- Macau and Angola signed a visa waiver deal on September 4, 2026, allowing mutual short visits.
- Holders of valid Macau SAR passports can stay in Angola for up to 30 days, and Angolan passport holders get the same in Macau.
- Macau said the entry-into-force date will be announced later, so the agreement is not yet active.
Macau and Angola signed a visa waiver deal on September 4, 2026. The agreement opens 30-day stays for holders of valid Macau SAR passports or Macau SAR Travel Documents entering Angola, and it gives Angolan passport holders the same access to Macau. The start date comes later.
Wong Sio Chak, Macau’s Secretary for Administration and Justice, signed for Macau. Eduardo Velasco Galiano, Angola’s Consul General, signed for Angola. The two men met at the Macau SAR Government Headquarters. Short stays, formal signatures.
Macau’s government said the agreement has been signed, but the exact entry-into-force date will be announced later. It identified the pact as the Acordo sobre a Dispensa Mútua de Vistos, the bilateral text between the Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Angola. The paperwork is done. The clock is not.
The terms run in both directions. Macau residents with a valid passport or Macau SAR Travel Document may enter Angola without a visa and stay for up to 30 days. Angolan passport holders can enter Macau without a visa for up to 30 days. Mutual, not one-way. That is the structure.
Angola becomes the fourth Portuguese-speaking country to enjoy Macau’s visa exemption regime, after Portugal, Brazil and Cabo Verde. That puts it in a narrow Lusophone group tied to Macau’s entry rules. One local report said Macau’s visa-exemption list for its passport holders would rise to 147 countries and territories once the agreement takes effect. The list grows later.
A short list keeps getting one country longer
Macau framed the agreement as a step to facilitate travel, business and exchanges between the two jurisdictions. One report said the deal was intended to strengthen trade ties and broader cooperation. The language points in the same direction. Short visits first.
The agreement lands as a mutual mobility measure, not a symbolic one. It gives each side the same ceiling on stay length and ties the benefit to passports or travel documents already in circulation. That keeps the change narrow. It also keeps the timing tied to a later announcement.
Macau’s notice left the final timing open. The exact entry-into-force date will be announced subsequently. Once that date arrives, travelers will know when the new rules begin to count.
