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Non-Transformable Short-Stay Visa

MadagascarShort stays and visits

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm whether a visa, electronic authorisation or visa on arrival is normally required.

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  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (NAO_SUSTENTA: Now answers R1 (prior CAIXA_ERRADA fixed), but the citation only says non-immigrant visas are issued on arrival or at the Embassy; it never states that a visa is needed.)

What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the visit purposes this route covers.

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  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (NAO_SUSTENTA: Answers R2 (prior CAIXA_ERRADA fixed) and the purposes are cited, but it attributes C2 to 'the French embassy'; the source is the Embassy of Madagascar in France (ambamad-paris.diplomatie.gov.mg).)

What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

Stay of up to 90 days; entry-and-stay visas are issued with one to three entries at most. Non-immigrant visas of less than three months can be extended at the police station for a cumulative total not exceeding three months.

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  • No rolling-period rule or separate visa-validity period is stated.
  • https://ambamad-paris.diplomatie.gov.mg/index.php/visa/visas-d-entree-et-de-sejour-a-madagascar
    1- VISA COURT SEJOUR OU NON-IMMIGRANT NON TRANSFORMABLE (Durée séjour inférieur ou égale à quatre-vingt dix (90) jours) Les visas d’entrée et de séjour avec une à trois entrées au maximum sont délivrés soit par les Représentations diplomatiques ou consulaires Malagasy, soit par le Commissariat de Police chargé de l’immigration/émigration à l’aéroport ou au port de débarquement, moyennant le paiement du droit correspondant. Les visas de séjour non immigrants inférieurs à trois mois sont prorogeables auprès du Commissariat de police pour une durée totale cumulée n’excédant pas trois mois.

What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

For a tourism short-stay visa at the Embassy in Paris: an original passport valid for more than 6 months after the return date with at least two blank pages, and a copy of a return air ticket or a travel-agency booking with flight details. A multiple-entry short-stay visa must be justified by return air tickets on different dates. The official source does not state funds, accommodation or insurance evidence.

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Limits of the record
  • Checklist of the Embassy in Paris (tourism); evidence checked at the border is not stated.
  • No funds, accommodation or insurance evidence is stated.

Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

Extension of a non-immigrant, non-transformable short-stay visa is processed at the Commissariat de Police (police station), up to a cumulative total of three (3) months. The official source does not state where the initial short-stay visa is obtained.

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  • The process for obtaining the initial short-stay visa itself (before any extension) is not established by this source.
  • EDBM Visa transformable notice (Aout 2025), Notes et references
    Les Visas non-immigrants (PAF, tourisme, conférence, séminaire, évènements familiaux, manifestations sportives, culturelles ou religieuses, visite médicale, recherche scientifique, plaisancier, tournage film, croisière, économique- hommes d’affaires) ne sont pas transformables en long séjour. En revanche, ils sont prorogeables auprès du Commissariat de Police pour une durée totale cumulée n’excédant pas trois (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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