{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"SS","name":"South Sudan","slug":"south-sudan"},"destination":{"code":"BI","name":"Burundi"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"burundi-foreign-eac-ordinary-passport-visa-free-entry","title":"Foreign EAC ordinary passports: Burundi visa-free short-visitor entry","summary":"Current EAC sources identify the seven other Partner States and state that all Partner States implement visa-free entry for Partner-State citizens. This maps the seven foreign EAC passport codes to Burundi visa-free entry. Burundi Tourism separately says all foreigners need a visa except EAC citizens, but its parenthetical list omits Somalia; the current EAC sources control that new Partner-State mapping.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["Applies only to citizens holding ordinary passports of the seven other current EAC Partner States: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.","The EAC free-movement guarantee remains subject to host-State public-policy, public-security, public-health, border-document and individual-admissibility controls; it is not a work, residence, refugee, diplomatic, official, service, crew or special-document classification.","CGM describes a free EAC access visa issued for up to six months and says it does not grant a right to work. This post-entry administrative status does not turn the entry rule into a visa-on-arrival requirement.","Burundi Tourism’s current page calls EAC the exception but names only Kenya, Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Sudan. Somalia is retained under the current EAC Partner-State and all-Partner-State implementation evidence; this source discrepancy should be rechecked."],"sourceIds":["burundi-tourism-foreign-visitor-visa-default","eac-current-partner-states","eac-current-visa-free-entry","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":"eac-current-partner-states","title":"East African Community: current Partner States","url":"https://www.eac.int/eac-partner-states/","publisher":"East African Community","jurisdiction":"EAC / Burundi","kind":"official-dataset","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"eac-current-visa-free-entry","title":"East African Community: current visa-free entry","url":"https://www.eac.int/immigration/migration-management/visa-free-entry","publisher":"East African Community","jurisdiction":"EAC / Burundi","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","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"}]}