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Profit-making business establishment visa. A foreign applicant with at least six months in Burundi seeking establishment for profit-making activity supplies an approved request to the Commissioner General of Migration, passport copy, current visa, photo, tax identification number and commercial register. Other status-specific documents may be required.

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Profit-making business establishment visa

A two-year establishment visa if approved; any trade licence, work approval and separate secure residence card are separate approvals.

Who qualifies

  • A foreign applicant with at least six months in Burundi seeking establishment for profit-making activity supplies an approved request to the Commissioner General of Migration, passport copy, current visa, photo, tax identification number and commercial register. Other status-specific documents may be required.
    Burundi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, establishment visa

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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It could fit.

A foreign applicant with at least six months in Burundi seeking establishment for profit-making activity supplies an approved request to the Commissioner General of Migration, passport copy, current visa, photo, tax identification number and commercial register. Other status-specific documents may be required.

Every option that fits your family

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Time
Processing runs from submission of the complete file to the issuing authority’s decision.
Cost
The Ministry lists US$500 for the establishment visa.
The hard part
Registering the activity and maintaining lawful stay before the establishment filing.
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Citizens by 2038.

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

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    2 years, renewable for 2 years at a time.

  2. 2037
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test.

  3. 2038
    Citizenship
Language
Understanding of Kirundi as evidence of attachment and assimilation.
Time away
Permanent residence in Burundi for at least ten years, together with attachment to Burundi and either property or a profession there.
Two passports
Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.
  • The two-year business establishment visa can build the ten-year period while the registered activity and lawful residence continue.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
  • This country asks new citizens to give up their other citizenship.
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. Gather business registration and activity documents, then begin the published permit application.Open mae.gov.bi ↗
  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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