Visa on arrival

Malawi visa for citizens of Timor-Leste

Citizens of Timor-Leste get a Malawi visa on arrival at passport control. You don’t apply in advance, but border officers check your passport, return ticket and accommodation. Visago checks your documents before you travel. It costs $19.

For citizens of Timor-Leste: the passport opens 55 countries visa-free; Dili — Lilongwe: ≈ 9,970 km, about 13 hours of flying.

Checked by visa analyst Albert Brown, 13 years of experience · September 26, 2026

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Can I travel to Malawi without a visa on a Timor-Leste passport?

You don’t need to apply in advance: citizens of Timor-Leste get the visa on arrival. To avoid problems at the border, we check your documents for $19.

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Malawi visa rules at a glance

With a Timor-Leste passport you can visit 55 countries visa-free, 27 with a visa on arrival and 53 with an e-visa; 63 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Timor-Leste passport ranks 99th of 199.
Timor-Leste passport: visa-free access to 55 countries; Malawi passport: 41.
Citizens of Timor-Leste and Malawi can travel together visa-free to 15 countries, for example: Singapore, Malaysia, Micronesia, Kiribati, Seychelles, Eswatini, Palestine, Kosovo, Angola, Ecuador, Haiti, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, and Hong Kong.
Citizens of Malawi, in turn, get a visa on arrival in Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste visa for citizens of Malawi

Travelling to Malawi: good to know

Dili — Lilongwe: about 9,970 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 13 hours.
Time difference with your country’s capital: −7 hours.
Local time: Dili 12:00 — Lilongwe 05:00.
Local currency: Malawian Kwacha.
Languages: English and Nyanja.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ MWK 1,748.
Malawi is the 68th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Timor-Leste.