RwandaStarting a business
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The DGIE describes G2 as a permit for trade in goods or services as a national of a country outside the region.
Permit is issued to a foreigner who intends to engage in trade of goods or services and who is from the country outside the region.
The new-application list includes a detailed CV, a full business-registration certificate, original police clearance (the page refers to the country of previous residence and says ‘of six months’), an application letter, and a valid, recognised travel document whose validity is not less than six months. The page does not mention a business plan, clients, revenue, job creation or another business-substance test.
* Detailed Curriculum Vitae.
* Full Business registration certificate.
* Original police clearance from the country of the previous residence of six months.
*Application letter
* Valid and recognized travel document not less than six months
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.
The permit is described for trade in goods or services as a national of a country outside the region. This page section does not set out separate work or business rights beyond that activity description, or state accompanying-family rights.
Permit is issued to a foreigner who intends to engage in trade of goods or services and who is from the country outside the region.
The DGIE page gives the G2 permit validity as “Up to years”; that wording does not establish a clear permit term. A renewal application lists a copy of a trade licence or patent. It separately lists G3-2 for an applicant who has already acquired a similar temporary resident permit twice and needs to apply for renewal; that class is listed with a tax-clearance certificate, a 250,000 Frw fee and validity five years. The official source does not state a longer-term residence direction.
*Up to years
* Copy of trade lincese/pantate
Permit is issued to a foreigner who intends to engage in trade of goods or services and who is from the country outside the region, who has already acquired similar residence permit twice.
* Tax clearance certificate from Rwanda Revenue Authority
* 250,000 Frw
* Five years
G3-2: Nationals(recurring applicant) from outside the region, engaged in trade of goods and services
These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.
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