{"id":53563,"date":"2026-08-23T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/53563\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:47:21","slug":"%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%86-%d8%a5%d8%b9%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%84%d9%8a-%d8%ac%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b2%d8%a7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/53563\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry announces visa exemption for travel to Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"224\">The Foreign Ministry announces that the Republic of Botswana has informed the Sultanate of Oman that it is not included among the countries whose nationals require a visa to enter the Republic of Botswana, for holders of all Omani passports.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"226\" data-end=\"453\">Accordingly, holders of Omani passports may enter Botswana without a visa for stays of up to 90 days, provided that their passport is valid for at least six months from the date of entry and contains at least three blank pages.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"589\">The Foreign Ministry advises citizens travelling to Botswana to ensure they have health insurance covering the duration of their stay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"658\">The Foreign Ministry wishes everyone a safe and successful journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holders of Omani passports may enter Botswana without a visa for stays of up to 90 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,115],"tags":[808,975],"class_list":["post-53563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-statements","tag-consular-affairs-en","tag-botswana-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53569,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53563\/revisions\/53569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}