Retiring to Venezuela
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Italy 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 Italy to Venezuela · Residency as a retiree
Venezuela has no separate retirement visa. A pension is named inside the category for people of independent means, the TR-RE, in the same breath as any other lawful unearned income, and it is held to the same figure: the equivalent of USD 1,200 a month generated abroad, plus USD 500 a month for each family member travelling with you. A pensioner is not asked for less and is not offered anything extra. The closed list of visa classes in the resolution has no age-related category of any kind.
At a glance
- Separate retirement route
- None
Article 1 of Resolución Conjunta N° 364 sets out the catalogue of visas as a closed list of twelve classes, quoted here. None of them is defined by retirement; a pension is named only inside the rentista class at article 17.
- Category that covers a pension
- Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE)
- Pension required
- USD 1,200 a month, generated abroad
- Per accompanying family member
- USD 500 a month
- Age condition
- None stated
Article 17, quoted here, states a monthly income and nothing else. No article of the resolution attaches an age to the rentista visa.
Requirements
- Proof of a pension of the equivalent of USD 1,200 a month, paid from abroad
- A further USD 500 a month for each accompanying family member
- A passport valid for at least six months, two passport photographs, a medical certificate from the health authority of your country and the consular fee
Country-level policy
The joint resolution that defines every class of Venezuelan visa was made in December 1999 by three ministries, and it says on its face which law it was made under: the Ley de Extranjeros and the Regulation of the Ley de Extranjeros. The Ley de Extranjería y Migración of 2004 repealed the Ley de Extranjeros by name, and required the President to make a regulation of the new Act within sixty days of publication. The foreign ministry and the consulates still publish the 1999 catalogue of visas, visa by visa, with the same codes and in most places the same wording. We did not find a regulation made under the 2004 Act. That matters to a reader because it is why the two sets of rules do not line up: the 1999 text names ministries that no longer exist, lets a business visitor stay 180 days where the Act caps a non-migrant at 90 plus 90, and routes the investor through an authority that has been replaced.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Italy
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
«Se otorgará a personas no migrantes, que vivan de sus rentas lícitas o pensión, con ingreso mensual equivalente a US$ 1.200,oo, generados en el exterior. Cuando viaje acompañado por miembros de su familia deberá comprobar además, poseer ingresos mensuales fijos de US$ 500,oo por cada acompañante.»Our translation - not official
Granted to non-migrants who live on lawful income or a pension, with a monthly income equivalent to US$ 1,200, generated abroad. Where they travel accompanied by family members they must also show fixed monthly income of US$ 500 for each companion.
A pension is named here and nowhere else in the catalogue of visas.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Simple Transeúnte: Es el extranjero que desee ingresar al país con otros fines distintos del turismo y se clasifica en: Transeúnte de Negocios (TR-N) Transeúnte Inversionista (TR-I) Transeúnte Empresario/Industrial (TR-E-I) Transeúnte Familiar Venezolano (TR-FV) Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE) Transeúnte Empleado Doméstico (TR-ED) Transeúnte Estudiante (TR-E),»Our translation - not official
Simple Transient: a foreigner wishing to enter the country for purposes other than tourism, classified into: Transient Business (TR-N), Transient Investor (TR-I), Transient Entrepreneur/Industrialist (TR-E-I), Transient Venezuelan Family Member (TR-FV), Transient Person of Independent Means (TR-RE), Transient Domestic Employee (TR-ED), Transient Student (TR-E),
The list continues with the religious, family, re-entry and labour visas. No category in it is defined by age or by retirement.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Se otorgará a personas no migrantes, que vivan de sus rentas lícitas o pensión, con ingreso mensual equivalente a mil doscientos dólares (USD$ 1.200,00), generados en el exterior.»Our translation - not official
Granted to non-migrants who live on lawful income or a pension, with a monthly income equivalent to one thousand two hundred dollars (USD$ 1,200.00), generated abroad.
About this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
Practical notes
That there is no retirement category is read off the resolution's own list of visa classes, which we read in full, together with the foreign ministry's catalogue of the visas it issues. Both run to the same classes and neither contains one defined by age.
- reportsNormas del Procedimiento para la Expedición de Visado, Resolución Conjunta N° 364 / 165 / 0530, Gaceta Oficial N° 5.427 Extraordinario de 5 de enero de 2000
Justia Venezuela
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
- administersVisa de Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE)
Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores
About this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersTrámites y Servicios Consulares - Visa
Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores
About this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source