Dissertation (MA International Relations)The study examined the Impact of Immigration Services on Foreign Direct Investment in Zanzibar. In its insight, the study was enriched with the following objectives: To examine the enforcement of Laws, Regulations, Policies and Duties that govern towards issuing passes and permits to Foreign Direct Investors, to understand the processes and procedures through which Foreign Direct Investors are obliged to follow, to investigate the strategies and find out challenges that face Immigration Authority in improving working standard on facilitation of foreign investors, to determine how is Immigration working in collaboration with other stake-holders such as ZIPA, Labour and Tourism Commissions in Zanzibar in attracting Foreign Direct Investments, and to examine the challenges that Immigration Authority faces and its strategies towards them. The study was done in Zanzibar Immigration Authority and ZIPA whereby officials were interviewed and investors who were applying resident permits were provided with questionnaires. The data were collected through interviews, document reviews and questionnaires analyzed with the aid of Microsoft Excel of which 50 respondents were involved in the study. The study found that there is great impact of Immigration Services on Foreign Direct Investment through its facilitation, using its legal framework: policy, laws and regulations. However, there are challenges that Immigration faces and they should be solved namely the mix up of procedures, different enforcement of laws and regulations from others institutions, low education and not cooperation from some investors. The study put some recommendations namely to have special awareness programme to both public and investors and hasten the completion of the Act and new Policy of Immigration to help the Authority face those challenges.