{"question":{"passport":"ZMB","destination":"MWI","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"conditional","headline":"Visa-free, 30 days","requirement":{"kind":"none","message":"You can travel without arranging a visa."},"stay":{"kind":"DAYS","maxDays":30,"ruleType":"RESETS_ON_EXIT","phrasing":"You may stay up to 30 days."},"conditions":[{"kind":"AGREEMENT_IN_FORCE","text":"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."}],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"mwi-immigration-amend-regs-2026","url":"https://embassymalawi.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMMIGRATION-AMENDMENT-REGULATIONS-2025_125837_260102_154611-2.pdf","passage":"(b) nationals from the Southern African Development Community (SADC)\n    countries, except for those countries that subject Malawians to a visa requirement;\n         (c) nationals from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa\n    (COMESA) countries, except for those countries that subject Malawians to a visa\n    requirement;","explanation":"The Second Schedule exempts nationals from SADC and COMESA countries from the visa requirement, subject only to the reciprocity carve-out; each of these fifteen issuers is a SADC or COMESA member and none appears in the Department's 2026 Category One or Category Two lists, so the exemption applies to it.","publisher":"The Malawi Gazette Supplement, dated 2nd January, 2026, containing\n   Regulations, Rules, etc                                (No. 1A)\nGOVERNMENT NOTICE NO. 1\n\n                                    IMMIGRATION ACT\n                                       (CAP. 15:03)\n              IMMIGRATION (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2026\n     IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 40 of the Immigration Act,\nI, PETER MUKHITO, Minister of Homeland Security, make the following Regulations"},"checkedAt":"2026-08-29","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[],"scope":{"covers":["recorded entry requirement","recorded stay allowance"],"notEstablished":["personal admission decision","work permission","residence rights","tax position","individual eligibility for every condition"],"passportType":"ordinary"}}