POSTERN

Togo

Student or intern residence card. Provide enrolment at an approved institution or an internship letter from a registered host, plus standard passport, recent police and medical records and sufficient-resource evidence.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Student or intern residence card

If approved, a one-year temporary or three-year ordinary student card. The card authorizes study or the documented internship, not general employment.

Who qualifies

  • Provide enrolment at an approved institution or an internship letter from a registered host, plus standard passport, recent police and medical records and sufficient-resource evidence.
    Togo public service, residence card

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

1

It could fit.

Student or intern residence 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.

2

What it takes.

Time
DGDN lists 30–45 days for residence-card processing after the application is complete.
Cost
Student card fees are CFA 100,000 for one year or CFA 250,000 for three years.
The hard part
Assembling the option-specific evidence and obtaining the issuing authority’s approval.
3

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.
  • Student cards are issued for one or three years and the nationality law does not exclude lawful student residence from its five habitual years.
  • 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
4

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.

5

Start today.

  1. Open the official student or intern residence card procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open service-public.gouv.tg ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The degree or admission letter, and proof of funds
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
6

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 →
7
ISSUED TO

YOUR FAMILY

Cover