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Entry rule

Visa on arrival, 6 months

The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.

Entry rule for 12 September 2026 Source checked 20 August 2026

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Burundi passport → Rwanda
Entry date: 2026-09-12

Visa on arrival, 6 months
No advance visa, you get one on arrival.
You may stay up to 6 months.

Source: https://www.migration.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf_files/ministerial_order_relating_to_immigration.pdf
Source checked: 2026-08-20
Data snapshot: 2026-09-10

This establishes the recorded entry rule and stay allowance, not admission, work permission, residence rights or a tax position.
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Official wording

is a visa issued to a citizen of … East African Community Partner … States upon arrival and it is valid for … six (6) months renewable.

Aevamo’s reading

Article 3 of Ministerial Order N°06/01 of 29/05/2019, made under Article 8 of Law N°57/2018 on Immigration and Emigration, creates the entry obligation for this regime: 'A foreigner who enters into Rwanda must have a valid travel document recognised in Rwanda and a visa or a resident permit.' It is the gazetted, legally operative regulation that determines visa classes, on-arrival issuance and stay durations. The DGIE visa page is cited alongside it because it supplies the nationality lists that the Order deliberately refers out to visa-waiver arrangements.

Article 10 Class VP-1 of the gazetted Ministerial Order N°06/01/2019 grants a citizen of an East African Community Partner State a visa on arrival valid six (6) months renewable; the DGIE's visa-on-arrival page confirms this pass is issued free of charge. The five issuers on this row are the EAC partner states named in the DGIE's own visa-regime communiqué (Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan).

Source details

Source checked: 20 August 2026
Data snapshot: 10 September 2026
Publisher: Official Gazette no.Special of 30/05/2019
Reference ID: ministerial-order-06-01-2019

How the documents behind this regime are dated

The DGIE visa-on-arrival page carries no publication date; the policy it states is effective 'From 1 Jan 2018' and the page footer reads 'Copyright © 2026 Rwanda Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration'.

What this answer covers Limits & assumptions

Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.

Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.