On 15 October 2024, Sweden closed its Embassy Office in Bamako, Mali. The Embassy's operations are now conducted from Stockholm until the Embassy is formally closed on 31 December 2024.
The Embassy can be reached via e-mail and during office hours via the Ministry for Foreign Affairs switchboard.
If you want to apply for a work permit, residence permit for studies or residence permit to live with a family member in Sweden, you are referred to the Swedish embassies in Rabat, Morocco, or Abuja, Nigeria.
In addition to Malian citizens, the services hitherto provided by the Swedish embassy in Bamako also include citizens of Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Niger.
If you have already been in contact with the embassy in Bamako and are waiting for a residence permit card to be able to move to Sweden, you will be contacted to get information about your card.
Application for a Schengen visa
If you live in Mali, or in any of the other countries hitherto served by the Swedish embassy in Bamako, and you want to apply for a Schengen visa to visit Sweden, you are referred to one of VFS Global's offices within the area of responsibility pf the Swedish embassy in Nairobi. VFS offices are located in:
Kenya (Nairobi)
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
Nigeria (Abuja, Lagos)
South Africa (Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town)
Tanzania (Dar es Salaam)
Zambia (Lusaka)
Zimbabwe (Harare)
Uganda (Kampala)
VFS Global is an external service provider that receives applications for Schengen visas, but it is the Swedish embassy in Nairobi that makes decisions on visa applications in Sub-Saharian Africa.
If you have a complaint or suspect criminal offences or irregularities related to the Swedish Foreign Service’s activities, please report these to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
