Nicaragua has proven to be an increasingly attractive foreign direct investment (FDI) destination through the implementation of a series of pro-business policies and the strengthening of its competitive advantages. Let us guide you through the main steps in establishing your operations in this country and begin taking advantage of Nicaragua's business advantages.

1. How to Set Up a Company

PRONicaragua's "Service Guide for Investors" provides a complete list of the main goods and services providers that investors require to successfully establish and begin operations in Nicaragua.

PRONicaragua's 2013 Investment Overview provides a summary of Nicaragua's main competitive advantages as an investment destination and its main investment opportunities. 

Nicaragua's Immigration Law (761) provides certain categories under which investors, both non-resident foreign investors and foreign workers who move to Nicaragua as human capital, may have access to a preferential system of immigration status.

Before buying a property, the investor should ask the owner about the history of the property registry, which allows them to check for possible conflicts of legitimacy, as well as the document “Free Assessment” to determine that the property has no debt whatsoever.

The process of registering a company in Nicaragua can be fast tracked by using the services provided by the Investment One-Stop Shop (VUI, for its acronym in Spanish). The office, which gathers the main government institutions involved in the process, provides top-quality services free of charge for investors, reducing the registration time to approximately 13 days. The main steps are:

1. The World Bank (Doing Business Report, 2011) catalogues Colombia as the fifth country in the world, among 183 countries, and as the first in Latin America, to protect investors.

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PROECUADOR gives you over 100 factsheets on trade and investment relations with Ecuador. 

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1. Ecuador's economy is one of the most dynamic of the region.