Where you can move by investing if your passport is from Sweden

Investing Your Way into Antigua and Barbuda

National Development Fund contribution:

US$230,000

Higher education contribution:

US$260,000 for a family

Real estate purchase price:

US$300,000

Investing Your Way In

Investor residency category:

None

Investment route to citizenship:

Yes, with no residence period

Who defines the threshold:

Ministry of Economy

The investment programme closed on 31 July 2024, and what replaced it is not an investment visa

Date the investment programme closed:

31 July 2024, for every entry stream of Subclass 188

Open route based on investing money:

None: the only investment class in Schedule 1 to the Migration Regulations 1994 is Business Skills (Provisional) (Class EB), and each of its entry streams requires the application to have been made before 31 July 2024

First instalment charge that applied to the Significant Investor stream:

$18,335 base application charge for an applicant not holding a Pacific-regional country passport

No Investor Permit and No Threshold. The Nearest Thing Is a Start-up Founder Scored on Points

An investor title:

No such title in the list in NAG § 8 Abs. 1

Minimum investment stated anywhere in the NAG:

No figure in the settlement chapter of the Act

The nearest permit for self-employment:

Niederlassungsbewilligung under NAG § 43 Abs. 2

Investing Your Way into Barbados

Citizenship by investment:

None. No provision of the Constitution or of any instrument we read confers citizenship for an investment

Statutory test for immigrant status through business:

Established successfully, or likely to establish successfully, in a profession, trade, business or agricultural enterprise

Minimum investment the Act or Regulations state:

None

No Investor Permit and No Amount; a Professional Card, Which Two Regions Have Already Abolished

An investor permit, or any investment figure:

None named in article 9 or article 10 of the Act of 15 December 1980

What a self-employed foreigner needs:

A professional card

What counts as self-employed there:

Any activity not caught by the rules on employing foreign workers

Residence by Investment in Belize

Investment threshold:

BZ$500,000.00

Status granted:

Temporary residence, one (1) year, renewable yearly

Annual fee:

One fifth of the permanent residence fee for your nationality

Residency Through Investment

Investor residency category:

None

Minimum investment:

None published

Multiple visa validity:

1 year, renewable for similar periods

Residency Through Investment

Investment in a Brazilian company:

R$ 500.000,00

Innovation, basic or applied research venture:

R$ 150.000,00

Term on the company route:

Indefinite

The Passport Went in 2022 and the Permit Stayed: Six Investment Routes, Two of Them Straight to Permanent Residence

Citizenship by investment:

Abolished: articles 12a and 14a of the Citizenship Act were repealed by ДВ бр. 26 от 2022 г.

Real estate, one-year permit:

600,000 leva per foreigner

Disadvantaged region, one-year permit:

250,000 leva, plus 250,000 leva of new assets and 5 jobs

A Class With No Figure in It: Somebody Else Has to Back You First

Minimum investment:

Not in the Regulations - the Minister establishes it

Language:

Benchmark level 5 in all four skills

Settlement funds:

Half the Statistics Canada low income cut-off for a group your size

Temporary Residency for Investors and Related Staff

Investment threshold:

USD 500,000, or the equivalent in another currency

What the money must be for:

Producing goods or services

Who must sponsor you:

InvestChile, the foreign investment promotion agency

Migrant Visa (M) for Investors

Direct investment threshold:

More than 650 monthly minimum wages

Property threshold:

At least 350 monthly minimum wages

Registration:

With the Banco de la República

Investor Residency at US$150,000, on a Footing That Is No Longer Simple

Minimum investment:

US$150,000

Previous minimum investment:

US$200.000.00

Status granted:

Temporary residency for 2 years, renewable for equal periods

Fifty-One Per Cent of a Croatian Company Gets You Past the Labour Market Test, and Not One Article Prices the Investment

Shareholding for the self-employment permit:

At least 51 per cent

Capital or investment threshold:

None in articles 110, 111 or 115 of the Zakon o strancima, which name no sum at all

Labour market test:

Not carried out for any of these three categories

Residency Through Investment and Business

Minimum investment:

None stated in any instrument read

Temporary residence subclassification:

Investors and businesspeople

Maximum temporary residence:

5 years

A Three-Hundred-Thousand-Euro Route Built Entirely on a Residual Discretion in a Regulation of 1972

Minimum investment:

EUR 300,000

Income on top of the investment:

EUR 50,000 a year, plus EUR 15,000 for a spouse and EUR 10,000 per dependent minor child

Legal basis:

Regulation 6(2) of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations, the residual discretion

