov.cv (official pre-registration portal: prior visa required since 1 January 2026 and its list of 91 countries); portalconsular.mnec.gov.cv (Consular Portal: who must pre-register and pay the TSA, and Decreto-Lei 2/2015); files.zetesft.com/images/desdobraveisPT.pdf (official EASE leaflet linked from passageiro.aac.cv: CVE 3,400 TSA on international flights and exemptions); embcv-usa.gov.cv (PDF from the Cape Verde Embassy in the US: CVE 3,400 TSA and that embassy's visa fees); aai.gov.cv (Alta Autoridade para a Imigração: FAQ on pre-registration and the surcharge, extending a stay, the CVE 10,000 to 50,000 overstay fine, administrative expulsion and grounds for refusal of entry); bcv.cv (Bank of Cape Verde, "Informação aos viajantes": foreign currency and escudo limits) and caboverde-airports.cv (cash limits, green and red customs channels); mf.gov.cv/web/dnre (Directorate-General of Customs: baggage allowance for wine, spirits and tobacco) (checked 29 September 2026).
Travel insurance for Cape Verde
It isn't listed as mandatory for this entry, but without insurance, medical care during the trip can get expensive.
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Things to see and do in Cape Verde
Tours, skip-the-line tickets and day trips, most with free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
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This pair in context
In the other direction, citizens of Cape Verde can enter Guinea visa-free. See the Cape Verde → Guinea page.
All 15 passports from Western Africa that VisaRadar tracks can enter Cape Verde visa-free. Same result as Guinea: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast.
With a passport from Guinea, in the rest of Western Africa you can enter Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo visa-free; you need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival for Mauritania.
A passport from Guinea ranks 156 of 199 in the VisaRadar passport ranking and reaches 52 of 198 destinations without applying for a visa in advance.
Counts from the same requirements matrix behind this page's verdict, using the UN M49 subregions.
Frequently asked questions
Do Guinean citizens need a visa for Cape Verde?
No. You can enter Cape Verde with just your passport.
How long does it take to get the entry permit?
Not applicable: direct entry with your passport.
What minimum passport validity is required?
There is no minimum number of months: the passport just has to be valid.
What currency is used in Cape Verde?
Cape Verdean Escudo (CVE).
What do Guinean passport holders need for the countries near Cape Verde?
With a passport from Guinea, in the rest of Western Africa you can enter Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo visa-free; you need a prior authorisation or a visa on arrival for Mauritania.
Related pages
See Cape Verde requirements for other passports →
Informational only. Always verify requirements with the official embassy or consulate before you travel.