On this page below you will find all the information you need for your visa application

• Our order form, click here to open
• To avoid errors, please complete this form digitally, print and sign
• Everything you write on this form will appear on the invoice
• With this form, we also have your contact details if we need to call or email you
• We will send you the invoice by email.
• With this form, you authorise us to apply for your visa.

You must complete the application form for Mali twice, using the same pen/ink and in block letters.

Click here to download the application form.

• Your passport.
• We need to have the passport physically, so no copy.
• Your passport must still be valid for at least 6½ months after the validity of the visa (ie one and a half year valid if it is an annual visa).
• The passport must have at least two blank facing visa pages.

• Two (2 x) color passport photos.
• Note that these photos are according to the Dutch standard of ‘passport photo’, that is to say, looking forward, white background, do not laugh and do not show teeth.
• Wearing glasses in the photo is not permitted
• Nine times out of ten, the consulate does not accept a photo from your own printer. If you do so, make sure you use gloss paper and there are no stripes visible from the print.
• Do not staple the photo to the application form, but rather use a Pritt stick. If you do not have a Pritt stick, please include your loose photo and we will attach it to the form for you.
• Do not stick the photos with adhesive tape

Other conditions that you must pay extra attention to:

• The photos may not be older than 3 months
• The photos may not be the same as on the passport unless the passport is not older than 3 months
• The photos must have a white background.

You must provide copies of the first 3 pages of your passport.

Your employer must prepare a letter, in duplicate, with the following information;

• On company letterhead.
• Letters must be drawn up and submitted in French.
• Addressed to the embassy in Brussels;

l’ambassade de la République du Mali

Molièrelaan 487

1050 Elsene, Belgique

• State the name and address of the Dutch company.
• Provide the applicant’s full name, date of birth, and passport information.
• Indicate the reasons for the trip.
• Indicate the number of entries and the required duration of the visa.
• State that the company guarantees any expenses.
• Provide the full address and contact details of the inviting party or of the hotel where the applicant will be staying.
• The letter must be stamped and signed by the manager/owner of the company.

Provide a printout, in duplicate, from the Chamber of Commerce of the company you are working for.

The Chamber of Commerce printout may not be older than 3 months.

• A booking confirmation of your flight (return ticket)
• The consulate wants to see when you enter the country and go out again
• It may be a booking for a flight, bus, train, boat
• Your name must be mentioned on it
• The consulate must recognize the confirmation as being that it comes from a travel agency or an airline.
• A confirmation of a flight by a customer of your will not be accepted because the consulate will say that anyone can do this. Think of logos, photos or other features that an official confirmation of an airline by mail in general meets
• Our advice, make sure you take out cancellation insurance when purchasing your flight. In the event that you do not receive your visa, you will not suffer any financial

For your request, we need a hotel reservation or an invitation from your reference person.

A number of points must be stated on the hotel reservation;

• The name of the hotel
• Full address + hotel post box
• the telephone number of the hotel
• The dates you will be staying at the hotel.

If you receive an invitation from a reference person, it must be stated here;

* You must have a copy of the passport / national ID card of your reference person. If your reference person does not have Malian nationality, also a copy of his / her residence document.

• Full name of your reference person.
• The address of your reference person.
• Contact details of your reference person.
• The dates that you stay with your reference person.
• The invitation must be signed by your reference person.

For the visa application, you must be vaccinated against yellow fever. You must enclose a copy of the yellow booklet, within the valid stamp that you have been vaccinated against yellow fever.

Our advice: ask the GGD or your doctor whether further vaccinations are needed for this country. But for the visa application is the vaccination against yellow fever sufficient.

1.)

If you are Dutch, you do not need additional documents.

2.)

For the EU or Schengen country nationalities:

If nationality comes from an EU or Schengen country (not for a Dutch passport), you must show that you are registered in the Netherlands.
You have two options;

• Option 1: a copy of the front- and backside of your residence permit.
• Option 2: a copy of the extract from the population register (GBA).

3.)

Other nationalities from outside the EU or Schengen countries:

• You need a copy of your Dutch residence permit’s front- and back-side for all nationalities from outside the EU and Schengen countries.