# Malawi entry answer

Botswana passport → Malawi
Entry date: 2026-09-12

Visa-free, 30 days
You can travel without arranging a visa.
You may stay up to 30 days.

Conditions:
- The schedule's SADC/COMESA exemption excludes only members that subject Malawians to a visa requirement. Each of these fifteen issuers is a SADC or COMESA member; none is named in the Department's Category One list of 47 countries requiring a visa in advance, and none is named in the Category Two list of 161 countries eligible for a visa on arrival, so none triggers the 'except for those countries that subject Malawians to a visa requirement' carve-out.

Source: https://embassymalawi.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMMIGRATION-AMENDMENT-REGULATIONS-2025_125837_260102_154611-2.pdf
Source checked: 2026-08-29
Data snapshot: 2026-09-10

This establishes the recorded entry rule and stay allowance, not admission, work permission, residence rights or a tax position.
https://aevamo.com/requirements/bwa/mwi/

## Source passage

> (b) nationals from the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
>     countries, except for those countries that subject Malawians to a visa requirement;
>          (c) nationals from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
>     (COMESA) countries, except for those countries that subject Malawians to a visa
>     requirement;

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