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Togo

Self-employed foreign resident card. Provide a business-creation card and company and personal tax clearances plus social clearance, alongside standard passport, police, medical and sufficient-resource documents; apply online and attend DGDN biometrics.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Self-employed foreign resident card

If approved, a one-year temporary, three-year ordinary or five-year privileged residence card according to the approved class.

Who qualifies

  • Provide a business-creation card and company and personal tax clearances plus social clearance, alongside standard passport, police, medical and sufficient-resource documents; apply online and attend DGDN biometrics.
    Togo public service, residence card

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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It could fit.

Provide a business-creation card and company and personal tax clearances plus social clearance, alongside standard passport, police, medical and sufficient-resource documents; apply online and attend DGDN biometrics.

Every option that fits your family

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Time
DGDN lists 30–45 days for residence-card processing after the application is complete.
Cost
Card fees are CFA 200,000 for one year, CFA 500,000 for three years or CFA 800,000 for five years.
The hard part
Assembling the option-specific evidence and obtaining the issuing authority’s approval.
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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

    1 year, renewable for 3 years at a time.

  2. 2032
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test.

  3. 2033
    Citizenship
Language
Sufficient knowledge of a Togolese language; no level or named test is set.
Time away
Habitual residence for the five years before filing and the centre of the applicant’s main interests in Togo when the decree is signed.
Two passports
Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.
  • Renewed temporary or ordinary cards preserve lawful residence, but naturalisation also requires a Togolese language and renunciation of the old nationality.
  • 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 self-employed foreign resident card procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open service-public.gouv.tg ↗
  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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ISSUED TO

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