 Visa for Kenya?
"Liz" <invalid@v-liz.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <31g71gF39t1skU1@>
> "Bobby" <bobby@europe.com> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me the best way to go about getting a visa to visit
>> Africa
>> (Kenya)?
>>
>> I live in the UK.
>
> I always send my passport registered post with a registered post return
> envelope to the Embassy in London. You're advised to allow four weeks, but
> mine have always come back in about a week.
> I'm surprised your tour operator hasn't given you this info already.
>
> It is also possible to get a visa on entry, and some on this group do
> that,
> but the queues are sometimes very long and I'm always too anxious to see
> the
> animals to want to hang around in an airport.
> However, if you've got less than four weeks, this may be your safest bet.
Just passed through there twice this month. The queues for getting a visa at
the airport counter will cost you an extra 5 minutes, max, and the cost is
exactly the same (for US citizens, its $50 for a single-entry visa whether
you get it at the border or in your home country before arrival). The
check-in guy at immigration had absolutely no preference for either type of
visa.
Good news: a single entry visa is still valid if you go into other East
African countries (such as Tanzania). You'll need an entry visa for the
other country, but you won't need a multiple-entry visa to get back into
Kenya. We paid $50 for our Kenyan visas, then paid $50 for an entry visa to
Zanzibar. When we left Zanz, we had to pay $25 for an <exit> visa (what do
they do if you refuse to pay? Extradite you??), so it was nice that we
didn't need another Kenyan visa to return to Nairobi.
--riverman
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