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Private-sector employee stay card. A foreign private-sector employee filing with DGDI needs a legalized employment attestation, stay-card form, employer identity copy, current trade-licence and payment evidence, plus legalized housing attestation, host identity copy and recent utility bill.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Private-sector employee stay card

A two-year stay card if approved; the form also asks for employment authorization or contract and employment attestation.

Who qualifies

  • A foreign private-sector employee filing with DGDI needs a legalized employment attestation, stay-card form, employer identity copy, current trade-licence and payment evidence, 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.

1

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
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
Securing employer and housing evidence and any required employment authorization.
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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.
  • The two-year stay card is renewable and can build the five consecutive resident years, provided the employee keeps a real home and work 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. Secure the employer’s offer and supporting documents, then begin the published work-permit process.Open dgdi.ga ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The signed job offer, salary, and recognized qualifications
    • 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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