{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"NZ","name":"New Zealand","slug":"new-zealand"},"destination":{"code":"BI","name":"Burundi"},"status":"visa_on_arrival","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"burundi-other-foreign-ordinary-passports-simple-entry-visa-at-airport","title":"Other foreign ordinary passports: Burundi simple entry visa at Melchior Ndadaye International Airport","summary":"Burundi Tourism’s current visitor guidance expressly requires a visa for every foreigner other than EAC citizens. The directly competent CGM says its simple entry visa for a foreign citizen is obtained online, at Melchior Ndadaye International Airport or at embassies. Because the same nationality-wide route is available at the airport, it is normalized as visa_on_arrival; the online application is an alternative channel, not a mandatory eVisa.","status":"visa_on_arrival","conditions":["The simple entry visa allows a foreign citizen one entry and a one-month stay. Its airport route is expressly limited to Melchior Ndadaye International Airport; it does not establish visa issuance at every land or other air border.","The CGM portal also offers online application and embassy processing. Those alternative channels do not replace the explicitly available airport-issued route in the easiest-access taxonomy, and the portal’s online certificate/application process is not normalized as an eVisa.","The CGM airport form requests identity, ordinary travel-document, arrival, accommodation, contact and supporting information. Visa issuance and admission remain subject to purpose, documentation, health, security and border discretion.","The policy excludes Burundi citizenship, the seven foreign EAC citizen exemptions, work, study, establishment, permanent residence, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee and special-document routes. CGM separately displays free CEPGL and EAC entry-visa administrative categories; the latter does not change the EAC exemption, while no current membership-and-entry instrument is used to give Congo a different nationality status from its otherwise supported airport route.","Burundi Tourism lists a 70 USD per-month entry-visa charge, while CGM presents different fees for other entry categories and does not display an airport-form price. No fee is normalized; the direct airport issuance channel, not a price, is the basis for visa_on_arrival."],"sourceIds":["burundi-tourism-foreign-visitor-visa-default","burundi-cgm-simple-entry-visa-airport-route","burundi-cgm-visa-service-and-statuses"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"burundi-tourism-foreign-visitor-visa-default","title":"Burundi Tourism: foreign visitor visa default","url":"https://tourisme.gov.bi/visa/","publisher":"Burundi Tourism Authority","jurisdiction":"Burundi","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"burundi-cgm-simple-entry-visa-airport-route","title":"Commissariat Général des Migrations: simple entry visa and airport route","url":"https://migration.gov.bi/Apply/step1/8","publisher":"Commissariat Général des Migrations, National Police of Burundi","jurisdiction":"Burundi","kind":"official-portal","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"burundi-cgm-visa-service-and-statuses","title":"Commissariat Général des Migrations: visa services and types","url":"https://migration.gov.bi/Services","publisher":"Commissariat Général des Migrations, National Police of Burundi","jurisdiction":"Burundi","kind":"official-portal","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}