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C1 - Self-Employed Prescribed Professional

RwandaStarting a business

Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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

The DGIE describes C1 as a permit for a self-employed foreigner practising a prescribed profession.

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

The new-application list includes original police clearance (the page refers to the country of previous residence and says ‘of six months’), a detailed CV, a full business-registration certificate, a certificate of membership in a registered professional body, and an application letter. The page does not mention a business plan, clients, revenue, job creation or another business-substance test.

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Limits of the record
  • The page gives an application document list but does not describe a business plan, clients, revenue or job-creation test.

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

The official DGIE section gives no minimum investment, capital, income or revenue threshold. It lists a government application fee of 150,000 Frw; that fee is not an investment amount.

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Limits of the record
  • No financial threshold is stated in this section; the listed fee is an application charge.

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

The permit is described for a self-employed foreigner practising a prescribed profession. This page section does not set out separate work or business rights beyond that activity description, or state accompanying-family rights.

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Limits of the record
  • The page does not specify broader activity limits or accompanying-family rights.

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

The DGIE page gives the C1 permit validity as “Two years onwards”; that wording does not establish a clear permit term. A renewal application lists a copy of a trade licence or patent. The official source does not state the approval sequence or a longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • The page states no permanent-residence or citizenship outcome.
  • The published permit-validity wording is unclear and is preserved as written.

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

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