Correspondence on the 2027 call of ANID’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which for the first time restricts eligibility to Chilean citizens and foreign researchers who already hold permanent residency. We argue that the requirement is incompatible with the purpose of a postdoctoral program, and that Chile should select postdocs on scientific merit, as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation do.