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Rwanda

G2 trade permit for nationals outside EAC and CEPGL. A trader from outside the EAC and CEPGL, including a US citizen, needs full business registration, CV, police clearance from the previous country of residence, application letter and travel document valid at least six months.

Free, with the law behind every answer

G2 trade permit for nationals outside EAC and CEPGL

Residence permit for trade in goods or services; the official G2 page does not state a reliable initial validity period.

Who qualifies

  • A trader from outside the EAC and CEPGL, including a US citizen, needs full business registration, CV, police clearance from the previous country of residence, application letter and travel document valid at least six months.
    Rwanda immigration, business entrepreneur permits

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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It could fit.

A trader from outside the EAC and CEPGL, including a US citizen, needs full business registration, CV, police clearance from the previous country of residence, application letter and travel document valid at least six months.

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
Published application fee: RWF 150,000.
The hard part
Registering the trade business and establishing its permitted activity.
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Citizens by 2043.

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. 2042
    Apply for citizenship

    With a civics test.

  3. 2043
    Citizenship
Civics
Knowledge of and respect for Rwandan culture and national values, assessed in the acquisition process.
Time away
At least fifteen consecutive years of lawful residence while physically living in Rwanda, proved with residence permits.
Two passports
Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.
  • Maintained trader residence can build the fifteen consecutive physical-residence years; the official page leaves each approved term to the permit decision.
  • 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 g2 trade permit for nationals outside eac and cepgl procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open migration.gov.rw ↗
  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 run this for you.

$900for your first year as a founding member. Then $399 a year, automatically.One membership, the whole family. Bank accounts and help putting your plan into action are included.

Postern runs it for one US citizen aged 19 or older lawfully in Kigali with a fully registered business trading goods or services under G2: DGIE field visit, permit application, personal pickup, foreigner ID, one ordinary renewal and then G3-2 recurring renewals after two temporary trader permits; business formation and dependants are separate.

16 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 4 of them: send what we ask for, sign, and show up. We run the rest, and keep every permit renewed on time. Opening your bank accounts there is included, whether you move now or keep the plan ready. Government fees, record fees and other costs you approve are extra.

Run it for my family →
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