Rwanda Visa Application (Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration)

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-12

This is a GovSchema Standard Research cycle (GOV-2544), resolving the open, unresolved Visa candidate GOV-2526 left as backlog when Rwanda opened this registry's 43rd jurisdiction via its DMV vertical.

Why this candidate

Rwanda stood at 1 of 6 verticals (DMV) entering this cycle. GOV-2526's own research pass had found two candidate PDFs for Visa (a Rwandan-embassy-in-UK mirror and an RDB-hosted "Proposed New visa application form") but left both unverified for AcroForm field content and disclosed Visa as an open, unresolved candidate rather than a confirmed live source, since DGIE's own current guidance elsewhere points at the IremboGov online portal. This cycle resolves that open item.

Sources examined

Source 1 (primary source, Rwandan Embassy in the UK mirror)

• Authority: Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration (DGIE), under the National Intelligence and Security Service (printed on the form itself).
• Document: "VISA APPLICATION"
• URL (directly retrieved, HTTP 200, no login): https://www.rwandainuk.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/UK_user_upload/Documents/visa_permit_application_form_pdf.pdf
• File identity: sha256:01ffbc05db088ece045c25867f791892dc3b9eed808b1445867f3d29946378c0, 233,226 bytes, Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:05:52 GMT.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-12

Source 2 (independent mirror, Rwandan Embassy in the USA)

• URL (directly retrieved, HTTP 200, no login): <https://www.rwandainusa.gov.rw/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=105216&token=7a561cb3a8fb3e918c39dcc8d01ec1f183c7c270>
• File identity: confirmed byte-identical to Source 1 — sha256:01ffbc05db088ece045c25867f791892dc3b9eed808b1445867f3d29946378c0, 233,226 bytes — despite a materially different Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:26:00 GMT. Both this schema's cited sha256 and the byte count match the GOV-2544 issue's own citation exactly, independently re-derived rather than trusted; the two mirrors' differing Last-Modified headers (2021 vs. 2024) despite identical content indicates independent re-uploads of the same file at different embassies over time, not a stale single copy — corroborating (not merely repeating) the issue's claim that this is DGIE's one current standard specimen distributed to its missions.

Currency check (not a form source — confirms the issuance channel)

• URL: https://www.migration.gov.rw/visa/visitors-visa/
• Finding: the page's own printed text names "the office of a diplomatic mission of Rwanda in the applicant's country of residence" as a current issuance channel — alongside the border post, IremboGov online portal, and the DGIE office itself — for the Holiday/Tourist (V1), Job Search (V4), and Business Survey (V6) visa categories, confirming the embassy/consulate channel this specimen serves remains live, not superseded by an online-only requirement.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-12

Extraction method

pdfjs-dist (legacy build, v3, require'd via createRequire) was used for both page.getAnnotations() (confirming 0 Widget annotations on both of the specimen's 2 pages — a flat, print-and-hand-fill form, unlike rw/rra/vrf-e06-motor-vehicle-registration-form's genuine AcroForm/XFA) and page.getTextContent() (position-sorted by item.transform[4]/[5] for x/y) to read the form's full printed text directly. With 0 widgets, there are no digital field names to cross-check labels against (unlike a genuine AcroForm specimen); every field in this schema is derived directly from the form's own printed numbering (27 numbered items, 1-27) and row/column position, read verbatim from the extracted text layer.

Field inventory

All 27 numbered items were accounted for exactly once. 48 fields[] entries were derived — more than 27 because several numbered items print two or more side-by-side blanks on one row:

