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Merchant resident card. A non-ECOWAS merchant must pre-enrol online and provide a valid passport or consular card, sponsorship form, an ONECI residence certificate less than six months old, payment receipt and commercial registration.

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Merchant resident card

A resident card for a registered merchant; business operation follows the commercial-registration rules.

Who qualifies

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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It could fit.

A non-ECOWAS merchant must pre-enrol online and provide a valid passport or consular card, sponsorship form, an ONECI residence certificate less than six months old, payment receipt and commercial registration.

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
ONECI lists FCFA 300,000 for other non-ECOWAS nationals, including US citizens; business registration charges are separate.
The hard part
Completing commercial registration and sponsorship before the card filing.
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Citizens by 2033.

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

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    5 years, renewable for 5 years at a time.

  2. 2032
    Apply for citizenship
  3. 2033
    Citizenship
Time away
Habitual residence for the five years before filing and continued habitual residence when the decree is signed.
Two passports
It depends on the rules at the time and on your home country.
  • Maintained resident-card status for the registered business can build the Nationality Code’s five habitual years.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
  • Whether you can keep your current citizenship depends on the rules at the time and your home country.
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 business or independent-activity documents, then begin the published residence process.Open oneci.ci ↗
  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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