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Vacant-Occupation Professional Visa, Work Authorisation and Stay Card

DjiboutiWork

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

It is for foreigners taking salaried employment in Djibouti: no one may, directly or through an intermediary, hire, keep or employ a foreigner who lacks a residence title and a work authorisation for salaried activity.

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  • No occupation list or definition of which vacancies qualify is given beyond the hiring-priority test (cited in r2/r3).

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

The employer must prove that no Djiboutian candidate matching the job profile could be found; only then may the employer recruit a foreign national, who must be in a regular (lawful) situation.

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  • Loi 40/AN/19, Art.29 (employer's burden of proof)
    lorsque l’employeur fournit la preuve qu’il n’a pas trouvé un Djiboutien correspondant au profil de l’emploi proposé, et seulement dans ce cas, il peut recruter un étranger en situation régulière

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

This pathway is for filling a vacant occupation that could not be filled by a Djiboutian national: hiring priority is legally reserved for Djiboutian citizens, and the employer must prove that no Djiboutian candidate matching the job profile could be found before recruiting a foreign national in a regular situation.

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  • Loi 40/AN/19, Art.29
    La priorité d’embauche est réservée aux citoyens Djiboutiens.
  • Loi 40/AN/19, Art.29
    lorsque l’employeur fournit la preuve qu’il n’a pas trouvé un Djiboutien correspondant au profil de l’emploi proposé, et seulement dans ce cas, il peut recruter un étranger en situation régulière

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

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the work allowed, any tie to employer or sector and family accompaniment.

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Limits of the record
  • Searched for what work the permission allows, whether it ties the holder to an employer/occupation/sector, and family accompaniment; none stated. Art.30 (one month to regularise stay after arrival) is a residence formality, not a work right.

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

As a residence card under this law, validity cannot exceed 1 year and cannot exceed the validity of the holder's travel documents; the holder must leave Djibouti before expiry unless the card is renewed. The official source does not state any longer-term residence direction.

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  • Loi 40/AN/19, Art.21 (residence card validity)
    La durée de validité de la carte de séjour ne peut être supérieure à 1 an et ne peut dépasser la validité des documents de voyage. L’étranger doit quitter la République de Djibouti avant l’expiration de la durée de validité de sa carte à moins qu’il n’en obtienne le renouvellement.

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

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