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Foreign Salaried Employment Long-Stay Route

Burkina FasoWork

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

This route does not target a specific occupation or sector: the Code du Travail's foreign-worker provisions apply generally to any "non national non-resident", meaning a foreigner without a permanent Burkinabe residence permit, who is taken on by an enterprise established in Burkina Faso.

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  • The law states the general employer-authorisation and permit rule but does not itself list occupations, sectors or a target labour-market profile.

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

The employer carries the contract-visa duty for a non-national worker: the visa application and the related fees fall on the employer, who must obtain the visa before any start of performance of the employment contract. Omission or refusal of the visa on a non-national's employment contract makes the contract void; where the employer omits to apply for it, the worker is entitled to have the contract's nullity established and to claim damages, and the worker's repatriation is at the employer's expense.

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  • The cited provision governs the contract visa only; it states no job-offer, sponsorship or intra-company-transfer condition.
  • The cited provision does not state what evidence the employer must produce to obtain the visa.
  • chars 4383-5050
    La demande de visa et le paiement des frais y relatifs incombent à l'employeur. Le visa est obtenu par l'employeur avant tout début d'exécution du contrat de travail. Le visa est réputé accordé si l'autorité compétente saisie à cet effet n'a pas fait connaître sa décision dans un délai de quinze jours suivant la réception de la demande de visa. L'omission ou le refus du visa du contrat de travail du non national rend le contrat de travail nul. Si l'employeur omet de demander le visa, le travailleur a le droit de faire constater là nullité du contrat de travail et réclamer des dommages et intérêts, Le rapatriement du travailleur est à la charge de l'employeur.

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 decisive professional requirements of this route.

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  • The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm an occupation, qualification, salary, or shortage-based condition for this route; the implementing decree referred to by the Code was not located.

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

Before being engaged by an enterprise established in Burkina Faso, a non-national non-resident worker must hold a work permit (permis de travail) issued by the central directorate in charge of labour. This requirement does not apply to nationals of a State with which Burkina Faso has concluded a treaty or convention on the free movement of persons or on reciprocity, nor to refugees and stateless persons. The official source does not state what work the permit allows, whether the holder is tied to an employer, occupation or sector, or whether family members may accompany the worker.

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  • No family-accompaniment provision for this specific work route is stated in either source.
  • The cited provision does not state whether the permit ties the holder to one employer, occupation or sector.
  • chars 2380-3121
    Sous réserve des traités et accords internationaux auxquels le Burkina Faso est partie et relatifs à la libre circulation des personnes ou à la réciprocité, tout employeur de travailleur non national non-résident doit obtenir une autorisation préalable du service public d'emploi. Préalablement à son engagement dans une entreprise établie au Burkina Faso, tout travailleur non national non-résident doit être titulaire d'un permis de travail délivré par la direction centrale en charge du travail. Toutefois, cette obligation ne s'impose pas aux ressortissants d'un Etat avec lequel le Burkina Faso a conclu un traité ou une convention tel que visé à l'alinéa 1 ci-dessus ainsi qu'aux personnes ayant le statut de réfugiés et les apatrides.

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

The official sources do not state how long the work permit or the residence permit is granted for, or how either is renewed. Law No. 001-2024/ALT of 22 February 2024 requires a foreigner who wishes to settle in Burkina Faso or stay for more than ninety days to hold a residence permit (permis de séjour), and leaves the conditions for issuing residence permits to regulations. Under the same law, a foreigner whose residence permit has been refused or not renewed is escorted to the border. The official sources do not state a longer-term or permanent residence direction for this route.

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  • The official source does not state the complete answer to this question for this route.

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

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