What the Mozambique visa rules mean for Cape Verde travellers
Cape Verde citizens can enter Mozambique without a visa and stay for up to 30 days. You only need a valid Cape Verde passport at the border; immigration officers may still ask for a return or onward ticket, proof of accommodation and enough money for your stay. The 30-day limit usually counts calendar days from your arrival, so book your return flight inside that window.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Mozambique applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: Decree 10/2023 requires the citizens it exempts from the visa to hold a passport valid for at least six months, and the eVisa portal asks for a passport valid more than 6 months. The UK government says you also need at …
- Blank passport pages: Your passport needs at least 2 blank pages.
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: WHO's country list says Mozambique requires proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers aged 1 year or over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission, and from travellers who have transited fo…
- Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for entry to Mozambique. Canada's travel advice says to make sure you get travel insurance that includes coverage for medical evacuation and hospita…
Mozambique entry rules compared
Mozambique lets 17 passports in without a visa, offers a visa on arrival to 1, issues eVisas to 145 and requires an embassy visa from 6. Cape Verde citizens are treated the same way as Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya and Lesotho. Overall the Cape Verde passport ranks #129 in the world with 37 visa-free destinations.
More travel options
Planning a longer trip in Africa? With a Cape Verde passport you can also visit 21 countries in the region without a visa, including Angola, Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.
In the other direction, Mozambique citizens can visit Cape Verde visa-free for up to 90 days.