Membership
AFMGP is a 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.
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. The association is a mutual-support network, and what sustains it is not money but participation — the documented experience, the answers in the channels, the help one member gives another making the same crossing they once made. In place of dues, members are expected to contribute. That contribution is the price of belonging, and it is the only one.
Contributions need not be narrow. They may be geospatial — a note on a national mapping agency, a coordinate-system pitfall, a tool that saved a project — or they may be about multinational life: navigating a relocation, a credential recognition, the texture of working across two countries. They may be both at once, which is the heart of what we do, or only tangentially related — anything that genuinely helps a fellow member live and work across borders. What matters is that you take part and add something of value, not which corner of the members' world it falls in.
This is why membership is both free and verified. Because no one buys their way in, the network's value rests entirely on its members genuinely belonging and genuinely taking part. We verify that each member is who they say they are and meets the shared circumstance the network is built around — and we expect them to remain active in it. Members who do not participate over an extended period may be removed, so that membership continues to mean what it is supposed to mean: a room of people who are present, eligible, and willing to support one another.
