Kenya Visa Free for everyone now :wow:

[Ohene]

Does Kenya got big booty women?

it does

 

[papa pimp]

if the 50 dollar visa was stopping you as a westerner you was never going in the first place

 

[shopthatwrecks]

"every corner of the globe"

 

[Chrishaune]

"every corner of the globe"

What is this gif supposed to mean?

 

[get these nets]

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/kenya-visa-free-travel-2024/index.html

Good story. Reduce barriers to cultural, social, and commercial exchange.

 

[010101]

choo choo*

 

[Brosef]

Been to Nairobi a couple times, the VISA application was a bit annoying. This is good news
Hope to hit a safari again

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Will look into this.

 

[MikelArteta]

if the 50 dollar visa was stopping you as a westerner you was never going in the first place

Meh makes it easier. I hate applying for visas

 

[CopiousX]

if the 50 dollar visa was stopping you as a westerner you was never going in the first place

i think they will still keep the fee, but ditch the screening and paperwork. I dont think Kenyans can afford to give up the valuable tourist forex . While i was in kenya, it was explained to me that they only wanted crisp US or Euro bills for the visa fee, and would reject crumbled money , cause this was money the govt needed desperately to meet its own forex obligations .


due to the chinese loans requiring them to pay interest in dollars or yuan, all of east africa is facing a forex shortage that only a few months ago threatened to stop them from importing oil which is traded in dollars. Kenya nearly entered a Sri Lanka scenario. Of the nations in east africa, tanzania with a significantly smaller economy than kenya had to loan its forex to kenta because their economy sells significant minerals (also traded in dollars) which left them as one of the few forex surplus nations in the region.


its so bad that kenya actually proposed a new tax on incoming tourists who carried items valued at more than $200 dollars. the tax was upwards of 25% . This is atrocious to a foreigner cause our phones, laptops, tablets, cameras , jew;ery, etc can easily cost upwards of a thousand dollars each. so imagine every member of your tour group paying an additional $250 in taxes on your $1000 iphone. Its so bad that tour operators are routing tourists away from Kenya‘s airports and making them enter the country by ground or rail in TZ or Uganda. Others are looking at competitors like South Africa.


keep in mind countries normally charge these type of fees, but the thresholds are at 10,000USD and aimed at ballers carrying gold bars and Patek-Philip watches, not at a $200 mark. At such low thresholds , kenya is simply unaffordable for large tour groups or families who have mulpile items each valued more that $200.00. So if kenya is implementing such harsh tax structures in order to create forex streams, then i highly doubt they will eliminate the entry fees from the old visa system.

 

[MikelArteta]

i think they will still keep the fee, but ditch the screening and paperwork. I dont think Kenyans can afford to give up the valuable tourist forex . While i was in kenya, it was explained to me that they only wanted crisp US or Euro bills for the visa fee, and would reject crumbled money , cause this was money the govt needed desperately to meet its own forex obligations .


due to the chinese loans requiring them to pay interest in dollars or yuan, all of east africa is facing a forex shortage that only a few months ago threatened to stop them from importing oil which is traded in dollars. Kenya nearly entered a Sri Lanka scenario. Of the nations in east africa, tanzania with a significantly smaller economy than kenya had to loan its forex to kenta because their economy sells significant minerals (also traded in dollars) which left them as one of the few forex surplus nations in the region.


its so bad that kenya actually proposed a new tax on incoming tourists who carried items valued at more than $200 dollars. the tax was upwards of 25% . This is atrocious to a foreigner cause our phones, laptops, tablets, cameras , jew;ery, etc can easily cost upwards of a thousand dollars each. so imagine every member of your tour group paying an additional $250 in taxes on your $1000 iphone. Its so bad that tour operators are routing tourists away from Kenya‘s airports and making them enter the country by ground or rail in TZ or Uganda. Others are looking at competitors like South Africa.


keep in mind countries normally charge these type of fees, but the thresholds are at 10,000USD and aimed at ballers carrying gold bars and Patek-Philip watches, not at a $200 mark. At such low thresholds , kenya is simply unaffordable for large tour groups or families who have mulpile items each valued more that $200.00. So if kenya is implementing such harsh tax structures in order to create forex streams, then i highly doubt they will eliminate the entry fees from the old visa system.

If they kept the fee it would be visa on arrival. I know for Egypt when you land you pay 25 USD for th visa

 

[papa pimp]

Meh makes it easier. I hate applying for visas

takes 10 minutes
a game changer for africans but definitely not westerners

 

[papa pimp]

i think they will still keep the fee, but ditch the screening and paperwork. I dont think Kenyans can afford to give up the valuable tourist forex . While i was in kenya, it was explained to me that they only wanted crisp US or Euro bills for the visa fee, and would reject crumbled money , cause this was money the govt needed desperately to meet its own forex obligations .


due to the chinese loans requiring them to pay interest in dollars or yuan, all of east africa is facing a forex shortage that only a few months ago threatened to stop them from importing oil which is traded in dollars. Kenya nearly entered a Sri Lanka scenario. Of the nations in east africa, tanzania with a significantly smaller economy than kenya had to loan its forex to kenta because their economy sells significant minerals (also traded in dollars) which left them as one of the few forex surplus nations in the region.


its so bad that kenya actually proposed a new tax on incoming tourists who carried items valued at more than $200 dollars. the tax was upwards of 25% . This is atrocious to a foreigner cause our phones, laptops, tablets, cameras , jew;ery, etc can easily cost upwards of a thousand dollars each. so imagine every member of your tour group paying an additional $250 in taxes on your $1000 iphone. Its so bad that tour operators are routing tourists away from Kenya‘s airports and making them enter the country by ground or rail in TZ or Uganda. Others are looking at competitors like South Africa.


keep in mind countries normally charge these type of fees, but the thresholds are at 10,000USD and aimed at ballers carrying gold bars and Patek-Philip watches, not at a $200 mark. At such low thresholds , kenya is simply unaffordable for large tour groups or families who have mulpile items each valued more that $200.00. So if kenya is implementing such harsh tax structures in order to create forex streams, then i highly doubt they will eliminate the entry fees from the old visa system.

I personally think Ruto is all talk too.

On this pretty big Kenyan IG i follow all the Kenyans were mocking him about this basically to say "Ruto doesn't do anything he promises" plus he has basically enacted austerity so they definitely need the money.

As for the proposed tax, last time I went to Nairobi dawg I had to unload my suitcase at customs and they made me prove my apple products weren't new or they were going to make me pay. It was so ridiculous.

 

[MikelArteta]

takes 10 minutes
a game changer for africans but definitely not westerners

Nah you have to have a updated passport photo, proof of accomodation etc, proof of yellow fever vaccination

I'm in Uganda right now literally did the east Africa visa

 

[papa pimp]

Nah you have to have a updated passport photo, proof of accomodation etc, proof of yellow fever vaccination

I'm in Uganda right now literally did the east Africa visa

like i said takes 10 minutes and you dont have to upload yellow fever but they might check at the airports
ive done EAC visa too many times to name lol