{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-13T03:06:07.339Z","passport":{"code":"DJ","name":"Djibouti","slug":"djibouti"},"destination":{"code":"AO","name":"Angola"},"status":"visa_on_arrival","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-26","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"pass376-angola-art-4-ordinary-passport-tourist-visa-on-arrival-2026","title":"Ordinary passports: Angola pre-authorised tourist visa affixed at frontier","summary":"Decree 189/23 Article 4 establishes a broad tourist-visa route: the traveller applies through SME, receives electronic pre-authorisation and presents it at the frontier, where the visa is physically affixed to the travel document. Under the issuance-point taxonomy this is visa_on_arrival, not evisa. The cohort excludes current unverified document-recognition/operational cases and preserved-treaty conflicts.","status":"visa_on_arrival","effectiveFrom":"2023-09-29","conditions":["Ordinary passport short tourist visits only; not work, study, medical treatment, residence, transit, diplomatic, official/service, emergency or special-document cases.","Apply through the official SME channel before travel, obtain the electronic pre-authorisation, present it at the frontier, and receive the visa affixed in the travel document after confirmation.","Passport validity must exceed six months; round-trip ticket and an international vaccination certificate are required where applicable.","The decision period is no more than three working days. Border admission remains subject to confirmation and other applicable formalities.","An alternative simplified consular tourist-visa procedure exists; it does not change the available online-preauthorisation/frontier-issuance route.","Article 3(3) preserves treaty and agreement commitments. This policy therefore excludes São Tomé and Príncipe and Zambia while their bilateral ordinary-passport baseline remains unresolved."],"sourceIds":["pass376-angola-decree-189-23-art-4-online-border-visa-2026","pass376-angola-government-decree-art-4-current-summary-2026","pass376-angola-sme-selector-taiwan-south-sudan-kosovo-replay-2026"],"application":{"url":"https://www.sme.gov.ao/ao/evisa/","label":"Serviço de Migração e Estrangeiros tourist-visa pre-authorisation","processingTime":"Decree 189/23 Article 4 provides a decision within no more than three working days.","steps":["Submit the tourist-visa request through the official SME channel before travel.","Receive the electronic entry pre-authorisation through that channel.","Present it and the required valid ordinary passport, return ticket and any applicable vaccination certificate at the frontier for confirmation and visa affixation."]}}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"pass376-angola-decree-189-23-art-4-online-border-visa-2026","title":"Presidential Decree 189/23: simplified tourist-visa procedure","url":"https://plataformacipra.gov.ao/public/ficheiros/arquivos/Gov_AngolaDecreto%20Presidencial880210230334451696257285.pdf","publisher":"Government of Angola / CIPRA","jurisdiction":"Angola","kind":"law","language":"Portuguese","reviewedAt":"2026-08-26"},{"id":"pass376-angola-government-decree-art-4-current-summary-2026","title":"Angola exempts citizens of 98 countries from tourist visas","url":"https://governo.gov.ao/noticias/1046/governo/decreto-presidencial/angola-isenta-cidadaos-de-98-paises-de-vistos-de-turismo","publisher":"Official Portal of the Government of Angola","jurisdiction":"Angola","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Portuguese","reviewedAt":"2026-08-26"},{"id":"pass376-angola-sme-selector-taiwan-south-sudan-kosovo-replay-2026","title":"SME eVISA official tourist-visa page","url":"https://www.sme.gov.ao/ao/evisa/","publisher":"Serviço de Migração e Estrangeiros","jurisdiction":"Angola","kind":"official-portal","language":"Portuguese","reviewedAt":"2026-08-26"}]}