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Passports

We no longer issue standard (5 and 10 year) British passports at this High Commission. You now need to apply for your passport at our Regional Passport Processing Centre in Pretoria, South Africa.

The Regional Passport Processing Centre website will tell you everything you need to know about applying for a new or replacement British passport from Botswana.

Further detailed information on the application process is available here.

Why have we done this? Please see this leaflet [PDF, 77.0 Kb] for all the changes related to the way we issue passports overseas.  If you need to travel urgently and your standard passport is not available we may be able to help you with emergency travel documentation:

• Emergency Travel Document Application Form (North American and Canada) [PDF, 171.1 Kb]
• Emergency Travel Document Application Form (Rest of the World) [PDF, 168.3 Kb].

Please call the Consular Section of the High Commission and explain that you need to travel urgently.

How to apply for a UK passport

There's a single process for applying for your first passport or to renew or replace it, if you are a UK resident living overseas.