Immigration in Tunisia
Tunisia
is generally not interested in foreign employees. A
non-Tunisian can only obtain a job in Tunisia, if there is no
Tunisian, who is either qualified for this job or could
be trained for the job - which, under normal conditions, means: no
chance for foreigners.
Tunisia is, however, interested very much in foreign currency being
brought into the country - and so it makes the permission for residency
dependent on the foreigner bringing along
sufficient money for his life in Tunesien and/or receives money
regularly
each month from the foreign country (eg. a pension in retirement).
So, obtaining the residency in Tunisia is very easy - there are
only 2 basic conditions to be fulfilled:
a)
the person receives regularly money from abroad, per year it
should be about 6,000 EUR/UKP (8000 USD) per person, thus
around 500
EUR/UKP (650 USD) per month. This "income" has to be proven eg. by a
letter of a bank in Tunisia.
b) the person has an own house or lives in rented apartment (there must
be an official contract/deed to prove it)
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Opening an Enterprise/Company
A further
possibility is the opening of an own enterprise. This is
rewarded by the Tunisian state by exemption from taxes for
some
years - however, there are only certain fields of business,
which are promoted and these are, briefly said, either export-oriented
production enterprises
or enterprises, who work completely extraterritorial
(holding companies, etc.).
Enterprises for
service achievements
and production of goods, which are to be predominantly offered in
Tunesien, are not impossible to start, but their establishment is
connected with
numerous restrictions and bureaucratic hurdles, so that one should
seek professional assistance by an attorney before considering it.
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If
and as long as the conditions for residence are fulfilled, a person
receives each year a new residence permit
(“Carte Sejour”) for one year, later, this permit
can span multiple years as well.
The
simplest form of the immigration in Tunisia is, therefore, a person
living there eg. as a retired/pensioner and getting his
pension transferred to his bank
account in Tunisia each month.
Nationality
Tunisian citizen will full citizenship rights is everyone, who was born
as a child to a Tunisian father.
There is a simplified naturalization procedure
possible for wives of Tunisian
citizens, although by this, one does not obtain the full citizenship
rights (mainly restrictions to obtain public administration positions).
For children of a Tunisian mother or husbands of Tunisian
female citizen, the possibilities of a simplified naturalization
exist likewise, but are a little bit more difficult. |
