No Investor Permit: the Only Money Threshold in the Whole Scheme Belongs to Your Employer, and Self-Employment Has to Wait a Year
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.
154 exceptions recorded across 56 countries · none match Venezuela to Slovenia · Residency through investment
There is no route into Slovenia by investing. The purposes in article 35(1) of ZTuj-2 and the categories in article 35(2) are both closed lists, and neither has an investor, an entrepreneur or a holder of government bonds on it. A person who wants to run a business here has two doors, and both are slow. Article 37.b of ZTuj-2 issues a single permit for work as a self-employed person, but only after a year of continuous lawful residence unless the applicant is already entered in the business register as carrying on an independent profession, and article 15(2) of ZZSDT says the same in the employment statute. The only capital figure anywhere in the scheme is in article 17(2) of ZZSDT, and it is a condition on an employer rather than on a migrant: a company registered for less than six months can satisfy the active-trading test by having invested at least 50,000 EUR in the activity the worker will be employed in. That is a solvency proxy for hiring, not a residence right for the person who put the money in.
At a glance
- An investor permit
- None among the purposes in article 35(1) or the categories in article 35(2) of ZTuj-2
Both lists were read in full. The categories of single permit in articles 37 to 45.e are all about work, study, research, posting or family.
- Self-employment
- Opens after one year of continuous lawful residence
Article 37.b(1) of ZTuj-2 and article 15(2) of ZZSDT, which state the same waiting period in two statutes.
- The only capital figure
- 50,000 EUR, and it is a test on the employer
Article 17(2) of ZZSDT, which lets a company registered for less than six months show that investment instead of six months of trading.
- Capital required of a migrant
- None stated in ZTuj-2 or in ZZSDT
Neither Act sets an amount a foreign national must bring. The 50,000 EUR in article 17(2) of ZZSDT is money the employer has already spent.
Requirements
- To be self-employed: one year of continuous lawful residence first, under article 37.b(1) of ZTuj-2
- Or to be entered in the business register as a person carrying on an independent profession, which is the only exception article 15(3) of ZZSDT allows
- The conditions in article 33(3) of ZTuj-2, which every permit shares
Country-level policy
Article 33(3) of ZTuj-2 is the provision that every other residence article points back to. It asks for a travel document whose validity runs at least three months beyond the intended stay; health insurance covering at least emergency services in Slovenia; and means of at least the basic amount of minimum income each month, or that subsistence be otherwise assured. For a permanent residence permit the travel document need only be valid. The same paragraph lists what may be shown as means - earnings, rights from employment or insurance excluding reimbursed expenses, income from property, income from capital and other sources, support from those legally obliged to maintain you, a scholarship, or funds in an account at a bank or savings bank in Slovenia or abroad - and that list is what makes the test satisfiable from abroad. The figure itself is not in ZTuj-2. Article 8(1) of ZSVarPre sets the basic amount of minimum income at 392.75 EUR and provides for it to be adjusted, and the government's decision of 24 February 2026 puts it at 507.43 EUR from 1 March 2026.
Article 34(2) of ZTuj-2 states the default plainly: a foreign national must obtain the first temporary residence permit before entering the country, unless the Act provides otherwise. Article 34(3) lets the application be lodged at a Slovene mission abroad, or at the competent authority in Slovenia where the applicant is already lawfully resident or where the Act so provides. The first permit is issued with a validity of up to two years unless the Act says otherwise, and it is served in person. The exceptions are worth knowing because they are the only ways to turn a visit into a stay: a person of Slovene descent to the second degree may apply inside Slovenia within the ninety days under article 48(8); a digital nomad lawfully present on a passport, another member state's permit or a C or D visa may apply here under article 51.a(2); and a long-term resident of another member state and their family may apply here under article 48(3). In each case a certificate of the lodged application counts as a permit until the decision is final.
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
«Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje se izda tujcu, ki namerava v Republiki Sloveniji prebivati iz naslednjih namenov: – zaposlitve ali dela; – združitve družine; – študija, izobraževanja, strokovnega izpopolnjevanja, praktičnega usposabljanja, specializacije ali sodelovanja v mednarodnih študijskih izmenjavah; – opravljanja prostovoljskega dela in sodelovanja v projektih prostovoljske službe v okviru programa Evropske unije; – drugih upravičenih in z zakonom, mednarodnimi akti ali mednarodnimi načeli in običaji utemeljenih razlogov ali zaradi interesa Republike Slovenije.»The closed list of purposes, which has no investment on it.
