Burkina Faso
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e-Visa, 90 days
Before you travel: you need an e-visa.
The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions1 to check
- The visa may be obtained electronically: the e-Visa is a protocol certifying that its holder is authorised to enter and stay for a duration of less than 90 days, and applicants can obtain it electronically by supplying the required information and paying online.
Your stay
Add your arrival date to work out the stay that fits this rule.
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Official wording
Sous réserve des accords d’exemption de … visa, tout étranger qui entre ou séjourne sur le territoire … national est assujetti au visa.
Aevamo’s reading
Loi n°001-2024/ALT of 22 February 2024 fixes the conditions of entry and stay of foreigners and repeals the 1984 ordinance; it is the instrument that creates the visa obligation for foreigners entering Burkina Faso, subject to community rules, international conventions and reciprocity. The e-visa portal describes how that obligation is operated.
This is Décret n°2025-0288/PRES/PM/MSECU/MATM/MEF/MAECRBE/MFPTPS of 13 March 2025, published in the Journal Officiel du Burkina Faso N°17 of 24 April 2025 — the implementing instrument of the controlling law, and the act that states the general rule in operative terms: subject to visa-exemption accords, every foreigner who enters or stays on the national territory is subject to the visa. It is preferred to the Ministry of Security's e-visa portal for this row because the portal is the ministry's description of how the rule is operated, while the decree is the rule. The gazette page is set in two columns and the stored OCR interleaves them, so the passage is quoted as blocks; each block is verbatim and they appear in the document in this order.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
Loi n°001-2024/ALT du 22 février 2024; Décret n°2025-0288 du 13 mars 2025, published in the Journal Officiel du Burkina Faso N°17 of 24 April 2025; AES Heads of State declaration dated 'Fait à Bamako, le 14 décembre 2024' and published by the MAE under 16 December 2024; AES treaty signed at Niamey on 6 July 2024; e-visa portal copyright 2021–2026; Mauritanian MFA visa page captured by the Internet Archive on 9 May 2026; U.S.-visa communiqué dated 'Ouagadougou, le 30 DEC 2025'.
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.