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Five-Year Work Permit - Long-Term Resident

BurundiLong-term residence

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What exact status does accumulated residence lead to?

A work permit, not a residence status: without prejudice to the durations set for each category of work permit by the harmonised classification of the East African Community states, the head of the immigration services issues a work permit within the 30 days following the application.

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Limits of the record
  • The chapeau names the instrument and the issuing authority but not the five-year category itself, which is cited in r2.
  • Ordonnance conjointe n°570/530/921 regulates employment only; it attaches no residence permit, residence card or settlement right to the five-year work permit.
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    Article 14 à l’autorité compétente dans 15 jours ouvrables à Sans préjudice aux durées indiquées pour chaque partir de la date de signature du contrat. catégorie de permis de travail par la classification Article 11 harmonisée des permis de travail des Etats de la Un travailleur étranger ou un citoyen d’un Etat Communauté Est Africaine, le responsable des membre de la Communauté Est Africaine qui trouve services d’immigration délivre dans les 30 jours qui un emploi pour une période n’excédant pas 90 jours suivent la demande, un permis de travail : demande une autorisation spéciale de travail.

What qualifying residence period is required and when does the period begin?

At least 20 years of residence in Burundi: the five-year work permit is issued to foreigners and to citizens of East African Community member states 'résidant au Burundi depuis au moins 20 ans'. The same five-year category also covers refugees and stateless persons recognised as such by the competent services, for whom no residence period is required.

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  • Article 14 does not say when the 20-year period starts to run, nor how residence in Burundi is to be evidenced.
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    -D’une durée de cinq ans pour les réfugiés et membre de la Communauté Est Africaine, qui trouve apatrides reconnus comme tels par les services un emploi pour une période de plus de 90 jours, peut compétents en la matière et les étrangers et les demander une autorisation spéciale avant d’acquérir citoyens des Etats membres de la Communauté Est le permis de travail. Africaine résidant au Burundi depuis au moins 20 Article 13 ans ;

Which types of residence count fully, partially or not at all where the official rules specify this?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm which types of residence count towards the qualifying period.

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Limits of the record
  • Article 14 says only 'résidant au Burundi depuis au moins 20 ans' and does not distinguish types of residence that count fully, partially or not at all. Article 13 splits applicants into 'résident' and 'non résident' purely for the documents to be produced and defines neither term. Searched Arts 1-3, 9-15, 21-25 and 33-34 of Ordonnance conjointe n°570/530/921.

What absence/continuity rules affect accumulation of the qualifying residence period?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the absence and continuity rules for the qualifying period.

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Limits of the record
  • No absence, continuity or interruption rule appears in any article of Ordonnance conjointe n°570/530/921 printed in this capture (Arts 1-25 and 27-37; Article 26 does not appear in the printed text, which runs straight from the Chapitre IV heading to Article 27). Article 14 fixes the 20-year threshold with no tolerance for time spent abroad; Arts 21, 24 and 25 deal with departure after a refusal or an expulsion, not with absences during accumulation.

What other major conditions apply, how is the status obtained, and what renewal, document-validity, retention or loss rules matter?

The competent authority may cancel the work permit or the special work authorisation where the foreign worker or the citizen of an East African Community member state (a) is expelled or deported from Burundian territory, or (b) ceases or changes the employment for which the work permit or the special authorisation was granted.

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Limits of the record
  • The third cancellation ground (obtaining the permit by fraud) and the 30-day deadline to regularise or leave are printed in the facing column of the same page and fall outside this citation.
  • This citation says nothing about renewal or document validity: renewal one month before expiry is Art 15, and the cap on validity is the last paragraph of Art 14.
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    Article 22 d’immigration, au plus tard au 31 janvier de l’année L’autorité compétente peut annuler le permis de suivante, un rapport annuel des travailleurs étrangers travail ou l’autorisation spéciale si le travailleur ou des citoyens des Etats membres de la étranger ou citoyen d’un Etat membre de la Communauté Est Africaine ayant quitté son Communauté Est Africaine : établissement. a) Est expulsé ou déporté du territoire burundais ; Article 28 b) Cesse ou change l’emploi pour lequel le permis de Lorsque le détenteur d’un permis de travail cesse travail ou l’autorisation spéciale a été donné ;

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

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