Timor-Leste

Business Visa Class II (VNG2). A foreign owner or company administrator settling in Timor-Leste for substantial business activity can apply for the Class II business visa.

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Business Visa Class II (VNG2)

An initial six-month multiple-entry business stay; extensions may be granted for two-year periods if the business and physical-presence conditions continue.

Who qualifies

The applicant must be a member or administrator of a Timor-Leste commercial company registered or being registered, and intend to spend more than 183 days a year there.
Timor-Leste Migration Service: Business Visa Class II requirements
Submit travel and support documents, accommodation, professional qualifications, certified commercial registration, authorization for economic activity, company tax certificate, medical certificate and a recent criminal record.
Timor-Leste Migration Service: Business Visa Class II requirements

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

It could fit.

A foreign owner or company administrator settling in Timor-Leste for substantial business activity can apply for the Class II business visa.

Every option that fits your family

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Time: The Migration Service decides after the company registration, business authorization, tax certificate and applicant records form a complete Class II file.
Cost: US$150 for issuance and US$150 for an extension under the Migration Service schedule.
The hard part: Genuine commercial registration, tax compliance and the annual physical-presence requirement.

Citizens by 2038.

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

2027
First residence permit
0.5 years, renewable for 2 years at a time.
2037
Apply for citizenship
With a language test and a civics test.
2038
Citizenship

Language: Speak Tetum or Portuguese.
Civics: Know Timor-Leste history and culture and meet the civic standards for integration.
Time away: Ten years of usual and regular residence after 20 May 2002; the spouse option requires two years’ residence and a marriage longer than five years.
Two passports: Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

The six-month grant and two-year extensions can build the ten years while the holder actually lives in Timor-Leste for the required business presence.
How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.

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.

Register or document the Timor-Leste company and assemble its business and tax records for the Class II application.Open migracao.gov.tl ↗
Gather these documents.
- The business plan, and the endorsement or approval it needs
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health cover for the move
- A lease or other proof of where you’ll live in Timor-Leste

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 Dili and a member or administrator of an existing registered authorised company, spending more than 183 days annually: six-month Class II business visa and recurring extensions up to two years with company-operation and corporate, labour and tax compliance evidence; no prospecting-only, unregistered company or family applications.

16 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 5 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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