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Visa requirements for Botswana citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Botswana.As of 15 June 2024, Botswana citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 91 countries and territories, ranking the Botswana passport 59th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
A citizen of one EU or EFTA country can live and work indefinitely in the other EU and EFTA countries. However, countries can limit the right to vote and work in certain sensitive fields (such as government, police, military) to local citizens only. [377] Immigrants from another EU or EFTA country can be refused welfare benefits. [378]
In 2017, the EU adopted a regulation to establish an Entry/Exit System (EES) to record electronically the entry and exit of third-country nationals to and from the Schengen Area in a central database, replacing the manual stamping of passports. The goals are to increase automation of border control and to identify overstayers.
Many countries have entry restrictions on foreigners that go beyond the common requirement of having either a valid visa or a visa exemption. Such restrictions may be health related or impose additional documentation requirements on certain classes of people for diplomatic or political purposes.
Botswana and Namibia signed an agreement in February 2023 allowing citizens to travel between the two countries using only identity cards, with passports no longer being needed. [5] Botswana has held talks with Zimbabwe to achieve a similar deal, and expects to open talks with Zambia.
Countries of the Schengen area require non-EU passports to be less than 10 years old upon entry. [17] A number of holders of British passports, which until September 2018 could be issued with a validity period of up to 10 years and nine months if the previous passport was not expired, were unable to travel to the EU subsequent to Brexit due to this restriction.
Rescued male migrants are brought to southern Italian ports, 28 June 2015. Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration post 1945, and many European nations today (particularly those of the EU-15) have sizeable immigrant populations, both of European and non-European origin.
The Botswana passport, which features 48 pages, is written in English and French. The firsts page features a map of Botswana superimposed with wildlife. As of 2014 the Botswana passport was the 4th most powerful on the African continent, allowing Botswana citizens travel to at least 70 countries visa free, [ 4 ] 28 with visa on arrival and 121 ...