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Long-Stay Immigrant Visa - Scientific Research

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

The immigrant (long-stay) route is for foreigners who wish to stay in Madagascar for more than 90 days to carry out scientific research.

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Limits of the record
  • The sources do not define the researcher profile, qualifications or type of research that qualifies.
  • https://www.mdg-london.org/visas
    Immigrant visas are issued to potential immigrants desiring to stay in Madagascar for a period of more than 90 days for Investment, Business, Work, Study, Volunteering, Scientific research, Family gathering, Retirement, Mission.

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

Instead of an employer, the scientific category requires a research authorisation issued by the Ministry of Scientific Research, the Ministry of Higher Education or the Ministry of the Environment; the Interior Ministry asks for the original research attestation issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

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Limits of the record
  • The sources neither require nor exclude a host institution or employer in Madagascar.

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

For the scientific-researcher purpose, the distinctive document is a research authorisation issued by the Ministry of Scientific Research, the Ministry of Higher Education or the Ministry of the Environment.

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  • Official source is a document checklist; no qualification, experience, salary or occupation threshold is stated.

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
  • No fee for this non-immigrant category has been captured; the 140,000 Ariary fee captured elsewhere is stated to apply to the transformable one-month immigrant visa, not this category.

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

The applicant first obtains a one-month visa, extendable and transformable to a long-term visa, at a Malagasy embassy; in Madagascar the holder then applies for a long-term visa and a resident card at the Ministry of the Interior. Renewal of an immigrant visa must be filed three months before the current visa expires, under the same conditions as the first visa. The official source does not state how long the long-term visa is granted for or any longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • The duration for which the long-term scientific visa is granted is not stated.
  • No longer-term residence direction is stated for this category.

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