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Independent-worker stay card. A foreign independent worker filing with DGDI needs commercial approval and proof that the required administrative formalities were completed, plus legalized housing attestation, host identity copy and recent utility bill.

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Independent-worker stay card

A two-year stay card for approved independent activity; sector permissions remain separate.

Who qualifies

  • A foreign independent worker filing with DGDI needs commercial approval and proof that the required administrative formalities were completed, plus legalized housing attestation, host identity copy and recent utility bill.
    Gabon DGDI, demande de carte de séjour form

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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It could fit.

A foreign independent worker filing with DGDI needs commercial approval and proof that the required administrative formalities were completed, plus legalized housing attestation, host identity copy and recent utility bill.

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 DGDI form lists FCFA 150,000 for the two-year card plus a country-specific repatriation deposit; the repatriation deposit varies by nationality.
The hard part
Obtaining commercial approval and documenting all activity registrations.
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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. 2032
    Apply for citizenship
  3. 2033
    Citizenship
Time away
Five consecutive years of residence by the filing date, an investment in Gabon, and residence maintained until the decree is signed.
Two passports
Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.
  • Renewed two-year independent-worker cards can carry the five-year clock, but naturalisation also requires investment in Gabon.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
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 dgdi.ga ↗
  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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