The Property Route Is Gone, Not Narrowed: The New Act Simply Does Not Contain It, And Only The People Already On It Get Five More Years
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Croatia on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Croatia to Latvia · Residency through investment
Latvia's famous residence-by-property route is not restricted in the Imigrācijas likums of 20 August 2026. It is absent. The 2002 Act carried it at article 23(1)(29) - 250 000 EUR of real property in Riga, Jūrmala and a named ring of towns and parishes, or two properties of that value together elsewhere - and carried a bank route beside it at article 23(1)(30), subordinated liabilities of at least 280 000 EUR with a Latvian credit institution and a 25 000 EUR payment to the budget. Transitional provision 1 of the new Act repeals the 2002 Act outright, and article 27(1) of the new Act contains no property ground and no bank ground. What survives is capital in a company and money in a fund. Point 10 asks for an investment in the share capital of a company of at least 50 000 EUR where the company has no more than 50 staff and turnover or balance sheet no higher than 10 million EUR, or 100 000 EUR where it is larger, plus 10 000 EUR to the State budget, plus a running condition that the company pay at least 40 000 EUR, or 100 000 EUR for the larger case, in taxes each reporting year. Point 36 asks for a contract and a transfer of at least 150 000 EUR for at least five years into a State-established alternative investment fund manager, plus the same 10 000 EUR. Both can be switched off: article 28 lets the Cabinet suspend issuing under point 10 or point 36 for up to five years for nationals of a named third country.
At a glance
- Residence by buying property
- No such ground in article 27(1) of the Imigrācijas likums of 2026
The thirty-six points of article 27(1) were read in full. The ground existed as article 23(1)(29) of the 2002 Act, which transitional provision 1 of the new Act repealed.
- Company investment, small company
- 50 000 EUR, plus 10 000 EUR to the State budget
Article 27(1)(10)(a) of the Imigrācijas likums, for a company with no more than 50 staff and turnover or balance sheet no higher than 10 million EUR.
- Company investment, larger company
- 100 000 EUR, plus 10 000 EUR to the State budget
Article 27(1)(10)(b) of the Imigrācijas likums.
- The company's own tax bill, each year
- At least 40 000 EUR, or 100 000 EUR for the larger case
Article 27(1)(10)(a) and (b). Refunded tax does not count towards the total.
- Fund route
- 150 000 EUR for at least 5 years, plus 10 000 EUR to the State budget
Article 27(1)(36) of the Imigrācijas likums, into a State-established alternative investment fund manager.
- Permit length
- 2 years on the company route, 5 on the fund route
Article 27(1)(10) and article 27(1)(36).
- After five years on the company route
- A further 2000 EUR in one payment
Article 29(3) of the Imigrācijas likums, on the repeat permit.
- Who may be switched off
- Nationals of any third country the Cabinet names, for up to 5 years
Article 28 of the Imigrācijas likums, which applies to points 10 and 36 only.
