Mozambique

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Visa-free, 30 days

The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.

Entry rule for 12 September 2026 Source checked 29 August 2026
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Entry and stay only. What this covers

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  • Isenção de visto aplica-se para fins de turismo e de negócio, para portadores de passaporte ordinário.

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Official wording

Angola…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Cabo Verde…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Lesotho…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Malawi…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Mauritius…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Namibia…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Sao Tome & Principe (Ordinary)…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Seychelles…30 Days | Tourist & Business…South Africa (Ordinary)…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Swaziland / Eswatini…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Uganda…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Zambia…30 Days | Tourist & Business…Zimbabwe…30 Days | Tourist & Business

Aevamo’s reading

Lei 23/2022 creates the obligation: article 8(2) requires every foreign citizen to present an entry visa issued by Mozambican authorities unless a visa-waiver agreement applies, and article 28 creates the border-visa (visa-on-arrival) route. Decreto 10/2023 and the evisa portal are the exemption instrument and the current operational statement of that framework, not the source of the general requirement.

The official National Immigration Service portal lists each of these countries in its visa-exemption table as 'Visa Exempt' with '30 Days' for tourism and business on all passport types, so their holders enter without a visa and without advance authorisation for a 30-day stay.

Source details

Source checked
29 August 2026
Data snapshot
10 September 2026
Publisher
The official portal of The Mozambique National Immigration Service … Serviço Nacional de Migração
Reference ID
evisa-portal
How the documents behind this regime are dated

decreto-10-2023: Boletim da República I Série Número 63, 31 March 2023; decree enters into force 30 days after publication (1 May 2023). lei-23-2022-texto: Boletim da República I Série Número 251, 2.º Suplemento, 29 December 2022; law entered into force 28 January 2023. evisa-portal: live official portal, platform relaunched 11 February 2026.

What this answer covers Limits & assumptions

Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.

Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.