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Temporary Employment Permit. A Malawian organization must apply for a foreigner who has been offered specified employment; the new applicant must wait outside Malawi until approval, and the organization submits the permit form and supporting documents at immigration offices.

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Temporary Employment Permit

Permit for specified employment; initial duration, family scope and later residence require verification.

Who qualifies

  • A Malawian organization must apply for a foreigner who has been offered specified employment; the new applicant must wait outside Malawi until approval, and the organization submits the permit form and supporting documents at immigration offices.
    Malawi immigration, temporary employment permit

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Do you have a binding job offer in that country?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

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
Employer sponsorship and approval before entering Malawi for the job.
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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

    2 years, renewable for 2 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.
  • Renewed lawful employment residence can build the seven-year naturalisation period; the authority sets the approved employment term.
  • 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 temporary employment permit procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open immigration.gov.mw ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The signed job offer, salary, and recognized qualifications
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
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