{"question":{"passport":"SYR","destination":"BWA","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"conditional","headline":"e-Visa, stay set by the visa","requirement":{"kind":"evisa","message":"Before you travel: you need an e-visa."},"stay":{"kind":"SET_BY_VISA","phrasing":"How long you may stay is set by your visa."},"conditions":[{"kind":"DOCUMENT_CLASS","text":"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."}],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"immigration-visa-regs-2014","url":"https://botswanalaws.com/StatutesActpdf/2014subsidiarypdf/IMMIGRATION%20(VISA)%20REGULATIONS,%20S.%20I.%20NO.%2025%20OF%202014.pdf","passage":"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.","explanation":"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.","publisher":"Statutory Instrument No. 25 of 2014 … IMMIGRATION (VISA) REGULATIONS, 2014 … MADE this 26th day of March, 20I4 … HON. EDWIN J. BATSHU,"},"checkedAt":"2026-08-20","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"}}