Botswana: Visa system goes digital
Travellers to Botswana will soon be able to complete visa applications online.
Israel’s Pangea has been selected by the government of Botswana to integrate its eVisa solution as part of the southern African country’s efforts to expand its digital and online services.
This will enable visitors to Botswana to obtain a visa online and will provide seamless entry at land and air arrival points in the country. Pangea is also modernising Botswana’s computerised immigration and citizenship system.
The new process is expected to minimise the government’s investment of money, time, paperwork and manpower allocated for visa applications, and to better serve its visitors.
It is believed that eVisa transfers the entire management of the visa application process to the digital space. The traveller enters the country’s eVisa portal, submits the application and the supporting documents, pays online and communicates with the authorities over the internet.
