Visa requirements for Mozambican citizens

Mozambican citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Mozambique and 54 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

138 countries ask holders of the Mozambican passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Mozambique without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda and 133 others.

The reverse holds for 2 countries: holders of the Mozambican passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Mozambique (Bangladesh and Sri Lanka).

96 countries ask holders of the Mozambican passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 24 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Mozambique.

72 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Mozambique, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Mozambique, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in South Africa (29).

The United States refused 25% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Mozambique in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 83 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 113 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Mozambique refused 14% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 46th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Mozambican passport

By continent, the Mozambican passport is visa-free in 19 countries in Africa, 7 countries in the Americas, 3 countries in Asia and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Mozambican citizens are allowed in Dominica (180 days), Vanuatu (120 days), Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), Botswana (90 days) and Ecuador (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Mozambican citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia and 16 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Mozambican citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 39 others. Ivory Coast and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Mozambique’s neighbours

Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Eswatini, South Africa, Zambia and Malawi admit Mozambican citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the South African passport ranks 97th (95 destinations), the passport of Eswatini ranks 124th (69 destinations), the Malawian passport ranks 125th (68 destinations), the Tanzanian passport ranks 127th (67 destinations) and the Zambian passport ranks 135th (63 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 37 can enter visa-free, 155 get a visa on arrival and 6 need an e-Visa for Mozambique.