Seventy-Five Million Crowns and Twenty Jobs, Both of Them in a Government Regulation Rather Than the Act, and the Only Route With No Queue

Money:

At least 75,000,000 CZK invested in Czechia

Jobs:

At least 20 new jobs in Czechia

How much may be property rather than money:

Up to 60 per cent

No Investment Threshold Anywhere: the Only Business Route Is a Panel Reading Your Plan, Inside a Quota of Seventy-Five a Year

Investment threshold:

None stated in section 9 a of the Aliens Act

Annual quota:

75

Who decides the plan is good enough:

An independent expert panel appointed by the Danish Business Authority

Investing Your Way into Dominica

Investor residence permit:

None

Residence required for citizenship by investment:

None in practice

Direct monetary investment, main applicant:

US$200,000

Residence by Investment: US$200,000 and a Certificate

Minimum investment:

US$200,000

Designated investment projects:

Figure set by the executive

Temporary residence stage:

Skipped

The Investor Visa: One Hundred Minimum Wages

Investment threshold:

100 minimum wages - USD 48,200 in 2026^CALC (calculated by us, not published)

Term deposit:

At least 730 days, dematerialised

Property:

Sole ownership, or a share worth at least 100 minimum wages

Residence by Investment, and What the Bitcoin Programme Actually Rests On

Shareholder threshold:

USD 10,000 subscribed and paid

Sole trader threshold:

USD 2,500 in business assets

Investor category threshold:

None stated in the law

65,000 Euros Into Share Capital, 16,000 for a Sole Trader, a Million for a Large Investor - and the Large Investor Need Not Live Here

Shareholder threshold:

65,000 euros into the share capital of an Estonian company

Sole trader threshold:

16,000 euros of capital invested in Estonia

Large investor threshold:

1,000,000 euros of direct investment

No Investment Amount Anywhere, and the Decision Is Split in Two: a Regional Agency Judges the Business and the Immigration Service Grants the Permit

Minimum investment:

None in sections 79, 79 a, 80, 80 a or 80 b of the Aliens Act

Who decides the business question:

The elinvoimakeskus, by a partial decision binding on the Immigration Service

Growth entrepreneur test:

A Business Finland statement that the business model and the team meet its early-stage funding criteria

300,000 Euros, Jobs Within Four Years, and the Card Is Withdrawn If Nothing Has Started After One

The card:

Carte de séjour pluriannuelle "talent-porteur de projet", maximum four years

How much to invest:

At least 300,000 euros in tangible or intangible fixed assets

What else the investment must do:

Create or save jobs in France within the four years following the investment

USD 300,000, Then a Turnover Test Every Year for Five - and Property Buyers Are Tested Differently From Investors

Investment threshold:

USD 300 000 equivalent in GEL

Property threshold for the investment permit:

Market value above USD 300 000 equivalent in GEL, agricultural land excluded

Term of the investment permit:

5 years

No Price on the Door - a Business Plan Judged by People Who Know the Trade

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

Eight Hundred Thousand in Athens, Four Hundred Elsewhere, One Property Only, and Letting It Out by the Night Costs You the Permit

Threshold in Attica, Thessaloniki, Mykonos, Thira and islands over 3,100 people:

800,000 euro

Threshold everywhere else:

400,000 euro

How many properties:

One, in both bands

Investing Your Way into Grenada

Investor residence permit outside the investment citizenship statute:

None

Permanent residence first:

No longer required

Days of residence before citizenship:

None

Residence in Guatemala Through Investment

Investment required:

100,000 dollars

Status granted:

Temporary residence

Maximum term:

5 years

Investing in Guyana Buys No Residence and No Passport

Minimum investment for residence:

None; there is no investment-based residence route

Citizenship by investment:

None. The Constitution and the Citizenship Act between them provide birth, descent, marriage, registration and naturalisation, and nothing else

Land ownership by a foreigner:

Permitted, on the same footing as a Commonwealth citizen

Investing in Haiti: No Residence by Investment, but Shares Buy an Exemption from the Work Permit

Residence by investment:

None found

Work permit exemption for shareholders:

Yes, in new undertakings

Dwelling houses a resident foreigner may own:

One per arrondissement

Investing Your Way to Honduran Residence

Investment threshold:

USD 50,000

Guarantee deposit:

USD 5,000

Guarantee returned:

Within 1 year of proving the investment

The Guest Investor Route Is Still Open and the Option Everyone Still Quotes Is Shut: Buying a 500,000 Euro Home Was Removed From the Act at the Turn of 2024