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«Tujcu, ki želi prebivati v Republiki Sloveniji zaradi opravljanja dela kot samozaposlena oseba, se lahko izda enotno dovoljenje zaradi opravljanja dela kot samozaposlena oseba po enoletnem neprekinjenem zakonitem prebivanju v Republiki Sloveniji, razen če gre za tujca, ki je vpisan v poslovni register kot oseba, ki bo opravljala samostojno poklicno dejavnost, če izpolnjuje pogoje iz tretjega odstavka 33. člena tega zakona, če pristojni organ po zakonu, ki ureja zaposlovanje in delo tujcev, poda soglasje k izdaji enotnega dovoljenja in ne obstajajo razlogi za zavrnitev izdaje dovoljenja iz prve, druge, tretje, četrte, pete, šeste, sedme, devete, desete ali enajste alinee prvega odstavka 55. člena tega zakona.»The year of prior residence, and the one exception to it.
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«V postopku izdaje ali podaljšanja enotnega dovoljenja zaradi samozaposlitve tujca soglasje zavoda ni potrebno. (2) Tujec se lahko samozaposli po enoletnem neprekinjenem zakonitem prebivanju v Republiki Sloveniji. (3) Pogoj enoletnega predhodnega prebivanja iz prejšnjega odstavka ne velja za tujca, ki je vpisan v poslovni register kot oseba, ki bo opravljala samostojno poklicno dejavnost.»Known to be out of date. ZZSDT-D (Uradni list RS, št. 42/23) and ZZSDT-E (Uradni list RS, št. 32/25) were enacted after this official consolidation. ZZSDT-E was read and is cited separately; ZZSDT-D was read only for the list of articles it changes.
The same rule in the employment statute, where the exception is spelt out as a separate paragraph.
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«V primeru delodajalcev, ki so registrirani manj kot šest mesecev, se pogoj iz 4. točke prejšnjega odstavka šteje za izpolnjen, če je delodajalec pred vložitvijo vloge investiral najmanj 50.000 eurov v dejavnost, v okviru katere bo tujec opravljal delo.»Known to be out of date. ZZSDT-D (Uradni list RS, št. 42/23) and ZZSDT-E (Uradni list RS, št. 32/25) were enacted after this official consolidation. ZZSDT-E was read and is cited separately; ZZSDT-D was read only for the list of articles it changes.
The only capital sum in the scheme. It qualifies a young employer to hire, and confers nothing on whoever invested.
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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Practical notes
Read off articles 35 to 53 of ZTuj-2 as officially consolidated on 18 June 2025, which is the complete catalogue of residence permits, and off ZZSDT as officially consolidated on 20 May 2021 with ZZSDT-E checked for changes to article 17.
The comparison with the neighbours is sharp. Czechia has a long-term residence permit for investment with a threshold of 75,000,000 CZK written into a government regulation; Slovenia has nothing of the kind, and the nearest thing in its statute book is a hiring condition.
Article 51(3) of ZTuj-2 allows a permit of up to five years where the government decides by resolution that a person's residence is in the interest of the Republic. That is a discretionary channel opened by a ministry, not an investment route, and we did not read any instrument setting criteria for it.
- issuesZakon o tujcih (uradno prečiščeno besedilo) (ZTuj-2-UPB15)
Uradni list Republike Slovenije · consolidated to 2025-06-18
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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- issuesZakon o zaposlovanju, samozaposlovanju in delu tujcev (uradno prečiščeno besedilo) (ZZSDT-UPB4)
Uradni list Republike Slovenije · consolidated to 2021-05-20
Known to be out of date. ZZSDT-D (Uradni list RS, št. 42/23) and ZZSDT-E (Uradni list RS, št. 32/25) were enacted after this official consolidation. ZZSDT-E was read and is cited separately; ZZSDT-D was read only for the list of articles it changes.
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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