Nigeria Visa Cost Calculator

Most leisure travellers need only Nigeria's single-entry tourist visa — the $110 baseline everything else is measured against. Travellers who expect to cross a border and return — regional side trips, contiguous-country loops — take the multi-entry visa at 1.5× base, $165 for Nigeria. Work-adjacent travel — meetings, contract negotiation, site visits — falls under the business visa, priced at $275 for Nigeria and documented with a host letter.

Transit visas are the bargain tier: $33 covers a layover in Nigeria of 24–72 hours depending on the rules attached to your nationality. Most eligible passports clear Nigeria on a visa-free or online authorisation paid by card at application — the calculator's total is unchanged, and there is no border cash step to plan for.

The document set for Nigeria is short but strict — valid passport, photo, where you are staying, and proof of funds for the stay. Where you submit depends on the route: eVisa/ETA applicants for Nigeria upload documents to the official portal, while visa-free travellers simply carry passport and accommodation proof to immigration. Budget the fee in USD as this calculator does, then expect the actual charge in NGN at the day's rate — a swing of a few dollars either way.

Some Nigeria missions add a biometric appointment; if yours does, book it the day you file, because appointment queues usually outlast processing queues. Late bookers pay the express premium — half as much again on the fee to compress Nigeria's decision from weeks to days.

Check the passport before anything else: under six months' validity or a full page count and Nigeria returns the application unprocessed. Photos fail applications quietly: print two spares, keep the digital originals, and use a likeness from the last six months for Nigeria's file. Show roughly $50–100 USD per day of stay in bank statements — for a 10-day Nigeria trip that means $500–1,000 visible and recent.

A booked (not necessarily paid) return ticket and accommodation covering every night in Nigeria complete the core file. Business applicants add the Nigeria host company's invitation; transit applicants add the confirmed onward ticket — those two categories fail on missing paperwork more than fee errors.

The standard Nigeria decision typically lands within 5–15 business days, and seasonal backlogs push it to the top of that band. Express handling compresses the wait to 1–3 business days and multiplies the fee by 1.5 — $165 instead of $110 for a tourist visa to Nigeria. Most Nigeria refusals trace to fixable defects: an expiring passport, thin bank statements, or accommodation that stops a night short of the return flight.

Reapplication after a Nigeria refusal is routine once the stated reason is addressed; decision letters name the defect explicitly. Track Nigeria's eVisa status page rather than your inbox; approval notices land in the portal first and the email second.