| Source item | Printed content | Schema field(s) | |---|---|---| | header | "Visa applied for: Transit / Tourist / Visitor's-Resident – Permanent" / "Length of stay:" | visaTypeApplied, lengthOfStay | | 1 | Given name(s) | givenNames | | 2 | Family name(s) | familyNames | | 3 | Other name(s) | otherNames | | 4 | Gender (tick box) | gender | | 5 | Date of Birth | dateOfBirth | | 6 | Place of Birth — District / Country | placeOfBirthDistrict, placeOfBirthCountry | | 7 | Nationality of Birth | nationalityOfBirth | | 8 | E-mail contact | emailContact | | 9 | Local Telephone contact | localTelephoneContact | | 10 | Passport No | passportNumber | | 11 | Nationality of passport | passportNationality | | 12 | Date of Issue of passport | passportIssueDate | | 13 | Expiry date of passport | passportExpiryDate | | 14 | Profession / Occupation | profession, occupation | | 15 | Employer | employer | | 16 | Father's name / mother's name | fatherName, motherName | | 17 | Father's nationality / mother's nationality | fatherNationality, motherNationality | | 18 | Parent's address | parentsAddress | | 19 | Marital Status (tick box) | maritalStatus | | 20 | Name of spouse / Spouse's nationality | spouseName, spouseNationality | | 21 | Born at ___ on [date] (spouse) | spouseBirthPlace, spouseBirthDate | | 22 | Present address of spouse | spousePresentAddress | | 23 | Former visits or stay in Rwanda, and time of stay | priorVisitsRwanda | | 24 | Former stays in Africa, places, and dates | priorStaysAfrica | | 25 | Reason for visa application | reasonForVisaApplication | | 26 | Proposed persons to be visited and their address | personsToBeVisitedAndAddress | | 27 | Persons accompanying (children) — 2x2 table | child1Name/child1Gender/child1DateOfBirth .. child4Name/child4Gender/child4DateOfBirth | | (unwidgeted signature line) | "Done at, ___ on [date]" | signingPlace, signingDate |

documents[] (2 entries):

• applicantPhoto — the "COLOURED PHOTO" box printed in the right margin of page 1, modelled as supporting-evidence, matching this registry's pe/cancilleria/solicitud-visa-dgc-005 convention for a visa-form photo requirement.
• applicationCertification — "I hereby certify that all information is complete and correct", printed beside the signature line (which has no corresponding fillable widget, consistent with this being a flat form entirely), modelled as an attestation quoting the statement verbatim.

The final printed section ("Do not write below this line, for official use only") is excluded as an office-only block, with no printed content of its own on this specimen beyond that instruction line.

Access notes and judgment calls

1. visaTypeApplied is modelled as free text, not an enum. The header line prints no "put a tick (√) in the relevant box" instruction (unlike items 4 and 19), and the printed punctuation ("Transit / Tourist / Visitor's-Resident – Permanent") does not resolve unambiguously into a fixed category list — "Visitor's-Resident" reads ambiguously as either one hyphenated category or two run together. Rather than invent an enum boundary, this is modelled as free text, consistent with this registry's established practice of not inventing enumerated values a source does not clearly print (cf. uy/mrree's estadoCivil judgment call).
2. Item 14 ("Profession" / "Occupation") is split into two fields. Both labels are printed on the same numbered row with their own blank; rather than treat one as a duplicate or synonym of the other, both are modelled independently since the form itself distinguishes them.
3. Items 16-17-20-21-22 (parents' and spouse's particulars) are each split into their printed side-by-side blanks (father's/mother's name and nationality; spouse's name/nationality/birth place/birth date/address), matching this registry's general convention of one schema field per distinct printed blank rather than one field per printed row number.
4. spouseName, spouseNationality, spouseBirthPlace, spouseBirthDate, and spousePresentAddress are required: false, each gated requiredWhen: { field: "maritalStatus", equals: "married" }. Safe to gate this way because maritalStatus is itself required: true (always present in a conforming submission, per this registry's ph/bi, ph/dfa, ph/lto, and us/uscis precedent for the identical spouse-conditional pattern) — unlike gating on an optional sibling field that can itself be absent (see judgment call 5).
5. child1Gender/child1DateOfBirth through child4Gender/ child4DateOfBirth are NOT machine-gated with requiredWhen against their sibling childNName fields, even though they are logically conditional on a child slot being used. childNName is itself optional and genuinely absent (not empty-string) for an applicant travelling without children, and gating a conditional field on notEquals: "" against an optionally-absent sibling is a misfire class this registry has hit and fixed before (notequals-empty-string-absent-field-bug, e.g. nl/denhaag's symmetric election-types judgment call, kr/nts, ar/dnrpa). The human-facing constraint is documented in each field's description only, not machine-checked.
6. Item 27's children table is a bounded 2x2 printed grid (4 slots), not an open-ended list, flattened to child1..child4, matching this registry's fi/migri bounded-repeating-group convention (GovSchema's flat field model has no array/nested-object field type for repeating groups).
7. Item 21 ("Born at ___ on ___") is modelled as the spouse's own birth place/date, inferred from its position directly continuing item 20's "Name of spouse / Spouse's nationality" row, and preceding item 22's "Present address of spouse" — the whole 20-21-22 block reads as one contiguous spouse-particulars section. There is no independent numbered item for the applicant's own place/date of birth beyond items 5/6, which are already captured.
8. priorVisitsRwanda and priorStaysAfrica are required: false. A first-time applicant genuinely has none to declare and the form provides no separate "none" checkbox, matching this registry's uy/mrree visasAnteriores precedent for an analogous "previous visits" question.
9. personsToBeVisitedAndAddress is required: true. Modelled as potentially citing a hotel or tour operator for an applicant with no personal host, per this registry's uy/mrree referenciaUruguay precedent for an analogous in-country-reference field, rather than treating it as inapplicable to pure tourism.
10. emailContact uses a pattern regex, not format: "email" — the latter is not a permitted validation keyword under spec v0.3's nonFileValidation definition (only pattern/minLength/maxLength/ minimum/maximum/enum); caught by tools/validate-ajv.mjs during this cycle's own validation run and fixed before commit, using the same pattern already established by ae/rta/vehicle-registration-renewal.

