POSTERN

Togo

Salaried foreign resident card. Provide hiring authorization, employment contract, employer certificate and business-creation card, alongside the standard passport, recent police and medical records and sufficient-resource evidence; apply online then attend DGDN biometrics.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Salaried foreign resident card

If approved, a one-year temporary, three-year ordinary or five-year privileged residence card according to the approved class; work is limited by the hiring authorization.

Who qualifies

  • Provide hiring authorization, employment contract, employer certificate and business-creation card, alongside the standard passport, recent police and medical records and sufficient-resource evidence; apply online then attend DGDN biometrics.
    Togo public service, residence card

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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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
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.
  • The first temporary card is one year and later ordinary cards can run three years; five years of actual habitual residence opens naturalisation.
  • 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 salaried foreign resident card procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open service-public.gouv.tg ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The signed job offer, salary, and recognized qualifications
    • 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 adult US citizen already lawfully in Lomé with an existing NIU, personal tax clearance and complete employee papers, employed by a Togolese citizen with existing hiring authorization: the one-year temporary residence card, personal filing and collection and each same-category annual renewal; entry visas, tax clearance, business formation, hiring authorization and dependants are separate.

15 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.

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