Membership
AFMGP is a small private network. There is one membership, held by the practitioners the association exists for, alongside a limited affiliate category for the international-services professionals who support them. Both are subject to vetting.
For multinational practitioners
By vetting · subject to need and space
Admission
Membership requires documentation of citizenship or settled residence in more than one country. That requirement is the point of the network: it is what makes the directory, the channels, and the shared knowledge worth belonging to, because everyone in the room is in the same uncommon situation. Documentation is reviewed in confidence and is not retained beyond what is needed to confirm eligibility.
It follows that we are not, and will never be, a large body. Geospatial practitioners are a small profession; those who also hold citizenship or settled residence in more than one country are a small fraction of that. The intersection is narrow by nature — which is rather the point. This is a network built on everyone genuinely sharing the same uncommon circumstance, not on numbers.
Professional affiliates are admitted by a separate vetting process and only where the network has room and a real need for their specialty. The affiliate category exists to serve members — not as a marketing channel — and is kept deliberately small for that reason.
What it costs
Membership carries no fee. What sustains the network isn't money but participation — documented experience, answers in the channels, the help one member gives another making the same crossing they once made. In place of dues, members contribute. That's the price of belonging, and the only one.
Contributions need not be narrow. They may be geospatial — a note on a mapping agency, a coordinate-system pitfall, a tool that saved a project — or about multinational life: a relocation, a credential recognition, the reality of working across two countries. What matters is that you take part and add something of value.
This is why membership is both free and verified. Because no one buys their way in, the network's value rests on members genuinely belonging and taking part. We confirm each member is who they say they are and meets the shared circumstance — and we expect them to stay active. Members who go quiet for a long stretch may be removed, so the room stays what it's meant to be: people who are present, eligible, and willing to help one another.