Test run (Phase 4)

No live submission was attempted: Rwanda's diplomatic-mission visa channel is a printed, signed, in-person/mailed application to a specific embassy or consulate, not a portal accepting programmatic submissions, and submitting fabricated identity data against a foreign government's consular/immigration process is not a safe or reversible action — the same reasoning already documented for this registry's other consular/immigration schemas (e.g. uy/mrree/formulario-unificado-de-visas, pe/cancilleria/solicitud-visa-dgc-005).

Instead, two independent worked mock records were built from this document's own field inventory and checked with a purpose-written script (validate_instance.mjs, mirroring the approach used by uy/mrree and it/agenzia-entrate/modello-730): compiles schema.json's fields[] into a JSON Schema document checked with ajv (+ajv-formats for date), plus a from-scratch evaluator for requiredWhen/documents[] conditional requiredness.

``` $ node validate_instance.mjs registry/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/schema.json \ conformance/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/tourist-visa-single-first-time-applicant.json Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: PASS requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS

OVERALL: PASS

$ node validate_instance.mjs registry/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/schema.json \ conformance/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/business-visa-married-with-children.json Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: PASS requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS

OVERALL: PASS ```

Mutation controls — four negative fixtures, each targeting a distinct validation rule:

``` $ # mutation-control-missing-required-field.json: 'passportNumber' (required: true) removed Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: FAIL - (root) must have required property 'passportNumber' requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS OVERALL: FAIL

$ # mutation-control-invalid-date-format.json: 'dateOfBirth' set to 'not-a-date' Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: FAIL - /dateOfBirth must match format "date" requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS OVERALL: FAIL

$ # mutation-control-invalid-enum-value.json: 'maritalStatus' set to 'engaged' (not in enum) Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: FAIL - /maritalStatus must be equal to one of the allowed values requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: PASS OVERALL: FAIL

$ # mutation-control-missing-conditional-spouse-field.json: married applicant, 'spouseName' removed Static (required/type/pattern/enum) validation: PASS requiredWhen/documents[] conditional validation: FAIL - field 'spouseName' is required (requiredWhen matched) but not provided OVERALL: FAIL ```

Both meta-schema validators were run against the finished document and pass clean:

``` $ node tools/validate.mjs registry/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/schema.json ok registry/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/schema.json

1/1 document(s) passed.

$ node tools/validate-ajv.mjs registry/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/schema.json ok registry/rw/dgie/visa-application/1.0.0/schema.json [v0.3]

1/1 document(s) validated against the meta-schema (ajv 2020-12). ```

A full-registry run of both validators (383/383 documents) also passed clean, and tools/govschema-client/registry-index.json was regenerated via npm run build-index (in tools/govschema-client/, after npm ci --include=dev since a plain npm ci under a local NODE_ENV=production skips ajv's devDependency install) to include this document's entry.

Rwanda's other open verticals

Business Formation, National ID, Passport, and Taxes remain confirmed dead ends per GOV-2526's own research pass (all routing exclusively through the login/payment-gated IremboGov one-stop portal or in-person-only processes). Rwanda now stands at 2 of 6 verticals (DMV, Visa).