Botswana Passport Application (Form PP1 Rev)

Candidate selection

GOV-4328 ("GovSchema Standard Research", 2026-07-22). Closes Botswana's own pre-scouted, STRONG banked backlog left open by the GOV-4307 cycle (see CATALOG.md's Known Gaps entry 0e) — Form PP1 Rev, the last of four disclosed-STRONG Botswana verticals (Taxes, Visa, DMV, Passport) remaining unauthored after GOV-4321 authored Visa (bw/dic/visa-application@1.0.0). Opens Botswana's Passport vertical (4 of 6); Botswana's other two screened verticals (Business Formation, National ID) remain confirmed dead ends per the GOV-4307 cycle's own six-vertical screening pass.

Reaching the live source

Independently re-fetched and re-hashed rather than trusted from the prior cycle's own banked report alone:

• https://www.botswanaembassy.org/sites/default/files/documents/Botswana_Passport_Application_Form.pdf
• HTTP 200, Content-Type: application/pdf, 123,496 bytes (byte-for-byte match with the GOV-4307 cycle's own reported size).
• sha256 7ea390948b63c0a43aeae95432f5b7abbef62faff999db9e1499c54020abada7.
• Begins %PDF-1.4. Confirmed mechanically: zero /AcroForm, /Widget, and /FT occurrences in the raw bytes (a flat, print-and-fill specimen, not an interactive AcroForm PDF), and exactly 7 /Type/Page objects.
• gov.bw itself WAF-blocks this particular form's own hosting path directly (per the GOV-4307 cycle's own disclosed finding); this Botswana-embassy mirror is unauthenticated and ungated. Its letterhead, form number (PP1 Rev), and section structure match the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's other Botswana-government-hosted forms (Form 1 Visa, Form DL1) in layout convention, corroborating it as the standard specimen rather than a stale or altered mirror.

Extraction method

Text extracted via pdfjs-dist's getTextContent() API (vendored at /tmp/node_modules/pdfjs-dist from prior cycles), grouped by y-coordinate row and sorted by x-coordinate. All 7 pages additionally rendered to PNG at 2.5x scale via pdfjs-dist + node-canvas (vendored at /tmp/node_modules/canvas) and visually cross-checked against the extracted text for every checkbox grid and box-grouping described in the findings below — this form's dense multi-column box layout (e.g. Section 2's Father/Mother columns, Section 4's Chief/Headman box grid) is materially under-represented by text position alone.

Document structure

The PDF's 7 pages: page 1 (Passport Type, delivery preference, collection signature); page 2 (Notes on Completing the Application Form — informational, no applicant-facing fields); pages 3-5 (Sections 1-5: Personal Details, Parents' Details, Next of Kin, Traditional Authority, Parent/Legal Guardian's Consent); page 6 (Section 6: Declaration by the Applicant, plus specimen signature boxes); page 7 (entirely "For Official Use Only" — excluded, see Finding 10 below).

Models 72 fields[] across 8 steps (Eligibility Gates; Passport Type and Delivery; Section 1 Personal Details; Section 2 Parents' Details; Section 3 Next of Kin; Section 4 Traditional Authority; Section 5 Parent or Legal Guardian's Consent; Section 6 Declaration) plus 5 documents[] entries.

