{"question":{"passport":"MLI","destination":"BFA","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"conditional","headline":"Visa-free","requirement":{"kind":"none","message":"You can travel without arranging a visa."},"stay":{"kind":"NO_LIMIT","phrasing":"Free movement. No limit under this regime."},"conditions":[{"kind":"AGREEMENT_IN_FORCE","text":"The exemption turns on the issuer being a national of a member country of a community space of which Burkina Faso is a party. The AES was created by the treaty signed at Niamey on 6 July 2024 by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, whose Article 5 commits the confederated states to promote the integration of peoples by facilitating the free movement of persons, goods and services and the right of residence and establishment in the confederal space."},{"kind":"ENTRY_REQUIREMENT","text":"The control consists of verifying possession of a valid national, consular or community identity document, so the holder must carry one of those documents and it must be valid."}],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"jo-decret-2025-0288","url":"https://jobf.gov.bf/storage/newspapers/H0scP1JCXd7Zp5vJoPSiF1qd4pAuhvMBmnQ91YwH.pdf","passage":"Pour les ressortissants des pays membres d’un espace … communautaire dont le Burkina Faso est partie, le contrôle consiste à s’assurer de la possession … d’un document d’identité national, consulaire ou … communautaire valide.","explanation":"Article 65 of Décret n°2025-0288 provides that for nationals of member countries of a community space of which Burkina Faso is a party, border control consists only of verifying possession of a valid national, consular or community identity document — not a visa. That is the general visa requirement of Article 4 not biting for this class. Burkina Faso is a founding party to the AES confederation, whose treaty establishes a confederal space and whose free movement is underwritten by the AES declaration of 14 December 2024 declaring the AES 'un espace sans visa'; Mali and Niger are the other two confederated states. The row carries no day count because the decree states none for this class: it replaces the visa check with an identity-document check, which is why limitKind is NO_LIMIT rather than a number read off the visa categories in Article 16.","publisher":"JOURNAL OFFICIEL DU BURKINA FASO N° 17 24 avril 2025"},"checkedAt":"2026-08-29","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[],"scope":{"covers":["recorded entry requirement","recorded stay allowance"],"notEstablished":["personal admission decision","work permission","residence rights","tax position","individual eligibility for every condition"],"passportType":"ordinary"}}