Residency Through Investment
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Venezuela 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 Venezuela to Bolivia · Residency through investment
Bolivia has no investor residency. What it has is the multiple visa: a one-year, renewable entry permit for people doing investment and business, which lets you come and go as often as you like but does not make you a resident. The consular network adds a limit the regulation does not contain - stays of no more than 90 uninterrupted days at a time. An investor who wants to live in Bolivia uses the ordinary work route on the strength of the company, not a separate investor category.
At a glance
- Investor residency category
- None
Inciso g of article 9 of Decreto Supremo 1923, quoted here, is the whole of the instrument's treatment of investors, and what it gives is a multiple-entry visa for one year rather than a residence. Investment is not among the purposes article 13 issues a temporary stay for.
- Minimum investment
- None published
Neither inciso g of article 9 of Decreto Supremo 1923 nor the consular network's description of the multiple visa, both quoted here, names a sum. The consular tariff states the price of the visa, not a threshold for the investment.
- Multiple visa validity
- 1 year, renewable for similar periods
- Multiple visa fee
- USD 200as of 2026-09-27
From the consular fee table published by a Bolivian consulate in Spain. It is the most expensive visa on that schedule.
- Stay per entry
- No more than 90 uninterrupted days
Stated by the consular network. The migration regulation's own definition of the multiple visa contains no such limit.
- Does it lead to permanent residence
- No - it authorises entry and exit, not residence
Requirements
- For the multiple visa: a sworn declaration form and a passport valid at least six months
- Legalised incorporation documents of the company you represent in your country of origin or residence, or a legalised copy of the Bolivian tax number if the company was set up in Bolivia
- A current police, criminal or judicial record certificate from your country of origin or residence
- For residence rather than entry: the ordinary temporary stay for work, supported by the company's constitution, tax number and commercial registration
In detail
A condition the consulates add
The regulation defines the multiple visa in one sentence and imposes no limit on how long each visit may last. The consular network's page adds a ceiling of 90 uninterrupted days per stay. Both are Bolivian state publications and they do not say the same thing. Plan around the consular version, since the consulate is the body that issues the visa, but know that the instrument behind it is silent.
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 Venezuela
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
«Es otorgada por un (1) año renovable por periodos similares, a personas extranjeras que realizan actividades de inversión y negocios para el ingreso y salida del territorio boliviano de manera periódica.»Our translation - not official
It is granted for one (1) year renewable for similar periods, to foreign persons carrying out investment and business activities, for periodic entry to and exit from Bolivian territory.
The whole of the instrument's treatment of investors. It says nothing about a minimum amount, nothing about residence, and nothing about a cap on the length of each stay.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
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 Múltiple autoriza el ingreso y salida del país de manera constante a personas extranjeras con la finalidad de realizar actividades de inversión y negocios. Tiene vigencia de 1 año con estadía en territorio boliviano por periodos no mayores a 90 días ininterrumpidos.»Our translation - not official
The Multiple Visa authorises constant entry to and exit from the country by foreign persons for the purpose of carrying out investment and business activities. It is valid for 1 year with stays in Bolivian territory for periods of no more than 90 uninterrupted days.
The 90-day cap appears here and nowhere in the regulation. This is the consular network describing a condition the instrument does not impose, which is the sort of gap worth knowing about before booking a long trip.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The consular network. Publishes visa descriptions, requirement lists and the consular tariff, one shared template across every post.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law: it adds conditions the regulation does not contain, capping the multiple visa at ninety uninterrupted days and shortening the student stay from three years to one. It also serves a machine-translated English rendering to some clients, so any reading has to be language-checked before a Spanish excerpt is taken from it.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
«Visa Múltiple (múltiples entradas y salidas durante un año).
200 $»Our translation - not official
Multiple Visa (multiple entries and exits during one year): 200 dollars
About this source
The consular network. Publishes visa descriptions, requirement lists and the consular tariff, one shared template across every post.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law: it adds conditions the regulation does not contain, capping the multiple visa at ninety uninterrupted days and shortening the student stay from three years to one. It also serves a machine-translated English rendering to some clients, so any reading has to be language-checked before a Spanish excerpt is taken from it.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
Practical notes
The negative claim - no investor residency - rests on articles 9, 12, 13 and 15 of the migration regulation and on the migration directorate's published catalogue of procedures for foreigners. Neither contains an investment category.
The multiple visa is not one of the visas the regulation lists as leading to a temporary stay. The study, work, health and family visas all say in terms that they entitle the holder to apply for one; the multiple visa's definition does not.
- 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)
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 365 days. More about this source
- administersVisas - red consular boliviana
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Bolivia) - red consular
About this source
The consular network. Publishes visa descriptions, requirement lists and the consular tariff, one shared template across every post.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law: it adds conditions the regulation does not contain, capping the multiple visa at ninety uninterrupted days and shortening the student stay from three years to one. It also serves a machine-translated English rendering to some clients, so any reading has to be language-checked before a Spanish excerpt is taken from it.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersArancel consular - visas
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Bolivia) - red consular
About this source
The consular network. Publishes visa descriptions, requirement lists and the consular tariff, one shared template across every post.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Cannot be cited for the law: it adds conditions the regulation does not contain, capping the multiple visa at ninety uninterrupted days and shortening the student stay from three years to one. It also serves a machine-translated English rendering to some clients, so any reading has to be language-checked before a Spanish excerpt is taken from it.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source