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Malawi

Business Residence Permit. A foreign self-employed person, partner or proprietor must invest at least US$50,000 from a lawful source outside Malawi in a productive business and submit the BRP application and supporting documents to immigration; business may not operate before approval.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Business Residence Permit

Business residence for five years from approval, renewable for successive five-year periods for a viable business.

Who qualifies

  • A foreign self-employed person, partner or proprietor must invest at least US$50,000 from a lawful source outside Malawi in a productive business and submit the BRP application and supporting documents to immigration; business may not operate before approval.
    Malawi immigration, business residence permit

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Savings you could move or invest?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Savings
About $50,000.
Time
Processing runs from submission of the complete file to the issuing authority’s decision.
Cost
Budget for the application documents, certification, police or medical records and travel in addition to any charge collected at filing.
The hard part
Proving lawful foreign-origin capital and securing approval before operating.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

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Citizens by 2035.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    5 years, renewable for 5 years at a time.

  2. 2034
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test.

  3. 2035
    Citizenship
Language
Adequate English and one prescribed Malawian vernacular language.
Time away
More than seven years of residence in Malawi, supported by lawful-status records; the official guidance publishes no separate maximum-absence count.
Two passports
Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.
  • The five-year business residence permit is renewable in five-year blocks, so a viable business can carry the family beyond the seven-year nationality threshold.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
  • This country asks new citizens to give up their other citizenship.
The law behind these dates
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Living there.

Time you must spend there
The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax
Where you become tax resident follows the days you spend there and where your home is. We map it for your family before you move.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

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Start today.

  1. Open the official business residence permit procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open immigration.gov.mw ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • Proof of savings: at least $50,000
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
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Postern can’t run this for you yet.

The official application forms, submission and recovery specification are not complete. Postern cannot run this application yet.

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ISSUED TO

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