The ASEAN Agreement on the Movement of Natural Persons (AAMNP) streamlines and makes transparent the procedures for immigration applications for the temporary entry or entry of stay of natural persons. It covers business visitors, intra-corporate transferees, contractual service suppliers, and other categories of natural persons as may be specified by ASEAN Member States.
The ASEAN Agreement on the Movement of Natural Persons (AAMNP) is available to download here.
AAMNP Main Text
The Governments of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, Member States of the Association of South East Asian Nations (“ASEAN”), hereinafter collectively referred to as “Member States” or singularly as “Member State”;
NOTING the mandate of the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint adopted at the 13th ASEAN Summit held on 20 November 2007 in Singapore that free flow of skilled labour is one of the core elements of an ASEAN single market and production base; which allows for managed mobility or facilitated entry for the movement of natural persons engaged in trade in goods, trade in services and investment, according to the prevailing regulations of the receiving country;
RECALLING the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (“AFAS”) signed by ASEAN Economic Ministers (“AEM”) on 15 December 1995 in Bangkok, Thailand and its subsequent Implementing Protocols, which lays the foundation for elimination of restrictions to trade in services amongst Member States in all modes of supply, including mode 4 (Movement of Natural Persons);
DESIRING for an effective mechanism to further liberalise and facilitate movement of natural persons towards free flow of skilled labour in ASEAN through close cooperation among related ASEAN bodies in the areas, including and not limited 2 to trade in goods, trade in services, investment, immigration, and labour;
ALSO DESIRING to eliminate substantially all restrictions in the temporary cross-border movement of natural persons involved in the provision of trade in goods, trade in services and investment within the provisions of this Agreement;
HAVE AGREED as follows:
- AAMNP Schedule
