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Entry Visa

MaliShort stays and visits

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

A visa is normally required: to enter Mali a foreigner must hold an entry visa, and non-immigrants must present one unless exempt. The official texts do not list exempt nationalities.

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Limits of the record
  • Items 1-3 of Article 8 of the law are missing from the published Journal Officiel text.
  • No nationality matrix in the sources read.

What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

The entry visa serves non-immigrants: travellers in transit, aircraft crew on stopover, tourists and other visitors, officials and people on assignment (with family and dependants), people coming to work temporarily, and students.

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What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

The entry visa is valid for at most 90 days from issue, is placed in the passport and can be renewed once. It must be used within 3 months if issued by a consulate or embassy, or within 1 month if issued by the immigration services.

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What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

Non-immigrants must show a valid passport or travel document, a return or onward ticket and required international vaccination certificates, and fill in an information form with the visa application. Without a return or onward ticket, a repatriation deposit or a repatriation guarantee is required.

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Limits of the record
  • Funds, accommodation and insurance evidence are not specified in the texts read.

Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

The visa is issued by the immigration services or by Mali's diplomatic and consular agents; an embassy or consulate issues it only to residents of its area. Where Mali has no embassy or consulate, the immigration authority can issue it in writing, on request or at the request of a contact in Mali. A visa on arrival at the border is possible only in exceptional cases set by ministerial order. Foreigners over 18 staying beyond three months must obtain a temporary residence authorisation.

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  • The ministerial order on visas at the border was not found.
  • https://sgg-mali.ml/JO/2005/mali-jo-2005-28.pdf
    ARTICLE 4 : Le visa d’entrée est délivré, sous l’autorité du Ministre chargé de la Sécurité Intérieure, par les services chargés de l’immigration, et sur délégation du Ministre chargé de la Sécurité intérieure, par les agents diplomatiques et consulaires
  • https://sgg-mali.ml/JO/2005/mali-jo-2005-28.pdf
    ARTICLE 5 : Le visa d’entrée est délivré par écrit par l’autorité en charge de l’immigration, soit sur leur demande, soit sur requête d’un correspondant au Mali, aux ressortissants de pays où le Mali n’a pas de représentation diplomatique ou consulaire.
  • https://sgg-mali.ml/JO/2005/mali-jo-2005-28.pdf
    ARTICLE 6 : La délivrance du visa d’entrée par le Consulat ou l’Ambassade du Mali est strictement réservée aux seuls étrangers qui résident dans la zone couverte par sa juridiction.
  • https://sgg-mali.ml/JO/2005/mali-jo-2005-28.pdf
    ARTICLE 12 : Un arrêté du Ministre chargé de la Sécurité Intérieure fixe les conditions de délivrance du visa d’entrée à l’ arrivée au poste - frontière, pour les cas exceptionnels.
  • https://sgg-mali.ml/JO/2005/mali-jo-2005-01.pdf
    ARTICLE 12 : Tout étranger âgé de plus de 18 ans doit, à l’expiration d’un délai de trois mois, depuis son entrée sur le territoire du Mali, se faire délivrer une autorisation de séjour temporaire par l’Autorité en charge de l’immigration.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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