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South Africa to Papua New Guinea

Visa requiredTraditional visa required before travel

This page separates the current comparison status from the official evidence collected for it. Rules shown here concern ordinary short visits unless a source states otherwise.

Official evidence collectedAccess data checked August 24, 2026Sources reviewed August 22, 2026
Evidence timeline

How this access rule is documented

  1. Current official routeVisa required

    Non-VOA ordinary tourist passports: paper advance visitor visa

    The live ICA Visitor Visa page directs a traveller outside the current VOA eligibility list to the paper entry-permit form, and the current FAQ requires that visa to be issued before travel. None of these ordinary-passport codes is in the live VOA list or a directly applicable current Easy Visitor Permit table.

    • This ordinary tourist baseline covers holiday, sightseeing, social or recreational visits, and visits to relatives or friends. It does not establish work, business, study, residence, transit, crew, APEC, diplomatic, official, service, special-passport, travel-document, territorial, group-tour, citizenship, or final-admission treatment.
    • The live VOA schedule's China entry is limited to diplomatic, official and service passports. The 2025 handbook separately limits Chinese ordinary-passport VOA to registered organized tour groups; neither is transferred to the ordinary independent-tourist China row.
    • The current Visitor Visa page offers electronic lodging to passports eligible for VOA and directs non-VOA applicants to its paper form; the current FAQ independently requires a non-eligible traveller to be issued a visa before travel. This is an advance visa, not VOA, ETA, or an eVisa inference from portal existence.
    • ICA's linked 2025 handbook says visitor-class applications must be submitted online, while the newer live Visitor Visa page says non-VOA applicants should use the paper form. The handbook and portal demonstrate an operational-route conflict, but neither supplies a current electronic eligibility route for this residual cohort; the live page controls the conservative paper advance classification.
    • The current eVisa portal's Easy Visitor Permit tables directly name other nationalities and are not treated as an all-nationalities electronic complement. The Digital Arrival Card is also not a visa.
    Official sourcesPapua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority: Papua New Guinea ICA: Visa on ArrivalPapua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority: Papua New Guinea ICA: Visitor VisaPapua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority: Papua New Guinea ICA: General Visa FAQPapua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Services Authority: Papua New Guinea ICA eVisa: Visitor permit classes and eligible-passport tablesPapua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Service Authority: Papua New Guinea ICA: Immigration Entry Permit and Visa Information Booklet 2025
Official application route

How to apply

  1. Use the current ICA Visitor Visa page to download the Application for Entry Permit Form.
  2. Submit the paper visitor application before travel in accordance with ICA's current instructions.
  3. Travel only after ICA has issued the visitor visa.
ICA Visitor Visa paper entry-permit application
Provenance

Official source register

Only destination governments, official immigration services, official diplomatic missions, and primary legal instruments qualify as published evidence.