What visa does a Grenada passport need for Benin?
🇬🇩 → 🇧🇯 E-visa — apply online
This is a real visa, just filed online. You wait for approval, you can be refused, and the fee is usually non-refundable.
Visa rules can change at any time. Confirm with your airline before each flight — the airline is liable if they board a passenger against regulations, so they update fastest. Data verified on 26/07/2026.
The other direction: Benin nationals travelling to Grenada — visa required in advance.
We have no investment migration program on file for this country. Interested in it anyway?
BENIN · 6,4969°N 2,6289°E
◉ Porto-Novo
CapitalPorto-Novo
Population~13,700,000
CurrencyXOF
ContinentAfrica
ISO codeBJ / BEN
Passport rank#67
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Frequently asked questions
Benin adopted a law allowing people of African descent abroad whose ancestors were taken from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade to apply for Beninese nationality. Applicants must establish African ancestry and the absence of Beninese ancestry in recent generations, with a defined review process.
Because every other criterion looks at the applicant — where born, who the parents were, how much money. Benin's looks at an act in the past committed by other people and proposes to reverse its consequence. It is among the very few times a country has used nationality law to repair something old rather than sort people alive today.
Liberia uses a racial criterion, originally to protect people just freed from slavery, and after a hundred and seventy years it functions as exclusion. Benin uses ancestry to open a door to descendants of the very people taken from its own coast. Two countries, the same historical chapter, two legally opposite responses.
No, it does not apply. The article records it because it adds an important criterion to the overall picture of how states decide who is a citizen. And do not let anyone sell the descendants route as an investment product, because that is not its purpose.
Togo has moved in a similar direction, and Ghana has long operated residence and right of abode mechanisms for people of African descent abroad.
Benin is the origin of Vodun, an officially recognised religion there with its own national holiday, very unlike how it is usually depicted in Western popular culture. Vodun travelled with those taken away and became a root of many religious practices in Haiti, Brazil, Cuba and the southern United States.
Cotton — Benin is among Africa's largest producers — plus cashews, pineapple, palm oil, and transit trade with the port of Cotonou serving Niger and part of northern Nigeria. Benin has invested in the Glo-Djigbé industrial zone to move from raw cotton exports to domestic textiles and cashew processing.
Cotton dependence makes it sensitive to world prices and weather; transit trade depends on a neighbour's policy and the Nigerian border has been closed for periods with strong effect; security in northern border areas is affected by Sahel instability; and income per head remains low.
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