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Tanzania

Class B-1 employee residence permit. A specific Tanzanian employer must offer a job matching the applicant’s qualifications and experience; the residence filing includes the Labour Commissioner’s work permit, contract, employer cover letter, CV, certified qualifications, job description, company registration and licence, and passport valid at least six months.

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Class B-1 employee residence permit

Class B residence tied to the specified employer and employment; the approved permit sets its duration and dependants apply separately.

Who qualifies

  • A specific Tanzanian employer must offer a job matching the applicant’s qualifications and experience; the residence filing includes the Labour Commissioner’s work permit, contract, employer cover letter, CV, certified qualifications, job description, company registration and licence, and passport valid at least six months.
    Tanzania immigration, residence permit guidelines

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
Processing runs from submission of the complete file to the issuing authority’s decision.
Cost
Published Class B-1 residence fee for a non-EAC applicant: US$2,000; the Labour work-permit charge is separate.
The hard part
Obtaining the Labour work permit and Class B residence approval before arrival.
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Citizens by 2036.

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. 2035
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test.

  3. 2036
    Citizenship
Language
Adequate Kiswahili or English.
Time away
The whole 12 months immediately before applying, plus at least seven years in total during the ten years before that; the applicant must intend to remain.
Two passports
Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.
  • Class B residence is tied to the employer and generally issued up to two years; lawful renewed years count toward 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 class b-1 employee residence permit procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open eservices.immigration.go.tz ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The signed job offer, salary, and recognized qualifications
    • 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 starting non-regulated private-company employment on Tanzania Mainland with a local succession plan: integrated Class C work and B-1 residence application, separate residence payment, combined smart card, NIDA identity and three same-job renewals ending within eight years; no government projects, prescribed professions, Zanzibar or dependants.

13 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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