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Senegal

Student foreign identity card. For the foreign identity-card application, provide current school or university enrolment and embassy scholarship or support confirmation, plus a valid passport, recent origin-country police record, birth and medical records and repatriation guarantee.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Student foreign identity card

If approved, a foreign identity card documenting the student. The student card does not grant permission to work.

Who qualifies

  • For the foreign identity-card application, provide current school or university enrolment and embassy scholarship or support confirmation, plus a valid passport, recent origin-country police record, birth and medical records and repatriation guarantee.
    Senegal Interior Ministry, foreign identity card

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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It could fit.

Student foreign identity card needs admission to a qualifying course; the course and your passport then decide it.

What would settle itYour admission and the course’s eligibility under the destination’s rules.

Every option that fits your family

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Time
Processing runs from submission of a complete file to the issuing authority’s decision.
Cost
The published fiscal stamp is CFA 15,000 plus a nationality-dependent repatriation guarantee.
The hard part
Assembling the option-specific evidence and obtaining the issuing authority’s approval.
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Citizens by 2038.

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. 2037
    Apply for citizenship
  3. 2038
    Citizenship
Time away
Habitual residence means a settled home in Senegal without an intention to establish later in another state; ten years are required before filing.
Two passports
Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.
  • The foreigner card documents lawful student residence; the ten-year nationality rule asks for a settled habitual home, so nominal enrolment without living in Senegal is insufficient.
  • 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. Open the official student foreign identity card procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open interieur.gouv.sn ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The degree or admission letter, and proof of funds
    • 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.

Options open to you today →
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ISSUED TO

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