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Entry Visa for Licensed Company or Institution Invitee

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

This entry visa is for people invited by companies or institutions operating in Afghanistan with an official licence from the relevant Afghan authority. It is an entry-visa category; the page does not establish a separate right to take employment.

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Limits of the record
  • The official page does not establish the separate work-authorisation requirements.
  • Entry Visa, first paragraph: licensed company or institution invitees
    This visa is issued to individuals invited by companies or institutions operating in Afghanistan, which hold an official license from the relevant institutions of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The visa is granted based on an official letter from the relevant institution and with the approval of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Afghanistan’s political and consular missions abroad.

Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The inviting company or institution must operate in Afghanistan and hold an official licence from the relevant authority. The visa requires an official letter from the relevant institution and Ministry of Foreign Affairs approval, and is issued through Afghan diplomatic or consular missions abroad.

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  • Entry Visa, first paragraph: licensed company or institution invitees
    This visa is issued to individuals invited by companies or institutions operating in Afghanistan, which hold an official license from the relevant institutions of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The visa is granted based on an official letter from the relevant institution and with the approval of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Afghanistan’s political and consular missions abroad.

What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the occupation, qualification, experience, salary or skill-level characteristics of this route.

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Limits of the record
  • The source is silent on every applicant-level professional element: minimum qualifications or degrees, years of experience, personal occupational licensing, recognition or accreditation of foreign credentials, regulated-profession registration, language requirement, and any occupation list. It also does not say which body licenses the inviting company, nor whether a separate work permit (outside the MFA's remit) imposes professional requirements.
  • Entry Visa (page body, mfa.gov.af/en/page/39100)
    This visa is issued to individuals invited by companies or institutions operating in Afghanistan, which hold an official license from the relevant institutions of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The visa is granted based on an official letter from the relevant institution and with the approval of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Afghanistan’s political and consular missions abroad.

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

Foreign workers must obtain a legal work permit: the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs reports referring foreign workers without one to its General Directorate of Work Forces. Its current procedural statement separately addresses work visas and work permits and calls for preventing employment under tourist visas. These statements do not establish an unrestricted right to work merely from holding an entry visa. The official source does not state any tie to an employer or sector, or whether family members may accompany the holder.

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Limits of the record
  • Route-specific employer and occupation restrictions remain unestablished in the retrieved current material. Family research is excluded by founder instruction.
  • MoLSA inspection report, 12 April 2026, paragraph on work permits
    Additionally, through the activities of labor inspectors, mobile monitoring teams, work permit control, and follow-up units, identified a number of domestic and foreign workers who did not possess legal work permits. These individuals were referred to the General Directorate of Work Forces to obtain a proper legal work permit.
  • MoLSA foreign-national work visa/permit meeting, substantive paragraphs
    At the beginning of the meeting, representatives of the relevant Emirati Institutions presented their reports. After hearing the reports, discussions were held regarding the issuance of work visas to foreign nationals, preventing employment under tourists’ visas, organizing work visa process, and providing further facilities in granting work permits. Foreign nationals must act in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, emphasizing that the process of issuing work permits should be simplified and streamlined. Foreigners who work in the country under tourist visas should be strictly monitored. The Deputy Minister of Labor Affairs, Alhaj Mawlavi Mohammad Zahid Ahmadzai, added these remarks with the participants of the meeting.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

The visa is valid for three months with a one-month stay. The official page does not state renewal conditions or a path to longer-term residence.

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Limits of the record
  • Renewal and longer-term residence conditions are not established.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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