No Price on the Door - a Business Plan Judged by People Who Know the Trade
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Mexico 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 Mexico to Germany · Residency through investment
Germany does not sell residence. The self-employment permit may be issued where there is an economic interest or a regional need, where the activity can be expected to have positive effects on the economy, and where its financing is secured by equity or a loan commitment. The assessment is then described rather than scored: the viability of the business idea, the applicant's entrepreneurial experience, the amount of capital, the effect on employment and training, and the contribution to innovation and research - with the bodies competent for the trade at the planned location consulted.
At a glance
- A minimum investment
- None in the section
- What is judged instead
- The business idea, your experience, the capital, the effect on jobs and training, and the contribution to innovation
- Who is consulted
- The bodies competent for the trade at the planned location
- Financing
- Equity or a loan commitment - a promise counts
Requirements
- An economic interest or a regional need for the activity
- An expectation of positive effects on the economy
- Financing secured by equity or a loan commitment
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Mexico
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. Die Beurteilung der Voraussetzungen nach Satz 1 richtet sich insbesondere nach der Tragfähigkeit der zu Grunde liegenden Geschäftsidee, den unternehmerischen Erfahrungen des Ausländers, der Höhe des Kapitaleinsatzes, den Auswirkungen auf die Beschäftigungs- und Ausbildungssituation und dem Beitrag für Innovation und Forschung. Bei der Prüfung sind die für den Ort der geplanten Tätigkeit fachkundigen Körpers»The three conditions and the five things the assessment looks at. There is no sum anywhere in it, which is the difference from every other investor route in this corpus.
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Practical notes
Germany's route is discretionary - "kann" - where its skilled-worker routes are mandatory. That difference is in the verbs and is not a matter of practice.
The paragraphs that follow carry special cases, including for graduates of German universities, and are not read here.
- 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