Botswana 
Panama
Botswana passport holders do not need a visa to visit Panama for stays of up to 90 days.
Source: Servicio Nacional de Migración — Clasificación de visas en la República de Panamá: ¿Necesita visa para entrar a Panamá? (per-nationality list, ordinary passports; uploaded 2 October 2026) · checked 7 Oct 2026
Botswana citizens can enter Panama without a visa and stay for up to 90 days. You only need a valid Botswana passport at the border; immigration officers may still ask for a return or onward ticket, proof of accommodation and enough money for your stay. The 90-day limit usually counts calendar days from your arrival, so book your return flight inside that window.
Whatever your visa status, Panama applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
Panama lets 115 passports in without a visa and requires an embassy visa from 83. Botswana citizens are treated the same way as Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia and Seychelles. Overall the Botswana passport ranks #106 in the world with 48 visa-free destinations.
Planning a longer trip in Americas? With a Botswana passport you can also visit 15 countries in the region without a visa, including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Brazil, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic and Ecuador.
In the other direction, Panama citizens need evisa to visit Botswana.
Entry requirements for PanamaPanama's National Immigration Service lists a passport or travel document with a minimum of 3 months' validity among its entry requirements. The UK Foreign Office says a British visitor's passport must have an expiry date at least 6 months after the day they plan to leave Panama, and at least one blank page.
Servicio Nacional de Migración de Panamá — Preguntas frecuentes: requisitos para ingresar al país✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
WHO lists Panama as requiring proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers aged 1 year or over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission. WHO also recommends vaccination for all travellers aged 9 months or over going to mainland areas east of the area surrounding the Canal: the comarcas of Emberá and Kuna Yala, the province of Darién, and the areas of the provinces of Colón and Panama east of the Canal.
World Health Organization — Vaccination requirements and WHO recommendations (International travel and health, 2022 country list): Panama✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
Travel insurance is not among the requirements that foreigners must meet to enter Panama under Article 43 of Decreto Ley 3 of 2008 ("los extranjeros deben cumplir los siguientes requisitos"), as the National Immigration Service lists them.
Servicio Nacional de Migración — Turistas (entry requirements, Decreto Ley 3 de 2008, art. 43)✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
Panama's National Immigration Service lists a confirmed reservation to leave the country within the established period among its entry requirements, and Article 43 of Decreto Ley 3 of 2008 requires a return ticket to the country of origin or residence when the migration category requires it.
Servicio Nacional de Migración de Panamá — Preguntas frecuentes: requisitos para ingresar al país✓ Checked 3 Oct 2026
Panama's National Immigration Service says visitors must show proof of economic solvency consistent with the terms they declare for their stay and in no case less than B/.500.00; a child under 18 does not need to show it.
Servicio Nacional de Migración de Panamá — Preguntas frecuentes: requisitos para ingresar al país✓ Checked 9 Oct 2026
Panama's National Immigration Service lists among the entry requirements for foreigners (Decreto Ley 3 of 2008, art. 43) presenting the entry and exit card (Tarjeta de Ingreso y Egreso) supplied by the international transport company, duly completed.
Servicio Nacional de Migración — Turistas (entry requirements, Decreto Ley 3 de 2008, art. 43)✓ Checked 9 Oct 2026
A non-resident must leave the country when the authorized period expires. An irregular migrant who asks for voluntary return pays a fine of 50 balboas for each month or part of a month spent in that condition, receives an entry ban of no less than 2 and no more than 5 years, and must leave within 7 calendar days, except in duly proven cases of force majeure. The National Migration Service deports, and bans from entry, foreigners who stay in the country undocumented or irregularly.
Gaceta Oficial de Panamá No. 25986 — Decreto Ley 3 de 22 de febrero de 2008 (Servicio Nacional de Migración)✓ Checked 12 Oct 2026
Panama's traveller declaration (run by the National Customs Authority) asks whether you are carrying cash or monetary instruments, securities, objects, precious metals or a combination of these worth US$10,000.00 or more, or the equivalent.
Autoridad Nacional de Aduanas — Declaración Jurada de Viajero application, Declaración de bienes y valores step✓ Checked 7 Oct 2026
Data: TravelRequirements.info — Entry Requirements Dataset, AXG Sp. z o.o. (CC BY 4.0). Entry rules can change — confirm with official sources before travel.
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