Fund investment:

At least 250,000 EUR of units in a real-estate fund registered by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank

Donation alternative:

At least 1,000,000 EUR to a higher education institution maintained by a public-interest asset management foundation

Residential property option:

Removed: the 500,000 EUR purchase is no longer in section 16(3) of Act XC of 2023

There Is No Investor Permit and No Self-Employment Permit: Working for Yourself in Iceland Is Prohibited Unless You Are Exempt From Needing a Work Permit at All

Investor residence permit:

None in chapters VI to X of the Aliens Act, and no investment amount anywhere in either statute

Self-employment:

Prohibited unless you are exempt from the work-permit requirement

Who may be self-employed:

Nationals of the EEA states, the EFTA states and the Faroe Islands, and the other statuses listed in section 22

A Programme Closed in 2023, and a Page That Still Describes It as Open

The Immigrant Investor Programme:

Closed to further applications from 15 February 2023

A statutory investor class:

None in the Immigration Act 2004, which prescribes no classes at all

What it asked for, while open:

Personal wealth of at least €2 million and an investment of at least €1 million

Two Million in Government Bonds, or One Million Given Away

Government securities:

At least EUR 2,000,000, held for at least two years

Philanthropic donation:

At least EUR 1,000,000 to a project of public interest

The quota:

Does not apply

Investing your way into Jamaica

Citizenship by investment:

None

Residence by investment:

None

Routes to citizenship Parliament has created:

Four, all resting on residence, descent or marriage

Business Manager: Thirty Million Yen, a Staff Member and a Japanese Speaker

Status of residence:

Business Manager (経営・管理)

Capital or assets required:

30,000,000 yen

Employees required:

At least one, full-time and resident in Japan

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

Residence by buying property:

No such ground in article 27(1) of the Imigrācijas likums of 2026

Company investment, small company:

50 000 EUR, plus 10 000 EUR to the State budget

Company investment, larger company:

100 000 EUR, plus 10 000 EUR to the State budget

No Investor Route, and Property Is Not the Way In Either

Investment-based residence route:

None in the Personenfreizügigkeitsgesetz or the Ausländergesetz

The nearest thing:

The special-interest permit of AuG article 20, defined by standing rather than by money

Buying land:

Needs approval from the Grundverkehrsbehörde in every case

Three Price Tiers for a Business Permit, and the Cheapest One Costs 14,000 Euro of Your Own Money

Entry tier equity:

28,000 euro, of which at least 14,000 is yours

Entry tier payroll:

Monthly wages totalling at least 2 average monthly gross wages

How long the company must have traded:

At least 6 months before you apply

Four Amounts, One of Them Twenty Million, and Property Is Excluded by Name

Into an existing company:

At least 500,000 euros, with the investment and an equivalent headcount held for at least five years

Into a company to be created:

At least 500,000 euros, with five jobs created within three years

Into an investment and management structure:

At least 3,000,000 euros, with appropriate substance kept in Luxembourg

Sixty Thousand in Fees Before the Thirty-Seven-Thousand Contribution, and a Certificate That Confers No Right to Work

Contribution:

€37,000, the same whether the property is owned or rented

Non-refundable administration fee, main applicant:

€60,000

Non-refundable administration fee, each dependant:

€7,500

Temporary Residence as an Investor

Status granted:

Temporary residence, up to 4 years

Shareholding test:

Investment actually paid in exceeding 45,850 days of UMA

Fixed-asset test:

Assets exceeding 45,850 days of UMA

No Sum of Money Appears Anywhere in the List

An investor restriction:

None

A sum that buys residence:

None

What is asked instead:

That the work serves an essential Dutch interest in the Minister's judgement

Five Million for Twenty-One Days, or Ten Million for a Hundred and Five - and the Extra Days Can Be Bought Back at a Million Each

Growth Category investment:

NZD $5 million, held for 36 months

Balanced Category investment:

NZD $10 million, held for 60 months

Days in New Zealand, Growth Category:

21, across the 36-month investment period

Investing for Residence in Nicaragua

Minimum investment:

Not stated in the migration law or its regulation

Who certifies the investment:

MIFIC, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade

Status granted:

Permanent residence

There Is No Investor Route and No Threshold to Meet, Because the Only Business Permit Asks for a Trade Qualification Before It Asks for Money

Investor residence permit:

None. The words investor and investering do not appear anywhere in the Immigration Regulation

Minimum investment stated anywhere:

None. Section 6-18 asks for an economic basis, not an amount

First condition of the only business permit:

