Return home
Returning to Cameroon: preparing your return
A return takes several months of preparation. This page lists the questions to settle and points to the institutions that can answer them.
Questions to settle before leaving
- Your identity and civil status documents: which are up to date, and which are renewed through Cameroon's representation in your country of residence.
- Your luggage and personal effects: the rules are set by Cameroonian customs, which you should ask before shipping anything.
- Your diplomas: their recognition in Cameroon depends on the competent ministry, and equivalence is requested before you apply.
- Your health and social protection: what you leave behind in your country of residence and what you regain in Cameroon.
- Your tax position in the country you are leaving: ask its tax authority what applies to your departure.
- Your children's schooling, if you return as a family.
Institutions that give information
IOM follows migration and reintegration questions in Cameroon. Customs, the territorial administration and the Ministry of Public Health publish their own pages. Check them before spending anything.
- IOM Cameroon website(opens in a new tab)
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Cameroon
IOM country page for Cameroon with news, work areas and contact details of the Yaoundé office.
- Migration Management, IOM Cameroon(opens in a new tab)
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Cameroon
Page presenting IOM areas of work in Cameroon, including the reintegration of migrants.
- Cameroon Customs website(opens in a new tab)
Cameroon Customs (in French)
Home page of Cameroon Customs, to consult for the rules on personal effects and vehicles.
- MINAT website(opens in a new tab)
Ministry of Territorial Administration (MINAT) (in French)
Home page of the Cameroonian Ministry of Territorial Administration.
- MINSANTE web portal(opens in a new tab)
Ministry of Public Health of Cameroon (MINSANTE) (in French)
Web portal of the Cameroonian Ministry of Public Health.
In your country of residence
Departure procedures are handled by the administrations of the country you are leaving: residence, taxation, recognition of diplomas. Each country page links to their sources.
What the programme does, and does not do
Diaspora Cameroun does not organise returns and does not issue any official document. It points to the institutions in charge, and it connects members registered on the platform.
Links checked on 27 October 2026. If one no longer works, write to us from the Contact page.
A particular situation?
Describe it to the secretariat and tell us your country of residence.