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Temporary Residence for a Company or Enterprise Founder

Bosnia and HerzegovinaStarting a business

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Is this for a founder, startup entrepreneur, self-employed person, freelancer, company owner or another business profile?

The statutory category is a founder of a company or enterprise with its registered seat in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is not described in the cited provision as a generic freelancer or remote-work route.

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  • The official 2023 amendment is captured, but no consolidated 2026 text was obtained; current legal effect and independent review remain pending.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

What must actually exist or be demonstrated: business plan, company, innovation, clients, contracts, economic activity, job creation or other substance?

The applicant must be a founder of a BiH-registered company. For each foreign national, including each founder, the company must employ at least five BiH citizens, pay each counted employee at least the average gross wage in BiH, and keep taxes current.

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  • The average gross wage amount is not stated in these route sources and has not been calculated.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

What investment, capital, income, revenue, funding or viability evidence is central to this pathway?

The SFA checklist asks for evidence of the type of business, court registration, company solvency and recent tax/indirect-tax clearance. It sets no investment amount in the consulted checklist; the statutory business test instead includes the BiH hiring, wage and tax conditions.

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  • The sources do not state a fixed capital or investment minimum.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

What business/self-employed activity may the holder conduct? Are there important restrictions? What is the family position where clearly stated?

The provision permits the qualifying founder to work without a work permit, subject to the company conditions. A person already staying on a visa, visa-free basis or temporary-residence approval needs a prior work-registration certificate; no such certificate is issued after temporary residence under Article 71(d) is granted. No sector list or route-specific family rule is stated in the consulted materials.

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  • The independent family position and any sector-specific restriction are not established by these sources.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

What approval/application sequence applies, how long is the status granted, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction is officially stated?

Temporary residence is generally granted for up to one year and may be extended on the same basis. A separate permanent-residence application may be possible after at least five years of continuous temporary residence and satisfaction of the other statutory conditions; the law expressly counts time under the qualifying company-founder basis.

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  • Permanent residence is a separate application, not an automatic outcome; the 2026 consolidation and independent review remain pending.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.
  • Law on Foreigners 88/15, Article 52(5)
    Produženje privremenog boravka može se odobriti na zahtjev stranca, ali samo po istom osnovu po kojem mu je odobren privremeni boravak
  • Law on Foreigners 88/15, Article 80(3)
    kao osnivaču privrednog društva iz člana 77. (Boravak u svrhu rada bez radne dozvole i potvrda o prijavi rada) stav (2) tačka a) ovog zakona, u vrijeme potrebno za odobrenje stalnog boravka

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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