Who needs a visa for Lesotho?

No visa is needed for stays of up to 90 days.

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Brunei
• Dominica
• Gambia
• Grenada
• Guyana
• Hong Kong
• Israel
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mauritius
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Papua New Guinea
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• Tanzania
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Vanuatu
• Zambia

Source: Lesotho e-Visa portal (run for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Immigration)↗, checked 31 Oct 2026Nationals of the following 40 countries and jurisdictions do not require a visa to enter Lesotho for visits up to 90 days:

No visa is needed for stays of up to 44 days.

• Ireland

Source: Embassy of the Kingdom of Lesotho in Ireland↗, checked 31 Oct 2026Irish citizens do not require a Visa to travel to Lesotho for up to a period of 44 days after which a residential permit must be applied for at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Maseru.

No visa is needed for stays of up to 14 days.

• Belgium
• Czechia
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Iceland
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• South Korea
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland

Source: Honorary Consul of Lesotho in Norway↗, checked 31 Oct 2026No visa is required for citizens of the Nordic countries, namely, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden who are visiting Lesotho for a period not exceeding 14 days.

Source: Lesotho e-Visa portal (run for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Immigration)↗, checked 31 Oct 2026Nationals of the following 17 countries and jurisdictions do not require a visa to enter Lesotho for visits up to 14 days:

No visa is needed; the official source does not state how long you may stay.

• Australia
• Austria
• Botswana
• Canada
• Eswatini
• Fiji
• Ghana
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Zimbabwe

Source: Lesotho e-Visa portal (run for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Immigration)↗, checked 31 Oct 2026Nationals of the of the following countries do not require a visa for the duration specified:

Everyone not listed above applies online for an eVisa.

Nationalities not listed above: the official source says so in as many words.

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Belarus
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Congo
• Costa Rica
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Djibouti
• Dominican Republic
• DR Congo
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Georgia
• Greece
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hungary
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Macao
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Korea
• North Macedonia
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Palestine
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Qatar
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Türkiye
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Yemen

Source: Ministry of Home Affairs, Lesotho↗, checked 31 Oct 2026Every citizen of a foreign country who wishes to visit the Kingdom of Lesotho on any visa category must first obtain a visa through the Lesotho e-visa system. Citizens of countries that have visa abolition agreements with Lesotho and citizens of some Commonwealth countries are exempt from this rule.

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