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Foreign investor project and residence support. For a wholly foreign-owned ordinary project, obtain an investment visa and show at least US$200,000 capital, valid passport, business or bank background and the required company documents; the Commission lists a separate shareholder-residence support letter after investment documentation.

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Foreign investor project and residence support

Investment permit for the project; residence requires a separate immigration permit supported by the Commission, and work outside the approved activity requires its own authorization.

Who qualifies

  • For a wholly foreign-owned ordinary project, obtain an investment visa and show at least US$200,000 capital, valid passport, business or bank background and the required company documents; the Commission lists a separate shareholder-residence support letter after investment documentation.
    Ethiopian Investment Commission, service requirements

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Savings you could move or invest?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Investment
About $200,000.
Time
Processing runs from submission of the complete file to the issuing authority’s decision.
Cost
Published Commission fees: US$50 new investment permit and US$15 shareholder residence support letter; immigration charges are separate.
The hard part
Establishing that the business sector is open to a US investor and securing both investment and immigration approvals.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

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Citizens by 2032.

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

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.

  2. 2031
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test.

  3. 2032
    Citizenship
Language
Able to communicate in one language of Ethiopia’s nations and nationalities.
Time away
Established domicile in Ethiopia and lawful residence for the four years immediately before applying; the applicant must give up any other nationality and take the oath.
Two passports
Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.
  • The investment permit only supports a separate immigration residence permit; four lawful resident years on that paired status 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. Open the official foreign investor project and residence support procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open investinethiopia.gov.et ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • Proof of the funds to invest: about $200,000, and where they came from
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
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The official application forms, submission and recovery specification are not complete. Postern cannot run this application yet.

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