No Passive-Income Permit - Germany Builds Every Title Around an Activity
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Antigua and Barbuda on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Antigua and Barbuda to Germany · Residency on passive income
The Residence Act creates titles by purpose: employment, self-employment, study, training, research, family, humanitarian protection. None of them is living on your own money. A person with capital and no intention to work has no route written for them, and the nearest thing in the Act is the self-employment permit, which asks for an economic interest and positive effects on the economy rather than for a balance.
At a glance
- A permit written for passive income
- None in the Act
The Residence Act's titles are listed by purpose of stay and none of them is living on one's own means.
- The nearest provision
- The self-employment permit, which asks for a business rather than a balance
Section 21, on the investor record.
- What this means in practice
- There is no German equivalent of a non-lucrative or elective residence
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda
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
«Einem Ausländer kann eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis zur Ausübung einer selbständigen Tätigkeit erteilt werden, wenn 1. ein wirtschaftliches Interesse oder ein regionales Bedürfnis besteht, 2. die Tätigkeit positive Auswirkungen auf die Wirtschaft erwarten lässt und 3. die Finanzierung der Umsetzung durch Eigenkapital oder durch eine Kreditzusage gesichert ist.»Quoted to show what the nearest route actually asks for: an economic interest and positive effects, not an amount of money.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Germany's consolidated federal statute book, served as plain HTML with the whole Act on one page at a stable address built from its Bundesgesetzblatt number. Each Act carries a footer stating the amendment it is current to.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The portal states that the texts are not official and that the Bundesgesetzblatt governs. It is served as ISO-8859-1 with the charset in a meta tag, so a fetch assuming UTF-8 destroys every umlaut. The English translations published alongside are explicitly non-binding and are never quoted here.
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Practical notes
This record exists so a reader stops looking. Spain and Portugal both have a passive-income route and Germany does not, which is the kind of difference a comparison makes visible and a country page alone does not.
Retirement is the same answer and has its own record.
- consolidatesAufenthaltsgesetz, § 21
Gesetze im Internet, Bundesministerium der Justiz und Bundesamt für Justiz
About this source
Germany's consolidated federal statute book, served as plain HTML with the whole Act on one page at a stable address built from its Bundesgesetzblatt number. Each Act carries a footer stating the amendment it is current to.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The portal states that the texts are not official and that the Bundesgesetzblatt governs. It is served as ISO-8859-1 with the charset in a meta tag, so a fetch assuming UTF-8 destroys every umlaut. The English translations published alongside are explicitly non-binding and are never quoted here.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source