Requirements
- 50 000 EUR into the share capital of a small company, or 100 000 EUR into a larger one, and 10 000 EUR to the State budget
- Or at least 150 000 EUR for at least five years into a State-established alternative investment fund manager, and 10 000 EUR to the State budget
- For the company route, taxes of at least 40 000 EUR a year paid by the company, or 100 000 EUR for the larger case
- Not a citizen of the Russian Federation or of the Republic of Belarus
Country-level policy
On 15 September 2026 a wholly new Imigrācijas likums, adopted by the Saeima on 20 August 2026 and published in Latvijas Vēstnesis 167 of 1 September 2026, replaced the Act of 31 October 2002. Transitional provision 1 repeals the old Act outright, and transitional provision 2 repeals the separate law on EU long-term resident status, folding that status into article 24(1)(2) as the pastāvīgās uzturēšanās atļauja. The renumbering is total: the catalogue of temporary residence grounds moved from article 23 to article 27, permanent residence from a separate Act to article 31, employment from article 9 to articles 42 to 47. Three things the new Act brings are new in substance rather than in numbering. Article 12 creates a duty to declare a trip 48 hours before entry for nationals of every state outside ten named groups. Articles 48 and 49 create a compulsory early integration programme - a Latvian culture and history course and Latvian at A1 - for anyone whose temporary permits total 18 months or more, paid for by the foreigner; transitional provision 20 postpones article 48 to 31 December 2027. And article 27 simply does not contain the property and bank investor routes the old Act carried. The subordinate legislation has not caught up. Transitional provision 3 keeps thirty-six Cabinet regulations applicable until 1 December 2027 in so far as they do not conflict with the new Act, and those regulations still cite the repealed Act's article numbers on their face: Regulation No. 675 is issued under article 2.1(2) and Regulation No. 225 under article 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3), and the Act in force has neither article.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Croatia
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
«10) uz laiku līdz diviem gadiem, ja viņš ir veicis ieguldījumu kapitālsabiedrības pamatkapitālā, to palielinot, vai ieguldījumu kapitālsabiedrības pamatkapitālā, dibinot jaunu kapitālsabiedrību, un, pieprasot pirmreizēju termiņuzturēšanās atļauju saskaņā ar šo punktu, ir samaksājis valsts budžetā 10 000 euro, kā arī veiktais ieguldījums ir vismaz:»Our translation - not official
for a period of up to two years, if he has made an investment in the share capital of a company by increasing it, or an investment in the share capital of a company by founding a new company, and, in requesting a first temporary residence permit under this point, has paid 10 000 euro into the State budget, and the investment made is at least:
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«a) 50 000 euro, un tas veikts kapitālsabiedrībā, kura nodarbina ne vairāk kā 50 darbinieku un kuras gada apgrozījums vai gada bilance nepārsniedz 10 miljonus euro.»Our translation - not official
50 000 euro, and it is made in a company employing no more than 50 employees and whose annual turnover or annual balance sheet does not exceed 10 million euro.
The same sub-point caps the number of foreigners who may take a permit from one company's share capital at ten, and makes the permit valid only while the company pays at least 40 000 EUR a year in taxes.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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«36) uz laiku līdz pieciem gadiem, ja ir noslēgts līgums un veikts pārskaitījums par vismaz 150 000 euro investīcijas veikšanu ne mazāk par pieciem gadiem valsts izveidotā alternatīvo ieguldījumu fonda pārvaldniekā un ārzemnieks ir samaksājis valsts budžetā 10 000 euro. Ārzemniekam izsniegtā termiņuzturēšanās atļauja ir spēkā, ja tās derīguma termiņa laikā valsts izveidotā alternatīvo ieguldījumu fonda pārvaldnieks apliecina, ka investīciju līgums nav izbeigts un investīciju atlikums nav mazāks par 150 000 euro.»Our translation - not official
for a period of up to five years, if a contract has been concluded and a transfer made for making an investment of at least 150 000 euro for not less than five years in a State-established alternative investment fund manager and the foreigner has paid 10 000 euro into the State budget. The temporary residence permit issued to the foreigner is valid if, during its period of validity, the State-established alternative investment fund manager certifies that the investment contract has not been terminated and the balance of the investment is not less than 150 000 euro.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«Termiņuzturēšanās atļauju izsniegšanu saskaņā ar šā likuma 27. panta pirmās daļas 10. vai 36. punktu ārzemniekiem var apturēt uz laiku līdz pieciem gadiem. Izvērtējis ietekmi uz nacionālo drošību vai valsts ekonomisko attīstību saistībā ar ārzemnieku skaitu valstī un koncentrāciju noteiktā valsts teritorijā, Ministru kabinets nosaka, kuras trešās valsts valstspiederīgajiem un uz kādu termiņu tiek apturēta attiecīgo termiņuzturēšanās atļauju izsniegšana.»Our translation - not official
The issuing of temporary residence permits to foreigners under point 10 or point 36 of the first paragraph of article 27 of this Act may be suspended for a period of up to five years. Having assessed the effect on national security or on the economic development of the State in connection with the number of foreigners in the country and their concentration in a particular territory of the State, the Cabinet of Ministers determines the nationals of which third country, and for what period, the issuing of the corresponding temporary residence permits is suspended.
