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.

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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.

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.

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.

Citizens by 2033.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

2027
First residence permit
1 year, renewable for 3 years at a time.
2032
Apply for citizenship
With a language test.
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

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.

Start today.

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

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 student papers: 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.

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.

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