For a person offered specific employment by a specific employer who has qualifications not readily available in Eswatini.
Eswatini
Eswatini sits in Southern Africa. Its immigration system runs 17 distinct routes — led by starting a business, work and short stays and visits, each set out in official law. All 17 cite an official government source, shown on the route with the date we last read it. Who actually qualifies depends on your full profile.
- Immigration routes
- 17across 12 route categories, each set out in official law
- Source-cited routes
- 17 of 17cite an official government source, with the date we last read it
- Largest category
- Starting a business4 of the 17 routes — see them under Starting a business below
- Region
- Southern Africa
- Capital
- Mbabane
- Population
- 1,256,174
- Official language
- English, Swazi
- Currency
- SZL
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
Immigration routes
All 17 routes, grouped by purpose — 17 of 17 cite an official government source directly.
Work
2 routes
For a dependant-pass holder who has been offered specific employment with a specific employer in Eswatini.
Investment
1 route
For a person with the required prospecting or mining right who has enough capital and resources to conduct the operation.
Starting a business
4 routes
For a person intending to conduct business, agriculture or animal husbandry on permitted land with adequate capital and resources.
For a person intending to carry on a trade, business or profession not prescribed under Class H.
For a person intending to engage in manufacturing in Eswatini with the required approvals and resources.
For a person qualified in a prescribed profession who intends to practise independently in Eswatini.
Study
1 route
For a foreign national accepted for study at an educational institution in Eswatini.
Family
1 route
For a qualifying dependant maintained by a person lawfully permitted to remain in Eswatini.
Living from your own income
1 route
For a person aged at least twenty-one with assured external income, property, pension or investment means who will not take paid employment.
Long-term residence
1 route
For a qualifying long-term resident or established non-working resident seeking Class J status under the statutory conversion rules.
Culture, faith and volunteering
1 route
For a member of a religious or charitable organisation approved by the Minister who will carry out missionary work in Eswatini.
Short stays and visits
2 routes
For a foreign national admitted to Eswatini temporarily for a holiday.
For a temporary purpose in Eswatini that is accepted by immigration and does not require another status.
Humanitarian protection
1 route
For a person seeking protection in Eswatini because return would engage the refugee grounds in the Refugees Act 2017.
Transit
1 route
For a traveller passing through Eswatini to a destination outside the country.
Special cases
1 route
For a short immigration-authorised stay connected to a permit application, appeal or another purpose considered suitable.
Official sources
- eVisa PortalGovernment
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