A concentration test rather than a quota: the Cabinet may close either investor route to one nationality for five years without amending the Act.
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«(3) Ārzemniekam, kuram saskaņā ar šā likuma 27. panta pirmās daļas 10. punktā minēto iemeslu ir vai ir bijusi izsniegta termiņuzturēšanās atļauja, ir tiesības to pieprasīt atkārtoti, ja joprojām pastāv tās izsniegšanai nepieciešamie nosacījumi. Ja ārzemnieks saskaņā ar šā likuma 27. panta pirmās daļas 10. punktā minēto iemeslu Latvijas Republikā uzturējies vismaz piecus gadus un atkārtoti pieprasa termiņuzturēšanās atļauju, viņš, saņemot termiņuzturēšanās atļauju, samaksā vienā maksājumā valsts budžetā 2000 euro,»Our translation - not official
A foreigner who has or has had a temporary residence permit issued on the ground referred to in point 10 of the first paragraph of article 27 of this Act is entitled to request it repeatedly if the conditions necessary for its issue still exist. If the foreigner has stayed in the Republic of Latvia on the ground referred to in point 10 of the first paragraph of article 27 of this Act for at least five years and requests a temporary residence permit repeatedly, he pays, on receiving the temporary residence permit, 2000 euro into the State budget in one payment,
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The systematisation service of Latvia's official publisher. The state joint-stock company Latvijas Vēstnesis issues the official gazette at vestnesis.lv and separately runs likumi.lv, where every instrument is kept as a series of point-in-time versions. An instrument is addressed by a numeric document id, as /ta/id/370622-imigracijas-likums or simply /ta/id/370622, and the slug is decorative: the bare id answers. Each page carries a version selector showing the redaction in force and the date range it covers - Attēlotā redakcija, 15.09.2026.-30.12.2027. Spēkā esošā - and, where an amendment has been adopted but has not yet taken effect, a future redaction with its own date. The page footer carries the act's identity card: issuing body, date adopted, date in force, and the Latvijas Vēstnesis issue and OP number of the official publication. A repealed instrument keeps its address and gains a banner naming its successor, which is how the replacement of the Imigrācijas likums on 15 September 2026 is discoverable at all. Firecrawl reads the site without a proxy or a warm-up.
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Cannot be cited for: **Nothing here is the official text.** Every page carries, in its own words, "Sistematizēti tiesību akti ir informatīvi. Pretrunu gadījumā vadās pēc oficiālās publikācijas" - systematised legal acts are informative, and in case of contradiction the official publication governs. The official publication is the gazette at vestnesis.lv, identified by issue number and OP number, and a point that turns on an exact wording should be checked there. **The hyperlinks in a consolidated text follow a name rather than an instrument, and they move silently.** Cabinet regulations issued under the Imigrācijas likums still cite the repealed 2002 Act's article numbers on their face, and likumi.lv now renders those references as links to the 2026 Act: Regulation No. 675 reads "Izdoti saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma 2.1 panta otro daļu" linking to an Act that has no article 2.1, and Regulation No. 225 does the same for articles 4(1)(5) and 4.2(3). Nothing on either page says the reference has moved. **A statute's body is served inside an HTML table and extracts with literal `<br>` between every paragraph and every numbered point.** A quotation that crosses one carries the tag, so quotations must be taken within a single point. **The version date is the date the redaction took effect, not a sweep date**, so the cut-off recorded from it says what has been incorporated and not when the editors last looked. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the sector average wages that Cabinet Regulation No. 225 point 5.3 measures a work visa against, which the Central Statistical Bureau publishes; the needy-person income level that Cabinet Regulation No. 675 measures a Union citizen's means against; the average payment-account fee that caps the basic account, which the Finance Latvia Association publishes quarterly; the list of states Latvia has a bilateral visa-waiver treaty or a driving-licence treaty with, which appears in no instrument read here; and the practice of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, which publishes at pmlp.gov.lv and is a different publisher.
