Who needs a visa for Uganda?
Sub-Saharan Africa · Kampala
Photo: Jingo Faizal / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Of 198 nationalities, 40 enter Uganda with no paperwork at all. The rest: 158 must be approved before they travel.
- Government fee
- $50
- Stay permitted
- Single entry, up to 3 months; may be extended by a further 60 days
This is the government's own portal. We are not paid to send you there.
Checked 18 October 2026 — read the fees and rules on immigration.go.ug
What Uganda asks for
- Passport bio-data page copy, with at least six months' validity
- Tour plan
- Travel itinerary or booking
- Recent passport-size photograph
- Hotel booking, or the address where you will stay
Worth knowing
- Uganda's visa fees are not refundable, and every payment carries a bank charge.
- Since 2 October 2026 a yellow fever vaccination certificate is no longer required to enter Uganda.
Photo requirements
We have not yet read the photo rules for Uganda on an official page, so we print no sizes. Photo rules we have checked, and official links for the rest
Resize a photo in your browser. It is never uploaded.
How long your passport must be valid for Uganda: see passport validity by country.
What do you need?
Who needs what
No nationality matches that.
Visa free 40
Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.
- Angola 90d
- Antigua and Barbuda 90d
- Bahamas 90d
- Barbados 90d
- Belize 90d
- Botswana 90d
- Burundi 90d
- Comoros 90d
- Cyprus 90d
- DR Congo 90d
- Eritrea 90d
- Eswatini 90d
- Fiji 90d
- Gambia 90d
- Ghana 90d
- Grenada 90d
- Hong Kong 90d
- Ireland 90d
- Jamaica 90d
- Kenya 90d
- Lesotho 90d
- Madagascar 90d
- Malawi 90d
- Malaysia 180d
- Malta 90d
- Mauritius 90d
- Mozambique 90d
- Rwanda 90d
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 90d
- Seychelles 90d
- Sierra Leone 90d
- Singapore 90d
- Solomon Islands 90d
- South Sudan 180d
- Tanzania 90d
- Tonga 90d
- Trinidad and Tobago 90d
- Vanuatu 90d
- Zambia 90d
- Zimbabwe 90d
eVisa (electronic visa) 158
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.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Russia
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
About Uganda
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Capital
- Kampala
- Population
- 51,384,894 2025 · 31st of 197
- Size
- 241,550 km² 79th largest of 199
- Density
- 213 per km²
- Languages
- English, Swahili
- Currency
- Ugandan shilling UGX
- Borders
- DR Congo Kenya Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania
Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.