By Abdi Ali
Published January 16, 2021
Kenya has with effect from January 1, 2021 stopped issuance of visas to travellers at the point of entry.
Consequently, travellers from countries that require visas to enter Kenya are required to apply and obtain them online before boarding their flight as issuance of visas on arrival are no longer be available.
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Kenya has also rolled out an online trustworthy and safe systems for travelers called Trusted Travel (TT) to strengthen its ability to verify, authenticate and validate test results and vaccination certificates for diseases of International public health concern such as COVID-19.
Travellers are advised to visit authorised laboratories to take COVID-19 RT PCR test and be issued with TT codes that can be verified by airlines and Port Health Authorities.
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As Kenya upgrades its travel infrastructure, travellers are advised to arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi at least four hours before their flight departure.
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It isn’t just JKIA’s Terminals 1B and 1C that are being renovated and upgraded over the next 12 months but the the main access roads to Kenya’s main entry point by air are also being worked on.
Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), that manages JKIA, says airlines that have been operating from Terminals 1B and 1C are being temporarily relocated to Terminals 1A and 2.
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