Micronesia

Foreign investor permit and entry. A US investor implementing an FSM business needs foreign investment permission and a linked investor entry permit.

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Foreign investor permit and entry

Investor entry for a specified duration linked to the approved business permission.

Who qualifies

Apply for the FSM Foreign Investment Permit under Title 32 using the official prescribed form and a local agent for service of process.
Federated States of Micronesia Supreme Court: Foreign Investment Act
Title 50 links the foreign-investor entry permit to the business permit and permits renewal when the business permit is renewed or extended.
Federated States of Micronesia Supreme Court: FSM Code title 50, chapter 1

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

It could fit.

A US investor implementing an FSM business needs foreign investment permission and a linked investor entry permit.

Every option that fits your family

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Time: The issuing authority decides the application after the complete sponsored file and prerequisite approvals are lodged.
Cost: Government charges are assessed under the issuing authority’s schedule; sponsor, translation and document costs are separate.
The hard part: Investment permit approval under national and any state-level business restrictions.

Citizens by 2033.

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

2027
First residence permit
1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.
2032
Apply for citizenship
With a language test.
2033
Citizenship

Language: Pass an examination in at least one indigenous FSM language.
Time away: Five years of lawful residence immediately before filing, plus being the child or spouse of an FSM citizen or already an FSM national; Congress recommends and the President decides.
Two passports: Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.

The entry term follows the foreign-investment permission; residence alone is insufficient without the statutory citizen-family or FSM-national tie.
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

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.

Start today.

File the FSM Foreign Investment Application with the Department of Resources before investor-entry filing.Open rd.gov.fm ↗
Gather these documents.
- Proof of how you will support yourselves
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health cover for the move

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