# Lesotho passport to Costa Rica: Visa required

Current access classification: **Visa required** — Traditional visa required before travel.

Access data checked August 24, 2026. Evidence status: **official evidence collected**.

This page concerns ordinary short visits unless an official source states otherwise. Authorities apply the current rule, and individual circumstances can change the applicable treatment.

## Evidence timeline

- **Current official route — Costa Rica: consular, restricted and residual foreign ordinary passports require advance visa** (Visa required)
  Resolution AJ-484-11-2025 expressly puts named nationalities into consular or restricted groups and puts every country not named in a group into the restricted group. The normalized baseline is advance visa required; this is not eVisa or visa on arrival.
  - Third-group consular visas and fourth-group Commission-authorized restricted visas are single-entry, passport-stamped advance visas; both normally allow up to 30 days subject to the directive.
  - The directive’s special China, Colombia, Nicaragua and Venezuela provisions and all US/Canada/Japan/Schengen/EEA/UK multiple-entry visa or residence-document exceptions are conditional and are not normalized as passport-wide access.
  - Passport validity, funds, onward ticket, no-entry-ban and border admissibility requirements apply. Residence, work, study, transit, crew, diplomatic, official/service and special-document routes are excluded.
  Official sources:
  - [Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica: DGME Resolution AJ-484-11-2025: general entry-visa directives for non-residents](https://pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?nValor1=1&nValor2=105721&nValor3=148472&param1=NRTC&strTipM=TC)
  - [Procuraduría General de la República / Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica: Costa Rica General Migration and Immigration Law No. 8764 (current consolidated text)](https://pgrweb.go.cr/SCIJ/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?nValor1=1&nValor2=66139&nValor3=106652&param1=NRTC&strTipM=TC)

## Useful links

- [HTML evidence page](https://multipassrank.com/lesotho-costa-rica-visa)
- [Lesotho passport access](https://multipassrank.com/passport/lesotho)
- [All passport requirements for Costa Rica](https://multipassrank.com/destination/costa-rica)
- [Dataset license](https://multipassrank.com/data-license)