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Burundi visa requirements

Current entry categories for 199 passport nationalities, paired with official evidence as it is reviewed.

Access data checked August 24, 20265 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free7Visa on arrival191
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

7

Visa on arrival

191
Policy history

Official evidence timeline

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  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Foreign EAC ordinary passports: Burundi visa-free short-visitor entry

    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.

    • 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.
    7 passport nationalities covered

    Congo (Dem. Rep.), Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

    Official sourcesBurundi Tourism Authority: Burundi Tourism: foreign visitor visa defaultEast African Community: East African Community: current Partner StatesEast African Community: East African Community: current visa-free entryCommissariat Général des Migrations, National Police of Burundi: Commissariat Général des Migrations: visa services and types
  2. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Other foreign ordinary passports: Burundi simple entry visa at Melchior Ndadaye International Airport

    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.

    • 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.
    191 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Greece, Malta, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Hungary, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, United States, Croatia, Iceland, Monaco, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Chile, Hong Kong (SAR China), Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, San Marino, Brunei, Israel, Barbados, The Bahamas, St. Kitts and Nevis, Uruguay, Mexico, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Grenada, Panama, Paraguay, St. Lucia, Macao (SAR China), Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Ukraine, Peru, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Serbia, Guatemala, Solomon Islands, Colombia, El Salvador, Tonga, Honduras, Samoa, Montenegro, Marshall Islands, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Tuvalu, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kiribati, Micronesia, Palau Islands, Moldova, Russian Federation, Venezuela, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, South Africa, Kuwait, Timor-Leste, Ecuador, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Fiji, Bahrain, Vanuatu, Guyana, Kosovo, Nauru, China, Jamaica, Oman, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, Belarus, Bolivia, Thailand, Suriname, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Namibia, eSwatini, Indonesia, Morocco, Dominican Republic, Azerbaijan, Malawi, Ghana, The Gambia, Tunisia, Philippines, Zambia, Armenia, Cape Verde Islands, Mongolia, Benin, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Cuba, Madagascar, Gabon, India, Mauritania, Niger, Guinea, Tajikistan, Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Comoro Islands, Angola, Chad, Liberia, Vietnam, Congo (Rep.), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Jordan, Cambodia, Egypt, Bhutan, Haiti, Laos, Nigeria, Djibouti, Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Libya, Eritrea, Iran, Palestinian Territory, Bangladesh, North Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesBurundi Tourism Authority: Burundi Tourism: foreign visitor visa defaultCommissariat Général des Migrations, National Police of Burundi: Commissariat Général des Migrations: simple entry visa and airport routeCommissariat Général des Migrations, National Police of Burundi: Commissariat Général des Migrations: visa services and types