# Mauritania passport to Tanzania: eVisa

Current access classification: **eVisa** — A visa applied for and issued electronically 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 — Referral ordinary passports: Tanzania advance electronic visa approval** (eVisa)
  Tanzania Immigration's current referral list prohibits this cohort from using visa on arrival without special Commissioner-General permission and requires an online application approved before travel. The online grant notice makes the ordinary baseline evisa.
  - Referral nationals must apply online and wait for approval before starting travel, unless they obtain special approval from the Commissioner General of Immigration. They are advised to apply at least two months before travel and supply local-host/contact and invitation or visa-application-letter information where available.
  - This policy is evisa because the official portal processes the online application and lets approved applicants download the Visa Grant Notice. It does not turn the exceptional Commissioner's permission into a nationality-wide VOA route.
  - The direct referral list takes precedence over the raw VOA schedule's Burkina Faso and Guinea entries. Refugee and stateless applicants also cannot use VOA but are document/status categories, not ordinary-passport nationality policies.
  - Ordinary visitor approval does not authorize work or business and remains subject to entry documents, designated ports, health/yellow-fever requirements, funds/onward evidence, security and immigration-officer discretion.
  Official sources:
  - [Tanzania Immigration Services Department: Tanzania eVisa: referral cases and ordinary visitor visa rules](https://visa.immigration.go.tz/guidelines)
  - [Tanzania Immigration Services Department: Tanzania eVisa: Visa Application Guidelines](https://visa.immigration.go.tz/guidelines)
  - [Tanzania Immigration Services Department: Tanzania Immigration Department: Entry Requirements](https://www.immigration.go.tz/index.php/entry-requirements)

## How to apply

Referral applicants are advised to submit at least two months before travel and must wait for approval before commencing the journey.

1. Submit the referral visa application through the official Tanzania Immigration portal.
2. Provide the passport, supporting documents, local-host details and an invitation or visa-application letter addressed to the Commissioner General where available.
3. Wait for approval, download the Visa Grant Notice from the portal, and present it with entry documents at a designated entry point.

[Tanzania Immigration referral visa application](https://visa.immigration.go.tz/)

## Useful links

- [HTML evidence page](https://multipassrank.com/mauritania-tanzania-evisa)
- [Mauritania passport access](https://multipassrank.com/passport/mauritania)
- [All passport requirements for Tanzania](https://multipassrank.com/destination/tanzania)
- [Dataset license](https://multipassrank.com/data-license)