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Temporary Work Visa

AlgeriaWork

Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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

This is a short-stay, work-related entry visa for applicants undertaking assistance or service provision under a contract, or employment supported by an employment contract and provisional temporary-work authorisation. The stated maximum stay is 03 months.

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  • L136
    10. The application for a temporary work visa (for a maximum stay of 03 months) must be accompanied by:
  • L138
    * Either an assistance or service provision contract, in which case, the visa is not subject to the prior obtaining of the Provisional Authorization for Temporary Work (APTT);
  • L139
    * Or an employment contract, a Provisional Authorization for Temporary Work (APTT) and a repatriation commitment.

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

A contractual relationship is required: either an assistance/service provision contract, or an employment contract. For the employment branch, the application must also include an APTT and a repatriation commitment. For the assistance/service branch, prior obtaining of an APTT is expressly not required for the visa.

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Limits of the record
  • The source does not specify the required location or characteristics of the employer or service-contract counterparty.
  • It does not identify who must issue the repatriation commitment or obtain the APTT.
  • L138
    * Either an assistance or service provision contract, in which case, the visa is not subject to the prior obtaining of the Provisional Authorization for Temporary Work (APTT);
  • L139
    * Or an employment contract, a Provisional Authorization for Temporary Work (APTT) and a repatriation commitment.

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

The decisive distinction is the contractual form of the short assignment, rather than a stated occupational or salary threshold: assistance/service provision contracts follow a visa branch without prior APTT, whereas employment contracts require an APTT and a repatriation commitment. The route is framed around a maximum stay of 03 months.

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Limits of the record
  • No occupation, qualification, experience, salary, skill-level, shortage-list or labour-market threshold is established by the captured evidence.
  • The substantive professional conditions for obtaining an APTT are not provided.
  • L136
    10. The application for a temporary work visa (for a maximum stay of 03 months) must be accompanied by:
  • L138
    * Either an assistance or service provision contract, in which case, the visa is not subject to the prior obtaining of the Provisional Authorization for Temporary Work (APTT);
  • L139
    * Or an employment contract, a Provisional Authorization for Temporary Work (APTT) and a repatriation commitment.

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

The temporary work visa covers a stay of at most 03 months to work under either an assistance or service-provision contract or an employment contract. The official source does not state whether the holder is tied to one employer, occupation or sector, or whether family members may accompany.

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Limits of the record
  • The source does not say whether the holder of a temporary work visa may change employer.
  • The source does not say whether part-time work is permitted.
  • The source does not say whether accompanying family members have any right to work.
  • The source does not describe the rights attached to the Provisional Authorization for Temporary Work (APTT) itself, nor who may issue, vary or withdraw it.
  • ACCESS FAILURE, observed 2026-09-22: the MFA page "Work and residence in Algeria" (https://www.mfa.gov.dz/services-for-foreigners/work-and-residence-in-algeria), which is the page the entry-visa page links to for this topic, renders a title and navigation chrome but NO body content. Verified identical in all three language versions (/, /fr/, /ar/). Captured as DZ__mfa_work_and_residence_in_algeria.txt.
  • ACCESS FAILURE, observed 2026-09-22: https://www.joradp.dz/FTP/jo-francais/1981/F1981028.PDF (Journal Officiel expected to carry Loi n° 81-10 on the conditions of employment of foreign workers) downloads as a 1.63 MB PDF but is a scanned image with no text layer — 24 characters extracted. No usable text, so no statutory work-rights provision could be quoted.
  • NOT ESTABLISHED: the date of effect of the MFA page itself. The page carries no publication or revision date, so its currency could not be verified.

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

The route-specific maximum stay is 03 months. The page says generally that visas can be extended in Algeria under certain conditions, but does not establish a renewal or extension entitlement for this temporary work visa. No longer-term residence direction is stated for this route.

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Limits of the record
  • The normal visa-validity period and normal granted stay, as distinct from the route's maximum stay, are not specified.
  • The conditions, procedure and availability of renewal or extension for this particular visa are not established.
  • The interaction between the route-specific 03-month maximum and the generic extension wording is unclear.
  • No longer-term residence or settlement progression is established.
  • L136
    The application for a temporary work visa (for a maximum stay of 03 months) must be accompanied by:
  • L159
    - Duration of visa validity: 90 days, 180 days, one (01) year and two (2) years.

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

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