Anjouan Gambling Licence 2026: Official Fees, Required Documents and the Application Process

The published schedule

The Authority publishes its fee schedule, which puts this cluster in a better position than most offshore jurisdictions, where the number comes from whoever is selling you the licence.

Item	Amount	Applies to
Licence issuance	EUR 17,828, one-off	B2C and B2B, the same figure
Annual renewal	EUR 17,828, each year	B2C and B2B, the same figure
Additional domain or URL	EUR 500 each	B2C only

Two conditions sit alongside the table. Application fees are non-refundable regardless of the outcome of the application, so a refusal costs you the full amount. And renewal is due before the licence renewal date as specified by the Authority, not on a date you choose.

The Authority also notes that it may charge for services such as domain modifications, licence amendments and certificate replacements, with those costs given on request. Those are not published, so we do not publish a figure for them either.

Renewal is the same as issuance, and this is where most guides are wrong

The figure you will see almost everywhere for Anjouan renewal is roughly EUR 15,000. It appeared on this page too until September 2026. The schedule says EUR 17,828, the same as issuance.

That is not a rounding difference, and it changes how the jurisdiction compares. A licence that costs less to keep than to get is a different commercial proposition from one that charges the same every year. Over five years the published schedule comes to EUR 89,140 in regulator fees before anything else, against EUR 77,828 on the figure people quote.

If an adviser quotes you a renewal below the published figure, ask which line of the schedule it corresponds to. It may be that their fee includes a discount arrangement, or it may be that they are repeating a number that has been circulating since 2023.

What is a regulator fee and what is not

The published schedule is the whole of what the Authority charges. Everything else in a quoted package is somebody else’s fee, and the two get bundled together often enough that it is worth separating them.

Regulator fees. Issuance, annual renewal, and EUR 500 per additional B2C domain. Plus whatever the Authority charges for amendments, which it does not publish.

Third-party and professional costs. Company formation and the registered address, the corporate service provider’s retainer, legal fees for assembling the application, and the compliance work behind the anti-money-laundering programme. These vary by provider and none of them are set by the Authority.

Not applicable at all. There is no minimum capital requirement published, no gaming tax and no corporate tax on offshore income. Be careful with quotes that present a bond, a capital lock-up or a tax as though Anjouan required it.

Three budget scenarios

These separate the published regulator fee from everything else, and we label which is which rather than presenting one total.

Licence only, first year. EUR 17,828 to the Authority. This is the floor and it is a real floor, because the fee is published and non-refundable.

Standard launch, first year. The EUR 17,828 fee plus a Comoros company, registered address, corporate services and the professional work of preparing the file. Advisers commonly quote packages in the region of EUR 25,000 to EUR 35,000 all in, which we carry as adviser-reported rather than verified, because none of it is published by the Authority.

Multi-domain launch, first year. Add EUR 500 for each domain beyond the first on a B2C licence. An operator running six brand domains adds EUR 2,500 to the regulator bill.

Year two onwards. EUR 17,828 every year, plus EUR 500 per additional domain if the estate grows, plus whatever your service provider charges to keep the company and the compliance function alive.

B2C and B2B cost the same, and that is the point to notice

The fee is identical for both categories. What differs is scope, not price. A B2C licence authorises you to offer gaming to players. A B2B licence authorises you to supply technology or services to licensed operators. Neither includes the other.

So a group that both operates a casino and licenses its platform to third parties needs two licences at EUR 17,828 each, issued and renewed separately. That is EUR 35,656 a year in regulator fees, and it is the single most expensive misreading in this jurisdiction because the pricing page looks like it is telling you the licence is cheap.

Our B2C and B2B comparison sets out which category does what.

How to check an adviser’s quote

Four questions separate a quote you can evaluate from one you cannot.

Ask which line of the published schedule each number corresponds to. Ask what the renewal will be in year two, stated as a figure rather than as “similar”. Ask how many domains the price covers and what each additional one costs. And ask what happens to the money if the application is refused, because the Authority’s own fee is non-refundable and you want to know whether the professional fee is too.

Required documents and the application process

The Authority also publishes what it wants filed and the stages it runs. Both are shorter than the commercial guides suggest.

