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The Single Window for Investment moves forward and launches its first digital procedures
The platform that centralizes and simplifies the process of setting up a business in Uruguay begins operating with its first online procedure.
Publication date: 01/10/2025
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Uruguay XXI presented the Single Window for Investment (VUI) in December 2023. Today, October 1st, 2025, the platform enters its second stage of development with the incorporation of the first procedures that can be managed directly through it.
Created under the 2022 Accountability Law, the VUI is promoted by Uruguay XXI and the Single Window for Foreign Trade (VUCE), with the support of the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC). Its objective is to simplify and streamline the processes involved in establishing investments in Uruguay, consolidating the country as a reliable, competitive, and innovative destination.
In its first phase, the VUI functioned as an information channel that brought together in one place all the necessary steps for investing in Uruguay—from opening a company to hiring personnel and interacting with different agencies. With this new stage, the platform evolves into a more comprehensive model by allowing procedures to be carried out online. These procedures still depend on the competent agencies, but are now channeled through the VUI.
Starting today, the first procedure is operational: the Biannual Declaration for Free Trade Zone Companies, managed by the National Directorate of Free Trade Zones of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. This service is intended for companies operating in free trade zones, a central regime for internationalizing business from Uruguay.
Another step forward in modernizing the business climate
The creation of the VUI is inspired by international experiences with single windows, with a broader, cross-cutting approach. Uruguay has already built a successful track record with the VUCE, which modernized foreign trade management, and now aims to transfer that experience to the field of investment.
With the launch of its first procedures, the VUI is positioning itself as a concrete tool that strengthens the country’s strategy to improve the business climate, attract quality investments, and offer a transparent and predictable business environment.