Printed Visa Requirement | Customs and Immigration

March 10th, 2024 by Lookiir

Same as everyone else. I entered Guinea with an e-visa and was told at the border that I had to go to Conakry to get a printed visa on my passport, otherwise I'd have trouble leaving the country. Since I had to go to the capital anyway, I decided to do it just in case because I knew I'd regret not doing it if I encountered issues later on. Although as others said, I don't know if it's truly mandatory or not.

Anyway, I got a bike to drop me off at the airport, got in, asked around, and all the staff members showed me the way. A lady got my picture and fingerprints, another put the visa inside my passport. All of it for free, of course.
Now I can focus on getting a visa for Ivory Coast ^^.

February 12th, 2024 by fulloffeet.wordpress.com

Don't know if it's truly necessary to get the sticker in my passport, but I knew I'd be kicking myself if I was here, didn't do it, and had problems later on. Arrived at 11am on a Monday. The airport officials knew well what I wanted and directed me to the counter, although no one was there. They initially said someone would be back in 3-4 hours, but after an hour someone showed. She gave me a 3-month, multiple entry visa starting from today and took my stamped visa copy from the border. Not sure if I'll need that again but I'll update here if I have any problems at the border with Sierra Leone and then after with Cote d'ivoire (now that I have a multiple entry visa :D). Lots of ATMs all over, though no postcards to be found :(. The official actually doing the visa was professional, though a bit gruff, but the security guys who directed me to the desk tried to shake me down for "coffee money" afterwards, which I just walked away from. A moto-taxi here from the Cote d'ivoire embassy cost me 20k.

December 15th, 2023 by travelove.org

Parking: left entrance: 10.000, right entrance 50.000 per hour!

Ask security guard in the airport to guide you to immigration.
We asked for an extension of our visa and got 3 months from today on, despite already being in the country for more than 2 weeks! Multiple or double entry was not possible.
Very nice officer, no fees.
You must come in person, because they take your fingerprints.

September 20th, 2023 by wildastronomy01

Very quick service, I got a 5 year multiple entry visa.
10,000fg for parking.

August 5th, 2023 by Thibault_D

Same here. Very easy and fast. 10 minutes total and 10.000 GNF for the parking. Conflicting info regarding whether or not this is mandatory (the visa in the passport after having entered with a printed visa) but I wanted to on the safe side so I did it.

April 11th, 2023 by boonsinca

Very easy and fast. We paid 10.000 for parking with a receipt.

February 13th, 2023 by rubenvernieuwe

ample guarded and free parking space.
go to arrivals.
I had to wait 1,5 hours for the immigration team to show up. could depend on arriving planes.

took 5 minutes to put the visa in the passport.

as I understood you need to have the visa in your passport if you stay longer then 5 days in Guinee.

other people were there for the visa as well so they are used to it.

Prefer this option over the ministère as it is not as far in Conakry.

January 4th, 2023 by vlietjcg

We were told that you have to get a printed visa in your passport if you stay in the country for more than 14 days. Everything went very easy. You give them your e-visa and the make a sticker for your passport. The sticker is free, parking at the airport costs 10.000.

December 9th, 2022 by leptitreporter.com

If like us you arrived at a land border with a e-visa, you don’t have an actual visa on your passeport, just the stamp.

We were told at the border Senegal / Guinea that you need to go to Conakry within 5 days for the fingerprints and photos in order to change the visa paper into an actual visa in the passeport. We heard many travelers that didn’t do that and had no problem going to Ivory Coast.

But we were in Conakry and decided to take the time to do it. So we went to the airport, at the arrivals (explained to the few police man at the doors they understood why). And we found the guy who could take our prints and photos, then printed and put the visa in our passeport. It’s fast and free of course. It was as if we arrived with a plane !

For the 5 days, don’t rush, we were there after 10 days and they didn’t notice so take your time in Fouta Djallon. BUT, we still don’t know if it’s mandatory or not, some said yes some said no. It might be changing and all the borders don’t have the information.. well if you go to Conakry for your Ivory visa, then take the time to do it it’s easy :) and check the comments at the Ivory border if someday, someone didn’t do it and had a problem with it.