60 Countries You Can Visit With JUST Your Nigerian Passport
How does the idea of being able to visit over 60 visa-free countries with your Nigerian passport sound?
A lot of people are not making world trips because they simply do not know how - and to be honest, nobody ever figures out this traveling thing until they really need to travel.
However, a little-known trick is that you can easily become a well-traveled person by visiting these easy-to-enter countries, an advantage you can leverage upon to visit other countries in Europe later on!
For Nigerians: The Step-by-Step Guide to Traveling The World
Visa-free countries are the answer. There is a difference between visa-free countries and visa-on-arrival countries, but you should note that your aim is to travel to visa-free countries.
VisaMapper is a great resource that lists the countries you are free to enter without a visa at any given time. Just grab your passport and you're good to go!
The data on VisaMapper changes dynamically with visa regulations from different countries.
The Cheat-Sheet: How to Break from Visa-Free Countries to a First World Tour
So, here's how to go: first, make your first-world visa applications before you set out to spend the first few months of your travelling career visiting the visa-free countries and getting those lovely stamps on your passport.
(The reason why we encourage you to apply first before travelling is most countries prefer that you apply for a visa from your home country. Also, visas are mostly required to be done a maximum of three months before you finally set out.)
Note: There are some embassies abroad that allow you apply for a visa. In this case, you have to plan your route so that you are in these areas when applying. However, we would not encourage this.
What You need for a Successful Visa Application:
- Complete and genuine documents
- Money
- Concrete proof that you won't be overstaying
- Strong reason for visiting the intended country
Related - and Highly Important Read: Top Visa Interview Questions And How to Ace Them
Don't forget to make flight plans. Oh, and you do need a bed.
Ordinarily, you can easily pick a place for the night from a list of hotels in Nigeria and for other countries in Africa, but when you go on to uncharted territories, you need to ensure you are covered. You need to provide immigration and the embassies with this information. You need to supply the information of the place you be staying, people who will act as your contact persons in these places, and so on.
This is a pretty tricky area, so if you need more information on convincing them at the embassy, read this post about passing the American visa interview. After all, if you can pass the American interview, you can pass any interview, right?
Maybe...
NB: If you are working offline in a foreign country, you'll need a work visa or permit for this. If you, like me, are working digitally, then congratulations! You area digital nomad and your tourist visa as-is covers you! This arrangement is because a lot of countries haven't yet modified their visa rules to cover the digital workspace.
With that said, it is crucial to note that you might want to say you are a 'freelancer' instead of a 'digital nomad' at the embassy as that particular phrase hasn't exactly caught on yet.
