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Professional Visa for Corporate Officer

MadagascarStarting a business

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

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What must actually exist or be demonstrated: business plan, company, innovation, clients, contracts, economic activity, job creation or other substance?

Under Investment Law No. 2023-002 (Article 12), the substance required is holding a genuine corporate mandate in a Madagascar-registered company (as gerant, CEO/Managing Director, Deputy Managing Director, General Administrator, Chairman of the Board, Chairman-and-CEO, or board member) without holding associate or shareholder status. The law does not set out any additional business-plan, client, contract or job-creation requirement for this visa category.

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  • The law does not state whether any additional substance evidence (e.g. the company's business activity or size) is assessed in practice beyond the corporate-mandate requirement itself.
  • Loi n2023-002 sur les investissements a Madagascar (CNLEGIS), Chapitre IV
    Un « Visa Professionnel » est octroyé à tout étranger exerçant au sein d’une société locale un mandat social de gérant, de Directeur Général, de Directeur Général Adjoint, d’Administrateur Général, de Président du Conseil d'Administration, de Président Directeur Général ou membre du Conseil d’Administration sans qu’il ait la qualité d’associé ou d’actionnaire.

What investment, capital, income, revenue, funding or viability evidence is central to this pathway?

Investment Law No. 2023-002 defines this Professional Visa (Article 12) specifically as NOT requiring associate or shareholder status; it is a corporate-role visa, not a capital-based one. The law does not establish an investment amount, capital, income or viability threshold for this category; a separate 'Investisseur' visa (Article 11) exists instead for shareholder-based investment.

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Limits of the record
  • No money/viability threshold is stated because the category is defined by corporate role rather than capital contribution; whether EDBM applies any informal viability check in practice is not established by this source.
  • Loi n2023-002 sur les investissements a Madagascar (CNLEGIS), Chapitre IV
    Un « Visa Professionnel » est octroyé à tout étranger exerçant au sein d’une société locale un mandat social de gérant, de Directeur Général, de Directeur Général Adjoint, d’Administrateur Général, de Président du Conseil d'Administration, de Président Directeur Général ou membre du Conseil d’Administration sans qu’il ait la qualité d’associé ou d’actionnaire.

What business/self-employed activity may the holder conduct? Are there important restrictions? What is the family position where clearly stated?

Under Article 15 of Investment Law No. 2023-002, visas granted under the categories in Articles 11-14, including this Professional Visa, entitle their holders to reside and legally work anywhere in Malagasy territory. Under Article 14, the spouse and dependent children of the holder qualify for a 'Family Regroupment Visa' whose duration cannot exceed the principal holder's own visa.

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Limits of the record
  • The law does not state whether the holder's activity is restricted to the specific corporate mandate held, or whether other paid activity outside that mandate is permitted.

What approval/application sequence applies, how long is the status granted, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction is officially stated?

The Professional Visa (Article 12) is granted for a period not exceeding the corporate mandate's term, counts as a residence permit (titre de sejour), and is renewable up to the mandate's limit. Under Article 15, the visa is granted under the authority of the Ministry in charge of the Interior and delivered at EDBM level; a renewal request must be filed within three months before the visa's expiry date, under conditions set by regulation. The official source does not state a longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • The detailed renewal, retention and withdrawal procedures ('modalites') are left to separate regulations not captured in this extraction.

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

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