Residency on Passive Income
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Chile on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Chile to Bolivia · Residency on passive income
Bolivia has no passive-income route. The migration regulation lists the grounds on which a temporary stay may be granted - study, work, health, family, humanitarian - and living on money from elsewhere is not among them. There is no rentista category, no threshold to meet and no published figure to compare. What Bolivia asks of everyone is different in kind: proof of lawful means of support by sworn declaration with documents behind it, attached to one of the named grounds rather than standing on its own.
At a glance
- Passive-income route
- None
Parágrafo II of article 13 of Decreto Supremo 1923, quoted here, opens the list of purposes a temporary stay is issued for - study, work, health, family, humanitarian - and it is exhaustive on its face. The visa classes in article 9 are the other closed list, and income is in neither.
- Minimum income threshold
- None published, because there is no category to attach one to
- What is asked instead
- Economic solvency by sworn declaration with documentary support
- Grounds a temporary stay can rest on
- Study, work, health, family, humanitarian
- Closest usable route for someone not employed locally
- Temporary stay for work without an employment relationship
Requirements
- Qualify on one of the grounds the regulation names - study, work, health, family or humanitarian - because income alone is not one of them
- Proof of economic solvency by sworn declaration supported by documents, required on every temporary stay except the humanitarian one
- If your income is from your own business or self-employment, the self-employed work route is the one that fits; see the work topic
In detail
What to do if your money comes from abroad
The route that fits is the temporary stay for work without an employment relationship, which is designed for lucrative activity on your own account. It asks for a sworn declaration setting out what you do, where you are based and how long you intend to stay. It carries a real fee - 960 UFV for a year - where a passive-income category in a neighbouring country might not exist at all or might be cheaper; but it exists, and it renews.
Country-level policy
Bolivia does not set migration fees in money. It sets them in Unidades de Fomento a la Vivienda, an inflation-indexed unit whose value in bolivianos is published daily, and you pay the boliviano equivalent on the day you pay. Every figure on this country's pages is therefore a number of UFV: quoting it in bolivianos without saying so would be publishing a number that goes quietly stale.
Bolivia cancels a residence permit for absence, and the test is different at each level. A temporary permit allows 90 days a year out of the country, counted whether the days are consecutive or scattered. A permanent permit allows two continuous years. The two are not the same kind of rule: the temporary one is an annual quota, so four separate trips of a month each breach it, while the permanent one only bites on an unbroken absence.
Whatever route you take, the migration directorate attaches the same condition to it: you have to file a sworn statement of your current address on its online platform. The notice appears word for word on every residence procedure Bolivia publishes, from a 30-day tourist extension to naturalisation, and it names the decree that introduced it.
On 30 March 2026 Bolivia created a government-wide deregulation programme called Tranca Cero. It builds a single national catalogue of procedures and provides that, once that catalogue is fully in place, no requirement outside it may be demanded. The migration directorate has put a notice at the top of its own procedures page saying its published requirements are the ones currently in force and that the changes coming out of the programme will be added when the implementing rules appear. Everything on Bolivia's pages should be read against that.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Chile
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«La permanencia temporal se emite por los siguientes fines:»Our translation - not official
The temporary stay is issued for the following purposes:
The list that follows is study, work, health, family and humanitarian. It is exhaustive on its face, and no item in it is about living on income.
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Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
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«Solvencia económica acreditada mediante declaración jurada respaldada documentalmente. Excepto para la permanencia temporal humanitaria;»Our translation - not official
Economic solvency evidenced by a sworn declaration with documentary support. Except for the humanitarian temporary stay;
A sworn declaration with documents behind it, not a figure. Bolivia asks you to show you can support yourself without saying how much that is.
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A labour-law database that holds national gazettes' own PDFs. Used here only where a country's gazette and consolidator were both unreachable, so that the artefact quoted is still the gazette's own file even though the host is not the gazette.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
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«La visa es la autorización de ingreso a territorio boliviano a personas extranjeras y se clasifican en:»Our translation - not official
The visa is the authorisation of entry to Bolivian territory for foreign persons, and they are classified as:
The classification that follows - transit, courtesy, student, humanitarian, tourism or visit, specific purpose, multiple - has no entry for a person of independent means either.
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Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
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Practical notes
This is a negative claim and here is exactly what it rests on: articles 9, 12, 13 and 15 of the migration regulation, which between them list every visa class and every ground for a transitory, temporary or permanent stay, and the migration directorate's full published catalogue of procedures for foreigners, which runs to thirty-two entries and contains no passive-income, rentista or independent-means category.
We did not survey Bolivian law beyond those instruments and that catalogue. A special regime created by some other decree would not have been caught by this reading.
Because there is no category, there is also no published income threshold. Any figure quoted elsewhere for a Bolivian passive-income visa should be treated with suspicion until it is traced to an instrument.
- reportsDecreto Supremo N° 1923 - Reglamento de la Ley N° 370 de Migración (Gaceta Oficial, via ILO NATLEX)
Gaceta Oficial del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (copy held by ILO NATLEX)
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A labour-law database that holds national gazettes' own PDFs. Used here only where a country's gazette and consolidator were both unreachable, so that the artefact quoted is still the gazette's own file even though the host is not the gazette.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law as currently in force. A record is created once and holds the text as enacted; later amending instruments are not reflected in the file, so anything taken from it must be checked against a consolidator before being treated as current. Its own page rendering also splits words inside sentences, so quotations must come from the attached PDF rather than from the page.
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- administersTrámites Migratorios Internacionales - catálogo general para personas extranjeras
Dirección General de Migración (Bolivia)
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The migration directorate. Runs the migration system and publishes the requirement and fee catalogue for every procedure, differentiated by the applicant's nationality - which is how the difference between an Andean, a Mercosur and an ordinary applicant becomes visible at all.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the text of any instrument: it paraphrases and mis-titles them, calling SEGIP's counterpart the "Dirección Nacional de Migración". Cannot be cited for the visa-group lists, which it never publishes, nor for how tourist requirements differ by nationality - its tourist rows are identical for every country and demand a consular visa even of visa-exempt ones, which contradicts Decision 878. Two of its requirement fields ship with developer placeholder text still in them. The citable text is a JSON feed on a non-standard port, so a publisher-origin match will not find it.
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