A fresh visa system just pulled in N$413 million for Namibia in under a year after nearly 290,000 travelers grabbed entry permits since the March 2025 launch.
Visa-on-arrival financial windfall
Visa-on-arrival financial windfall
- The visa-on-arrival program raked in N$413 million by late January.
- Launch date was 3 March 2025 with an electronic platform.
- Border agents processed 289,510 visa applications during that stretch.
- Cabinet greenlit the Visa Reciprocity Policy to balance security and growth.
- Immigration officials churned out 51,285 travel documents in that window.
- Ordinary passports made up 50,155 of those issued credentials.
- Refugees received 682 African guest IDs for banking and work access.
- Digital ID cards are slated to drop in the 2026/27 budget cycle.
- All pending visa changes must be locked in by 1 April.
- Stakeholder feedback gets compiled before mid-February wraps up.
- Domestic and farm workers will get a grace period to regularize paperwork.
- Business visa plans head back to Cabinet after final tweaks.
- The ministry hit an 84.75% spending rate on allocated funds.
- Iipumbu called that number proof of disciplined project delivery.
