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Timor-Leste passport Botswana
Do Timorese citizens need a visa for Botswana?
You need an eVisa.
Botswana
Gaborone · Botswana pula (BWP) · English, Tswana
Photo: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
eVisa (electronic visa). A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.
You apply online before you travel and are approved before you fly. There is no embassy appointment and no interview — you fill in a form on the government's own site, pay the government's fee, and carry the approval with you.
- Status
- eVisa
- Stay permitted
- Set by the officer on entry
- Government fee
- 300 BWP
- Typical decision
- Not published
Apply on the official Botswana government site
This is the government's own portal. We are not paid to send you there, and there is no service in between.
Checked 18 October 2026 — read the fees and rules on evisa.gov.bw
Before you fly
- Changing planes: a passport from Timor-Leste needs a visa even to stay airside in United Kingdom, unless you hold an exempting document. Transit rules legislation.gov.uk · read
What Botswana asks for
- Passport valid for at least six months, with at least three unused pages
- Recent photo in JPG format, no bigger than 30 KB
- Supporting documents in English, certified, uploaded as one PDF of no more than 5 MB
- Tour plan or travel schedule
- Flight bookings and a return ticket
- Confirmation of hotel or lodge bookings
Every published fee
| Type | Government fee |
|---|---|
| tourist single entry | 300 BWP |
| tourist multiple entry | 500 BWP |
| transit | 300 BWP |
| business single entry | 500 BWP |
Checked 18 October 2026 — read this fee table on evisa.gov.bw
Worth knowing
- Botswana's visa fee is not refundable, and paying it does not guarantee approval.
- The portal accepts Visa or MasterCard, and the card must be enabled for online payment.