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«29) uz laiku, kas nepārsniedz piecus gadus, ja viņš Rīgā, Jūrmalā, Ikšķiles vai Saulkrastu pilsētā vai Ādažu, Ķekavas, Mārupes, Olaines vai Salaspils novadā, vai Garkalnes, Ropažu, Saulkrastu, Stopiņu vai Tīnūžu pagastā ir iegādājies un viņam pieder viens funkcionāli saistīts nekustamais īpašums (izņemot gadījumu, kad nekustamais īpašums ir neapbūvēta zeme), kura vērtība ir vismaz 250 000 euro,»Our translation - not official
for a period not exceeding five years, if in Riga, Jūrmala, the town of Ikšķile or Saulkrasti, or in the municipality of Ādaži, Ķekava, Mārupe, Olaine or Salaspils, or in the parish of Garkalne, Ropaži, Saulkrasti, Stopiņi or Tīnūži he has acquired and owns one functionally connected immovable property (except where the immovable property is undeveloped land) whose value is at least 250 000 euro,
Known to be out of date. This text is the repealed 2002 Act as it stood on 20 May 2026, which is the last version it ever had: it lost force on 15 September 2026. It is quoted to show what the route was, not what the law is.
The ground that no longer exists. The named ring around Riga carried the higher figure; outside it, two properties could be counted together.
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«30) uz laiku, kas nepārsniedz piecus gadus, ja viņam ir pakārtotās saistības ar Latvijas Republikas kredītiestādi ne mazāk kā 280 000 euro apmērā un ar šo kredītiestādi slēgtā darījuma termiņš nav mazāks par pieciem gadiem un, pieprasot pirmreizēju termiņuzturēšanās atļauju, viņš samaksā valsts budžetā 25 000 euro;»Our translation - not official
for a period not exceeding five years, if he has subordinated liabilities with a credit institution of the Republic of Latvia of not less than 280 000 euro and the term of the transaction concluded with that credit institution is not less than five years and, in requesting a first temporary residence permit, he pays 25 000 euro into the State budget;
Known to be out of date. The repealed 2002 Act as it stood on 20 May 2026. The ground has no counterpart in the Act in force.
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«10\. Ārzemnieks, kuram piešķirta termiņuzturēšanās atļauja saskaņā ar Imigrācijas likuma (pieņemts 2002. gada 31. oktobrī) 23. panta pirmās daļas 29. vai 30. punktu, un viņa ģimenes locekļi, kuri pēc šīs termiņuzturēšanās atļaujas reģistrācijas termiņa vai piešķirto uzturēšanās tiesību termiņa beigām vēlas turpināt uzturēties Latvijas Republikā tā paša uzturēšanās iemesla dēļ, iesniedz dokumentus atkārtotas termiņuzturēšanās atļaujas pieprasīšanai uz laiku līdz pieciem gadiem.»Our translation - not official
A foreigner granted a temporary residence permit under point 29 or point 30 of the first paragraph of article 23 of the Imigrācijas likums (adopted on 31 October 2002), and his family members, who after the registration period of that temporary residence permit or the end of the period of the residence rights granted wish to continue staying in the Republic of Latvia on the same ground of residence, submit documents for requesting a repeat temporary residence permit for a period of up to five years.
The whole of what is left of the property and bank routes: a five-year continuation for people already on them, conditional on the investment still qualifying and on a payment of 1000 EUR for each year of the previous and the new permit.
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Practical notes
The closure is a repeal of an Act rather than the deletion of a ground, which is why no amending instrument names the property route: transitional provision 1 repeals the 2002 Act in its entirety and article 27 of the new Act is written from scratch.
Transitional provision 4 keeps the old Act alive for applications already filed: documents submitted for a visa or a temporary residence permit before 15 September 2026 are examined, and the permits issued, under the 2002 Act.
Payments under points 10 and 36 go to the State basic budget programme Ekonomikas attīstības programma under article 30, are one-off, and are not refunded except in cases the Cabinet sets.
Articles 27(7) and 27(8) close point 10 to Belarusian and Russian citizens and point 36 to both; article 27(8) also closes point 11, the start-up route, to Russian citizens.
- consolidatesImigrācijas likums (2026)
Likumi.lv - VSIA "Latvijas Vēstnesis" · consolidated to 2026-09-15
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