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Visas for Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast

01 September 1994

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On 21 September the UK introduced visas for nationals of Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. Visitors and students from these countries will now need to obtain a visa before they travel (instead of when they arrive in the UK). The Home Office said that this was to stop "the increasing number of bogus asylum seekers from the two countries". They also said that this move was not "prompted by European Union issues" though it would bring the UK in line with "most other EU member states".

Home Office press release, 19.9.94.

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