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Business startup process and requirements
Foreign Investment Approval Certificate (FIAC)
- Calling the clients and inform them that their certificates are ready
- Emailing soft copies of the approved certificates. That is why clients or key contact persons are strongly encouraged to provided their email accounts in the application
- Send through post and advise client accordingly
- Investors profile failed to meet FIU checks
- Proposed investments fall in the reserved or prohibited list
- Proposed investments did not meet the specified criteria
An F4 Business Activity is any professional business or service providing services such as Management Consulting, Property Managers, Real Estate agents, Legal Practitioners, Accounting and Auditing services and similar. A foreign investor is allowed to apply for an F4 activity however approvals are only provided on a case by case basis. This is because Vanuatu has seen an influx of F4 activities and the agency will now be selective of what types of F4 activities can be approved as investments in the country. For further explanation please consult a staff of the agency.
Other startup requirements
Investment Activities
- Prohibited - business activities that are prohibited and WILL NOT be in anyway allowed. For example manufacture of chemical weapons
- Restricted - business activities open to foreign investment subject to meeting set minimum thresholds
- Reserved - business activities reserved solely for Ni Vanuatu
Investment Priorities
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