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Entrepreneur work permit. A foreign entrepreneur establishing a Barbados business can apply through the long-term work-permit process with investment and company documents.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Entrepreneur work permit

If approved, a long-term work permit for the business activity, for up to three years.

Who qualifies

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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It could fit.

A foreign entrepreneur establishing a Barbados business can apply through the long-term work-permit process with investment and company documents.

Every option that fits your family

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Time
The Immigration Department does not publish a processing period on the work-permit page.
Cost
BDS$300 application fee plus a category- and duration-dependent final fee; investment amount is not fixed on this page.
The hard part
Establishing the business and documenting compliant investment funds and licences.
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Citizens by 2034.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    3 years, renewable for 3 years at a time.

  2. 2033
    Apply for citizenship
  3. 2034
    Citizenship
Time away
The full 12 months immediately before applying must be spent in Barbados, plus at least five years in total during the seven years before that. The Minister may accept the final continuous year ending up to six months before filing in a special case.
Two passports
Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.
  • The entrepreneur uses the same up-to-three-year long-term work permit, and lawful residence counts while the business and permit remain valid.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
The law behind these dates
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Living there.

Time you must spend there
The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax
Where you become tax resident follows the days you spend there and where your home is. We map it for your family before you move.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

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Start today.

  1. Prepare the company registration, investment transfer and work-permit forms.Open immigration.gov.bb ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The business plan, and the endorsement or approval it needs
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
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Postern can’t run this for you yet.

The official application forms, submission and recovery specification are not complete. Postern cannot run this application yet.

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