{"id":206748,"date":"2025-09-10T23:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-qatar-new-visa-rules-restrict-nigerian-men-from-solo-travel\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:11:51","slug":"nigeria-qatar-new-visa-rules-restrict-nigerian-men-from-solo-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-qatar-new-visa-rules-restrict-nigerian-men-from-solo-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Qatar New Visa Rules Restrict Nigerian Men From Solo Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>In addition, visa applicants must provide proof of a confirmed return ticket alongside hotel accommodation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nigerian male travellers will no longer be granted tourist or transit visas to Qatar unless accompanied by their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The Qatari government announced this in a recent notice as part of its new visa regulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">These new restrictions come amid growing concerns by Qatari authorities over compliance with entry and exit regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100398.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition, visa applicants must provide proof of a confirmed return ticket alongside hotel accommodation. Nigerian male travellers will no longer be granted tourist or transit visas to Qatar unless accompanied by their families. The Qatari government announced this in a recent notice as part of its new visa regulation. These new restrictions come amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6801,257,4687,393,482,3981,7549,10967,20212,254,5123,1956],"class_list":["post-206748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-men","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-qatar","tag-restrict","tag-rules","tag-solo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-travel","tag-visa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}