Foreign travelers leaving for Cameroon will no longer need to go to the country’s consular services for their visa applications. All related procedures will now be carried out online. The announcement of this reform was made Tuesday in Yaoundé by the Minister of External Relations Lejeune Mbella Mbella. Cameroon is thus entering the era of the e-visa or electronic visa. An approach that aims to simplify visa application procedures and make the country more attractive to travelers.
With our correspondent in Yaoundé, Polycarp Essomba
It is an evolution that is announced as a small revolution. Now with the e visa, the processing of entry visa applications for Cameroon will be done in 72 hours for ordinary visas and for those called express in just 24 hours. it will suffice for this for the applicants to be pre-enrolled online, from a telephone or a computer, and a few clicks later, from any corner of the world, to obtain the right to entry into Cameroon.
“ The e-visa project aims to facilitate and simplify the procedures for users in our consular services, seen from the angle that allows them to quickly obtain visas by completing the files that will be submitted to them online. “explains Lejeune Mbella Mbella, Minister of External Relations.
The project was presented to an audience of personalities including ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Yaoundé. Eric Jacquemin; Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Cameroon, hailed his advent. “ The fact of offering this type of service cannot speed up and facilitate the obtaining of a visa. So I think it’s a revolutionary and very positive project. On the one hand, I congratulate them and on the other hand, I wish them a lot of success “.
This achievement is the result of a partnership between the government and a private provider. Its entry into force is planned for April 30, 2023.