Disclosed source-fidelity findings

1. passportType confirmed via rendered image as a genuine 2x2 checkbox grid (Local/Official/National/Diplomatic), each with its own printed box. The raw text layer alone ("Local Official" / "National Diplomatic" as two text rows) under-represents the true 4-option single-select structure; a targeted crop of the rendered PNG confirms all four options each carry their own checkbox glyph, unlike the sibling bw/dic/visa-application's Sex row (only one option of two printed a box). Modelled as a required 4-value enum.
2. passportSentToName/passportSentToAddress and collectedByName/collectedByAddress modelled as two independent, unconditionally optional blocks, with no selector gating one on the other. Page 1 prints "Passport to be sent to (Name)/Address" and "Or Collected by sent to (Name)/Address" as two side-by-side box groups with no checkbox choosing between them — an applicant fills in whichever delivery method applies and leaves the other blank. This registry's own established disclose-rather-than-fabricate convention (e.g. bw/dic/visa-application Finding 7) is followed rather than inventing an unprinted deliveryMethod selector or an either/or validation rule the source does not state. The signature/date line beneath these blocks ("To be signed by the person collecting the Passport at the time of collection") is excluded — it is completed later, at physical collection, not at application time.
3. applicantIsMinor is a directly-supplied, unprinted boolean eligibility gate, not derived from dateOfBirth. Section 5's own header reads "Consent of Parent or Legal Guardian: (To be completed if the applicant is under 21 years of age)" — the same unprinted-condition convention this registry's Zambia (zm/dnrpc/passport-application), Ethiopia, Malta, and Cyprus passport schemas use for their own section-applicability gates, since GSP-0013's Condition grammar has no date-arithmetic/age-derivation operator to compute this from dateOfBirth directly. Note 3 on page 2 of the source's own completion notes cites this same conditional but mislabels it "Section 1b" ("Legal Guardian's consent (Section 1b) to be completed when the applicant is a minor under the age of 21 years") — the actual guardian-consent section is unambiguously Section 5 per its own printed heading; this cross-reference mismatch is disclosed here as a printed error in the source's own notes, not resolved or silently corrected.
4. applicantOverSixteen is a second directly-supplied, unprinted boolean eligibility gate, drawn from the form's own completion notes rather than a section header. Notes page item 1 (page 2 of the source) reads "All applications for Botswana passports in respect of applicants over 16 years must be supported by a National Registration Identity Card (O Mang). Only in extremely exceptional circumstances shall a birth certificate or an affidavit in lieu of birth certificate completed by a parent on behalf of the applicant and attested by Commissioner of Oaths, be accepted." This gates two mutually exclusive documents[] entries (nationalIdOmang requiredWhen true; birthCertificateOrAffidavit requiredWhen false) rather than modelling a single ambiguous "identity evidence" document.
5. Section 2 (Parents' Details) fields are modelled as required for both Father and Mother, except fatherPreviousNationality/ motherPreviousNationality, left optional. The source prints no optionality marker anywhere in Section 2, unlike Section 5's own explicit age-based conditional — but "Previous Nationality" only logically applies to a parent whose nationality changed (e.g. through naturalization), so it is modelled optional as a disclosed judgment call, while every other Section 2 field (name, address, date/place/ country of birth, present nationality) is modelled required per the source's own lack of an optionality marker.
6. Section 4 (traditional-authority particulars: Chief, Headman, Ward, Kgotla/Town/Village, District) is modelled as unconditionally required, since the source prints no "if applicable" annotation distinguishing it from Sections 1-3 — disclosed here since an urban applicant without a personal Chief/Headman affiliation may find this section's universal requiredness a practical burden the source itself does not address.
7. distinguishingMarks modelled as the sole optional field within Section 1's personal-description block. Unlike height/colour-of-hair/colour-of-eyes (universal physical descriptors every applicant has an answer for), not every applicant has a distinguishing mark — the source prints no optionality marker, but this is the same judgment-call convention this registry applies to comparable "identifying marks" fields elsewhere (disclosed rather than silently defaulted).
8. heightMetres/heightCentimetres modelled as two separate integer fields, matching the source's own two adjacent boxes ("Height: [box] Metres [box] Cm") and this registry's established precedent for the same split in zm/dnrpc/passport-application.
9. detailsOfLegalCustody modelled bare-optional, not gated on applicantIsMinor. Section 5 prints "(If relationship not father or mother circumstances and proof of legal custody must be provided)" as a free-standing conditional instruction with no separate checkbox of its own — the same disclosed no-printed-signal treatment this registry's Zambia/Ethiopia passport schemas use for their own analogous ungated optional fields (e.g. zm/dnrpc/passport-application's sponsoringGovernmentDepartment).
10. Page 7's entire "For Official Use Only" section is excluded, including its own "APPLICANT'S IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS" checklist (Birth Certificate/National Reg. ID/Marriage Particulars/Adoption Papers/Others tick-boxes) — despite its heading naming the applicant's documents, the whole page sits beneath the page's own "For Official Use Only" banner and is completed by DIC staff recording which documents were physically produced, receipt/fee particulars, and application-checked-by sign-off, none of which is applicant-supplied data.
11. proofOfMarriageOrCustomaryLawLetter modelled as a fifth documents[] entry, requiredWhen title equals MRS. Page 3, printed directly beside the Mr./Mrs./Miss title checkboxes: "(If married female proof of marriage should be produced if not previously provided Or A letter from the Chief/Headman, if married under Customary Law)". This is the same conditional-document-requirement pattern this schema already applies to nationalIdOmang/birthCertificateOrAffidavit (Finding 4) — a printed requirement gated on a directly-answerable field rather than an unprinted derived condition. The source's own "if not previously provided" qualifier (an applicant who already submitted proof of marriage on a prior application need not resubmit it) is not separately modelled, since GSP-0013's Condition grammar has no way to represent "unless already on file with the agency" — the same disclose-rather-than-fabricate treatment this schema's own Finding 2 applies to an analogous source nuance the Condition grammar cannot express. This branch is exercised by the existing valid-adult-collected-by-distinguishing-mark fixture, which already sets title: "MRS".

Conformance

3 valid mock scenarios (an adult applicant with National ID Omang identity evidence and no guardian consent triggered; a minor applicant under 21 triggering full guardian consent, with birth-certificate identity evidence; an adult applicant using the collected-by delivery method with a distinguishing mark disclosed, and — since this scenario's title is MRS — the proofOfMarriageOrCustomaryLawLetter requiredWhen branch) plus 14 mutation-control fixtures (a missing statically-required field for each of passportType, title, surname, dateOfBirth, nationalStatus, fatherSurname, motherSurname, nextOfKinSurname, nameOfChief, district, and applicantSignature; a missing requiredWhen-true guardianSurname while applicantIsMinor is true; an invalid passportType enum value; and an unknown top-level field) are committed under conformance/bw/dic/passport-application/1.0.0/, matching this registry's established fixture convention of validating fields[] values only — the documents[] array's own three conditional entries (nationalIdOmang/birthCertificateOrAffidavit/ proofOfMarriageOrCustomaryLawLetter) are exercised by the applicantOverSixteen and title branches already covered across the 3 valid scenarios, not by separate mutation fixtures, since this registry's fixture format has no document-satisfaction representation.

An ephemeral, from-scratch conformance checker (deriving required/ requiredWhen rules directly from this schema's own fields[], discarded after use, not committed) ran all 17 fixtures: all 3 valid scenarios at 0 errors, all 14 mutation controls each raising exactly 1 error, and confirmed every requiredWhen field reference resolves (0 dangling references). Validated clean with node tools/validate.mjs and node tools/validate-ajv.mjs, individually and as part of the full registry run. registry-index.json regenerated via npm run build-index in tools/govschema-client/.