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Long-Stay NGO, Association or Volunteer Visa

MadagascarCulture, faith and volunteering

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

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What exact activity, role or purpose qualifies?

The official lists cover religious missionaries, lay missionaries (teachers, doctors, engineers) who need a volunteer-employment authorisation from the Ministry in charge of Labour, members of a foreign NGO, and members of local associations and NGOs.

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Limits of the record
  • The sources do not define what NGO or association activity qualifies.
  • The sources do not establish that every volunteer activity qualifies beyond the lay-missionary examples.

What organisation, institution, religious body, charity, teacher or host must support the activity?

For the missionary subtype, support must come from a congregation legally established in Madagascar. The congregation supplies accommodation and maintenance evidence, and the religious association must have evidence of legal existence. The official source does not state the host required for non-religious volunteers or for NGO, association or cultural activity.

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Limits of the record
  • The required host for a non-religious volunteer is not specified.
  • No host rule was found for generic NGO, association, or cultural activity.

What proves the placement, role, affiliation, experience or cultural/religious/voluntary activity?

For the missionary subtype, affiliation is proved by an attestation of membership. The congregation must provide accommodation and support evidence, and the religious association must have proof of legal existence. A lay missionary performing volunteer work must provide evidence that a volunteer-employment authorisation application was filed. The official source does not state an equivalent proof list for NGO, association or cultural activity.

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Limits of the record
  • No equivalent proof list was found for a generic NGO, association, or cultural subtype.
  • The source does not define required experience or qualifications.

Can the person receive salary, pocket money, accommodation, meals or reimbursement? Can they undertake other work?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm whether pay, pocket money, accommodation or other work is allowed.

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Limits of the record
  • The checked official sources do not establish salary, pocket-money, reimbursement, accommodation, meal or secondary-work rules for this route.

How long can they stay, can they change host/activity, can family accompany, and can the status be extended?

Madagascar's immigrant-visa process provides a 72-hour entry visa leading to a one-month visa transformable and extendable into long stay. The 2026 finance law places missions exceeding three months within the transformable long-stay category. The sources do not specify the final duration, change of host or activity, accompanying family, or subtype-specific extension conditions.

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Limits of the record
  • Final long-stay duration is not specified.
  • Host or activity-change rules are not specified.
  • Accompanying-family rules are not specified.
  • Subtype-specific renewal conditions are not specified.
  • Official document passage
    Le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères est habilité à délivrer des Accords d’embarquement ou visas d’entrée de 72 heures aux fins d’obtention d’un visa d’un mois transformable et prorogeable en long séjour aux ressortissants de pays étrangers désirant s’installer à Madagascar.
  • Official document passage
    les missions supérieures à 03 mois

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

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