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Senegal visa in Madrid
Hi All,

Just thought I would share my experience of getting the visa in Madrid. I applied online, but lost the connection and at first would not accept my payment. That done, the mail arrives but says for collection at Dakar airport! I mail the helpline but no reply. So decide to just head to the Madrid consulate.
Got ushered straight into the visa office. They make you fill out the form again, same questions as online. But this seems to just be kept in her draw, as she gave me one that had already been completed as guidance.
Handed over copy of passport, 1 photo and they looked at my vehicle registration.
All done in about 20 minutes. So if you are heading through Madrid it is certainly an easy consulate to get the visa.

Mike
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Hi guys,

we're currently in Togo, West-Africa and in one month we'll be travelling via Burkina and Mali to Senegal. It's all fine that you can pick up your visa in Rosso and 2 other places, but on the online application form the Kidira border (close to Kayes in Mali) is not indicated.

Does anybody have experience with getting a visa for Senegal in Bamako or so (or in Lomé)? What's the deal with cars older than 7 years? I do not have a Carnet de Passage en Douane. For older cars they used to give the "Passavant" for 3 days (to transit).
Any advise would be VERY welcome
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I cannot comment on visas as we didn't need one in the spring. Get a Lassez-passier at the Senegalese consulate/embassy. You'll need your ECOWAS brown card and vehicle papers. We got our lassez-passier at the Senegalese consulate in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It should be no problem even for an older vehicle. We have an '82 Toyota Land Cruiser and we drove through Senegal in the spring of 2013, spending nearly two weeks driving around Senegal as well as a little in The Gambia. We entered from Guinea and left via Diama.

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Hi All,

Just thought I would share my experience of getting the visa in Madrid. I applied online, but lost the connection and at first would not accept my payment. That done, the mail arrives but says for collection at Dakar airport! I mail the helpline but no reply. So decide to just head to the Madrid consulate.
Got ushered straight into the visa office. They make you fill out the form again, same questions as online. But this seems to just be kept in her draw, as she gave me one that had already been completed as guidance.
Handed over copy of passport, 1 photo and they looked at my vehicle registration.
All done in about 20 minutes. So if you are heading through Madrid it is certainly an easy consulate to get the visa.

Mike
So no problems for non-residents? Have you entered Senegal yet with this visa? Any problems entering?
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Senegal visa in Banjul
Guys,

Just to confirm you can get the Senegal visa in Banjul (even without doing the online pre-registration). We were there 3 weeks ago and there were people there who had not completed the online registration and they received their visas the same as us. Be aware though the process is lengthy, you get there register at the little window (filling out another "local" set of forms) then you wait for your name to be called then you go round the front and enter the building get your photo and finger prints done and then told to come back at 3:30.

All well and good so we left did some maintenance on the Landy and went back on time but still had to wait till 5 to get our visas along with everyone else.

Be prepared for the visas to be issued in African time!

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Same day application and pick up at 3:30pm? That's not African time!
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Just to confirm you can get the Senegal visa in Banjul (even without doing the online pre-registration).
What good is getting the visa in Banjul for overlanders? Unless you fly in you had to pass through Senegal to get to Banjul anyways?
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Cruiser guy,

Yep I agree with you what use is it giving information to other travellers who might be doing something different and searching the web for answers.....

Anyway back on topic..... you can get the new bio-metric visa for Senegal in Banjul, if you want to.
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