POSTERN

Tanzania

Class C-2 retired-person residence permit. An applicant aged at least 55 must be retired in Tanzania or abroad, show assured income sufficient for self and dependants, and provide retirement-benefit evidence, retirement letter, occupancy evidence and a passport valid at least six months; no numeric income floor is stated.

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Class C-2 retired-person residence permit

Class C-2 residence as a retired person; the approved permit sets its duration and does not itself authorize employment.

Who qualifies

  • An applicant aged at least 55 must be retired in Tanzania or abroad, show assured income sufficient for self and dependants, and provide retirement-benefit evidence, retirement letter, occupancy evidence and a passport valid at least six months; no numeric income floor is stated.
    Tanzania immigration, residence permit guidelines

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

3 questions, from the program’s own rules.

How old are you?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Age
55 or older.
Time
Processing runs from submission of the complete file to the issuing authority’s decision.
Cost
Published non-EAC Class C-2 residence fee: US$500.
The hard part
Documenting retirement, assured support and accommodation.
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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.
  • The retired-person residence permit is issued for the approved term and can be renewed; actual residence counts toward the statutory seven-plus-one-year test.
  • 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 c-2 retired-person residence permit procedure and assemble the listed filing documents.Open eservices.immigration.go.tz ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • Proof of how you will support yourselves
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
    • A lease or other proof of where you’ll live in Tanzania
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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 55 or older retired outside Tanzania, with assured retirement income and a Mainland home: online C-2 application, payment, personal enrolment, actual permit collection, district NIDA registration and permit-linked renewals and identity revalidation; no employment, Zanzibar or dependant 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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