Botswana

eVisa · Botswana

Eligibility depends on your passport and circumstances. The authorities decide whether documents are issued and entry is granted.

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Apply for your eVisa · Botswana

Answer a few questions, add your documents and follow your file from your account.

Three steps

  1. Tell us about your trip and travellers
  2. Add the documents listed for your profile
  3. Review your file, then track its status

What you get

  • Guided form, saved as you go
  • Document checklist matched to your profile
  • Itemised price shown before any commitment
  • Status tracking in your account
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Independent private service. The authority alone decides on issuance and entry. No real payment is taken at this stage.

Electronic visa

An eVisa is a visa requested through an online process where the destination offers one. Its purpose, validity and conditions depend on the issuing authority.

Original product name (French source)
Tourism Visa — Botswana
Destination
Botswana

Sources and review status

Review date recorded; current rules still need confirmation.

Dates describe an editorial record, not a live check or legal validity. Review is due after 90 days; rules can change sooner. Open the linked source before relying on this guide.

Recorded review date
  • Gouvernement du Botswana — Tourism Visa

    Recorded review date:

    Review date recorded; current rules still need confirmation.

    Check the source's passport, residence, travel purpose and territorial scope; this link alone does not establish that it covers your case.

Still to establish

  • No passport list is encoded for comparison. Check your passport with the authority; omission does not mean exclusion or exemption.
  • No stay limit is encoded for comparison. Confirm the permitted stay, how days are counted and any cumulative limits.

Travel purposes recorded in this source

The listed purposes do not establish permission to work or undertake other activities.

  • Tourism

Prepare and verify

  1. Use the official portal to check passport requirements and the documents requested for your purpose of travel.
  2. Check processing instructions and the issued document before departure, including how to present it and whether its passport details match.

Your next checks

  1. Write down the passport you will use and its type, your country of residence and your planned activities. Residence and interface language do not replace passport nationality.
  2. List arrival and departure dates, transit stops and entry points. Check each leg separately, including whether you pass immigration during transit.
  3. Open the official instructions for that profile. Record the required documents, submission window, fees and processing guidance; mark anything the source does not confirm as unresolved.
  4. If a condition is unclear, contact the competent authority with your passport country, residence, purpose and dates. Recheck before departure and after a passport or itinerary change.
What else should I know?

Applying online does not guarantee approval. A visa's validity period and the permitted length of each stay can differ; verify both.

Who can apply

Eligibility depends on your passport and circumstances. The authorities decide whether documents are issued and entry is granted.

The source guide below is currently available in French.

Tourism Visa — Botswana

Visa pour un voyage de loisirs, avec demande possible sur le portail eVisa.

Ressortissants des pays dont les citoyens doivent obtenir un visa pour visiter le Botswana.

  1. Préparer copie certifiée du passeport, photos, lettre motivée et itinéraire.
  2. Ajouter vols, hébergement et droit de retour dans le pays de résidence si nécessaire ; regrouper les pièces en un PDF pour le dépôt en ligne.
  3. Suivre la décision dans le portail et emporter la lettre d’approbation si le visa doit être imprimé à l’arrivée.
  • Une demande peut aussi être déposée auprès des bureaux d’immigration ou représentations à l’étranger.
  • Voyager avec une lettre d’approbation n’équivaut pas à une dispense de demande préalable.
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Official sources

Advice from a foreign government may be intended for its own nationals. Check the destination authority's requirements for your passport and circumstances; an advisory is not a universal eligibility decision.