Mozambique: Portugal may be one of countries with visa-free entry – president

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Mozambique: Portugal may be one of countries with visa-free entry – president

4:23 CAT | 02 Sep 2022

Photo: Lusa

The President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, on Friday said that Portugal may join the list of countries exempt from visa requirements for entry into the country.

“We are drawing up a list of countries that will be visa-free and I hope Portugal will be there,” said Nyusi, at a joint press conference with the Portuguese prime minister, after the two participated in the opening of the investment business forum. between the two countries and visited FACIM (Maputo International Fair).

Filipe Nyusi also indicated that “it is a matter of informalizing and seeing which countries are part of the automatically accepted list”.

And he pointed out that visas are one of the issues included “in the 20 measures of the economic facilitation package”, referring that anyone “with investments of 50 million” is entitled to a residence card valid for five years.

“If Portugal delays, we will unilaterally open the doors”, he said. Nyusi justified that Portugal does not carry risks or “transports crime to Mozambique”.

The head of state said that “Mozambicans find it more difficult to go to Portugal than the other way around”.

The Portuguese Government approved on Thursday the regulations for the entry into force of the mobility agreement in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), which will facilitate the entry into Portugal of citizens of these countries.

Today, Portugal’s prime minister said he hopes that this decree-law will be enacted and can enter into force quickly, with visa applications from citizens of CPLP member countries starting to be “out of the box” accepted, provided they do not have any interdiction order or expulsion in the Schengen area.

“For 99.9% of all CPLP natives, the granting of a visa will become automatic”, said António Costa.

Costa defended that “the excellence of political relationship in the CPLP has to be translated into the daily lives of citizens”.

However, regarding a possible exemption, the Portuguese Head of Government noted that the “visa policy is a community issue and defined by the European Union” and pointed out that what can be done is precisely to speed up the processes.

Source: Lusa