What the Authority actually asks for

The published list is shorter than most guides suggest, and worth reading for what it does not say as much as for what it does.

Corporate documents. Certificates of incorporation, articles of association, current shareholder registers, and for a corporate group the full ownership chain through to the ultimate beneficial owner. The Authority asks for certified copies of corporate formation documents.

People. For directors, shareholders and beneficial owners: government-issued identification, proof of address, personal declarations, and professional history and references if requested.

Money. Audited financial statements, bank references and source-of-funds evidence. The standard is that the applicant demonstrates adequate financial standing to support the proposed licensed operations. Note the shape of that test: it is a judgement about your operation rather than a capital threshold, and there is no published minimum capital to meet.

Everything has to be complete, accurate and current at the time of submission.

What the Authority does not say, and other guides fill in anyway

Three gaps are worth naming, because you will see all three answered confidently elsewhere.

There is no published requirement for notarisation or apostille. Certified copies are asked for on corporate formation documents. Anything stricter that you are told is required may well be your provider’s practice, or another jurisdiction’s rule carried across, and it is worth asking which.

There is no published validity period for documents. The requirement is that they are current at submission. A rule that a bank reference must be under three months old is a sensible professional standard and not a published one.

And technical documentation is not itemised on the required-documents page. Given that licence conditions turn on approved operational domains, expect the domains to be part of the filing, but we are not going to invent a technical annex the Authority has not published.

The four stages

The process is published as four steps, and they are less elaborate than the five-stage or seven-stage flows you will find in commercial guides.

Submission. The forms and supporting documentation, with all mandatory documents from the required list.

Review of the applicant information. The Authority examines what you filed for completeness and accuracy, and may contact you for clarification or more information.

Regulatory due diligence. This is the substantive stage. It covers corporate structure review, key-person evaluation, verification of the source of funds, and sanctions screening.

Issuance. The licence is granted subject to defined conditions and recorded in the public register, which is the point at which anyone can verify it. Our verification guide covers what that entry shows.

The Authority can request further documentation at any stage where it needs more to assess the application, so the stages are not strictly sequential in practice.

The timeline question

There is no published processing time. None.

What the Authority says is that processing times depend on the completeness of the submitted documentation and the complexity of the due-diligence review, and that applicants should submit complete, accurate documentation to avoid delays. That is the whole of it.

Every figure you have seen for Anjouan, including the one to two months this site quoted until September 2026, is adviser observation. It may well be accurate, and the jurisdiction does have a genuine reputation for speed. But it is not a commitment, there is nothing to appeal to if it slips, and a page that presents it as a statutory period is telling you something the Authority has not said.

Plan on the work being done when your file is complete, because the one lever the Authority names is the completeness of your own submission.

What actually causes delay

The Authority gives one warning directly: incomplete submissions may result in processing delays or refusal of the application. Refusal, not just delay, and the issuance fee is non-refundable regardless of outcome, so an incomplete file is an expensive way to learn this.

Beyond that, the due-diligence stage is where complexity turns into time. A layered ownership chain takes longer to trace to its ultimate beneficial owner. Key persons with histories in multiple jurisdictions take longer to evaluate. Source-of-funds evidence that arrives as a narrative rather than as documents invites a second request.

Before you file

Assemble the ownership chain to the ultimate beneficial owner first, because it is the part most likely to be incomplete and the part the due-diligence stage is built around. Get corporate formation documents certified. Decide the licence category before filing rather than after, since B2C and B2B are separate and the fee is charged per category; our category guide sets out the test. List every domain you intend to operate, because only approved domains may carry licensed activity and each additional B2C domain carries a fee. And budget the published fees above knowing the issuance fee does not come back if the answer is no.

What this licence does not buy

A cost page that stops at the fee is only half useful. The published schedule buys you an authorisation under Anjouan law and an entry in the public register. It does not buy market access: the Authority states that licences carry no territorial restrictions under Anjouan law and that operators remain solely responsible for geo-blocking and local compliance, which means every market you serve is your own legal question. It does not buy banking either: payment acceptance is a separate decision by each bank and payment provider.

Our market-access analysis works through the four checks that decide where you can actually take bets.