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Short-Stay Visa

Burkina FasoShort stays and visits

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

The Police Nationale page describes a visa as an express authorisation granted by a consulate outside Burkina Faso to a foreign person who applies for it, allowing that person to enter Burkina Faso and stay legally for the allotted period. A short-stay visa is obtained on request from the central immigration administration represented by the Migration Division, from land and air border police posts, or from Burkina Faso embassies or diplomatic representations abroad. At land borders, any foreigner who wants to enter may take only a seven-day visa; at Ouagadougou airport, visas of seven or twenty-one days may be issued on request to foreigners arriving by air. Law No. 001-2024/ALT of 22 February 2024 requires every foreigner entering Burkina Faso to present a valid travel document bearing a Burkinabè or community visa where applicable, or a visa agreement, or a residence permit, and leaves the conditions for visa exemptions to regulations. The official sources do not provide a full nationality matrix of who is exempt from the visa requirement.

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  • The official source does not state the complete answer to this question for this route.

What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the visit purposes this route covers.

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  • The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the short-visit purposes covered by this route.

What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

A seven-day short-stay visa is issued at land borders, and seven- or twenty-one-day visas may be issued at Ouagadougou airport. Extensions to three or twelve months are possible. The official source does not state a rolling-period rule or a maximum period after extension.

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  • No rolling-period rule or maximum period after extension is stated.
  • Police Nationale — Visa court séjour, land-border duration and extension
    Au niveau des frontières terrestres, tout étranger qui veut pénétrer sur le territoire burkinabé ne peut prendre qu’un visa de sept (7) jours. Ce visa peut être étendu pour trois (3) ou douze (12) mois.
  • Police Nationale — Visa court séjour, airport duration and extension
    Au niveau de l’aéroport, de Ouagadougou, des visas de sept (7) ou vingt un (21) jours peuvent être émis sur demandes des étrangers qui rentrent au Burkina Faso par voie aérienne. Ces visas émis à partir de l’aéroport peuvent être étendus pour trois (3) ou douze (12) mois à la DCM toujours sur présentation du reçu de paiement et dans un délai de sept (7) jours.

What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel and passport evidence.

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  • The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence requirements.

Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

A short-stay visa is obtained on request from the central immigration administration represented by the Migration Division, land and air border police posts, or Burkina Faso embassies or diplomatic representations abroad. Land-border and airport short-stay visas may be extended to three or twelve months at the DCM on presentation of the payment receipt, with the airport procedure requiring action within seven days.

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  • The source does not state circumstances for changing visa status beyond the described extensions.
  • Police Nationale — Visa court séjour, application locations
    Il est obtenu sur demande à l’administration centrale en charge de l’immigration représentée par la Division de la Migration(DM), des postes de police frontières terrestres et aériennes, des ambassades ou représentations diplomatiques du Burkina Faso à l’étranger.
  • Police Nationale — Visa court séjour, land-border extension
    Au niveau des frontières terrestres, tout étranger qui veut pénétrer sur le territoire burkinabé ne peut prendre qu’un visa de sept (7) jours. Ce visa peut être étendu pour trois (3) ou douze (12) mois.
  • Police Nationale — Visa court séjour, airport extension
    Au niveau de l’aéroport, de Ouagadougou, des visas de sept (7) ou vingt un (21) jours peuvent être émis sur demandes des étrangers qui rentrent au Burkina Faso par voie aérienne. Ces visas émis à partir de l’aéroport peuvent être étendus pour trois (3) ou douze (12) mois à la DCM toujours sur présentation du reçu de paiement et dans un délai de sept (7) jours.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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