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FCDO travel advice for Botswana. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 18 March 2026

• Warnings and insurance

  Before you travel No travel can be guaranteed safe. Read all the advice in…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  Terrorism There is a high threat of terrorist attack globally affecting UK…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

Updates, news and events from the UK government in Botswana

• Updated: 15 August 2017

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

• Updated: 23 January 2025

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients from Botswana for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 26 August 2021

• Updated: 1 January 2009

• Updated: 1 January 2014

Includes how to access healthcare, get a document legalised, lists of lawyers and how to vote abroad.

• Updated: 29 June 2017

Find out about the UK government's diplomatic, security and development work in Botswana.

• Updated: 12 February 2025

Services if you're visiting, studying, working or living in Botswana. Includes information about trading with and doing business in the UK and Botswana.

• Updated: 13 February 2018

This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Botswana, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.

• Updated: 2 April 2026