Botswana
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e-Visa, stay set by the visa
Before you travel: you need an e-visa.
How long you may stay is set by your visa.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions1 to check
- Regulation 6(3) provides that a person who holds a travel document other than a full national passport shall not be exempted from obtaining a visa.
Source & evidence Read the original words
Official wording
3. Subject to regulation 6, no document shall be a travel document for … the purposes of the Act unless it contains, or has annexed to it, a valid and … current visa issued in accordance with these Regulations. … 5. No visa shall be required by a national of a country listed in Schedule 1 … who is the holder of a valid passport issued in that country unless the Minister, … by notice published in the Gazette, declares that such person is required to … obtain a visa.
Aevamo’s reading
The Immigration (Visa) Regulations, 2014 (S.I. No. 54 of 2014, made under section 60 of the Immigration Act) impose the visa requirement on non-citizens and create the Schedule 1 nationality exemption; it is the instrument that creates the obligation, not a description of it.
Regulation 3 states the default: no travel document is valid for entering Botswana unless it carries a visa issued under the Regulations; regulation 5 creates the only nationality-based exemption, for Schedule 1 countries. The issuers in this row are not on Schedule 1 as amended (Cameroon was deleted by S.I. 132 of 2014), so the default visa requirement applies. The same regulations are in force as re-enacted by S.I. No. 54 of 2014.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
S.I. No. 54 of 2014 made 6 May 2014, published in the Blue Book; S.I. No. 132 of 2014 published 14 November 2014; S.I. No. 57 of 2016 published 27 May 2016; Immigration Act assented 24 January 2011.
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.