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Cameroon

Salaried work and long-stay residence. A foreign employee needs a long-stay entry visa, evidence of support and repatriation guarantee, a medical certificate accepted and endorsed by the Cameroonian consulate, and an employment contract endorsed by the labour ministry. An admitted adult must apply for a stay card within three months.

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Salaried work and long-stay residence

Entry and stay for approved salaried work; the stay card is a separate step after admission.

Who qualifies

  • A foreign employee needs a long-stay entry visa, evidence of support and repatriation guarantee, a medical certificate accepted and endorsed by the Cameroonian consulate, and an employment contract endorsed by the labour ministry. An admitted adult must apply for a stay card within three months.
    Cameroon Prime Minister, foreign-national entry and stay law, arts. 11, 13 and 17
  • The DGSN’s 2025 identity-card process uses advance enrolment, online fee payment and a physical appointment for identity documents, including stay cards; the stay-card applicant then completes DGSN enrolment, payment and an in-person appointment.
    Cameroon DGSN, 2025 identity-title procedure

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Do you have a binding job offer in that country?

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
Budget for the application documents, certification, police or medical records and travel in addition to any charge collected at filing.
The hard part
Getting the labour-ministry endorsement and consular medical documentation before entry.
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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

    2 years, renewable for 2 years at a time.

  2. 2029
    Renew the permit

    Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 2 years.

  3. 2031
    Renew the permit

    Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 2 years.

  4. 2032
    Apply for citizenship
  5. 2033
    Citizenship
Time away
Five consecutive years of habitual residence through the filing date, with the applicant’s main interests still based in Cameroon when the decree is signed.
Two passports
Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.
  • The long-stay visa leads to the renewable stay card; six consecutive years can open the resident card and five habitual years already open naturalisation.
  • 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. Secure the employer’s offer and supporting documents, then begin the published work-permit process.Open spm.gov.cm ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The signed job offer, salary, and recognized qualifications
    • 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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