Skilled-worker competence under section 6-1

Investor Residency and the One Shortcut in the Law

Exemption from the temporary stage:

Yes, for investors under the SUACE regime

Minimum investment:

Not published by the migration directorate

Alternative proof named in the law:

Company incorporation documents, documents evidencing the investment, a bank deposit, or an investment project approved by the competent bodies

Inversionista Residency

Investment threshold:

S/ 500,000.00

Share purchase:

Not accepted as evidence of the investment

Permitted role:

Manager or director of your own company only

No Investment Threshold at All: the Test Is What the Company Earned or Whom It Employed

Minimum investment:

None stated in article 142 of the Ustawa o cudzoziemcach, which tests the company's income or headcount instead

Company income test:

At least 12 times the average monthly gross wage in the voivodeship, in the previous tax year

Employment test, as the alternative:

At least 2 employees, full time and on indefinite contracts, for at least a year

The Investment Permit Survives, and It Is Written Around the Visa Rather Than Through It

Residence visa:

Not required - the article disapplies that condition

What you need instead:

A valid Schengen visa

Deadline to regularise:

90 days from first entry

Money Alone Buys Nothing: Romania Asks for a Hundred Thousand Euro, Ten Jobs Inside Twelve Months, and Then Checks the Business Plan at Every Renewal

Funds you must show up front:

100,000 euro for an SRL, 150,000 euro for an SA

Investment you must then make:

The same amounts, within 12 months of the residence permit

Jobs you must create:

10 for an SRL, 15 for an SA, within 12 months

Investing Your Way into Saint Kitts and Nevis

Investor residence permit:

None

Permanent residence by assets:

7 years of prior residence, then substantial assets

Land held by an unlicensed alien:

Forfeited to the Crown

Investing your way into Saint Lucia

National Economic Fund, applicant with up to three dependants:

US$240,000

National Economic Fund as the revised edition prints it:

US$100,000

Approved real estate project:

US$300,000

Investing Your Way into Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Investor residence permit:

None

Citizenship by investment:

No Act

Land purchase by a foreigner:

Requires an alien's land holding licence

Fifty Thousand Euros in a Serbian Bank Buys Six Months, and Five Thousand Paid In Buys a Year

First permit, investor:

Six months

First permit, startup founder:

One year

Money at the first application:

At least EUR 50,000 in an account at a bank registered in Serbia, or the equivalent in dinars or another foreign currency

A Hundred Times the Subsistence Minimum in a Separate Business Account - Under Thirty Thousand Euros, Against Czechia's Seventy-Five Million Crowns

Dedicated investment permit:

No such purpose in section 21(1) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.

Sole trader:

20 times the subsistence minimum

Acting for a company:

100 times the subsistence minimum

No Investor Permit: the Only Money Threshold in the Whole Scheme Belongs to Your Employer, and Self-Employment Has to Wait a Year

An investor permit:

None among the purposes in article 35(1) or the categories in article 35(2) of ZTuj-2

Self-employment:

Opens after one year of continuous lawful residence

The only capital figure:

50,000 EUR, and it is a test on the employer

Five Hundred Thousand Dollars and Three Years for the Residence Status, Five Hundred Thousand and Five Employees for Permanent Residence

Investment for the residence status F-2, with time:

USD 500,000, plus three years of continuous stay on D-8

Investment for the residence status F-2, with jobs:

USD 300,000, plus two or more Korean nationals employed

Investment for permanent residence:

USD 500,000 and five or more Korean nationals employed

The Golden Visa Is Gone, and the Statute Shows It as Five Empty Articles

Residence by investment:

No longer exists

What was emptied:

The investor visa, the proof of investment, its effects, the residence authorisation and its duration

What remains in the same Act:

The entrepreneur, highly qualified and intra-corporate routes, which are separate chapters

Investment: No Investor Permit, but a Statutory Promise of One Attached to a Fiscal Facility

Investor residence permit:

None

What an investment facility brings:

A permit for residence and settlement of foreign personnel, for their employment, for establishing the undertaking, and for import and export

Qualifying sectors:

Agriculture, livestock, fisheries, aquaculture, mining, forestry, tourism excluding casinos, industry, trade, construction, services and professional transport

Investors Are an Exception to a Qualification Rule, Not a Programme With a Price

Minimum investment:

None stated in article 23 of the Ausländer- und Integrationsgesetz or anywhere in the Verordnung über Zulassung, Aufenthalt und Erwerbstätigkeit

What the provision actually does:

It exempts investors from the rule that only executives, specialists and other qualified workers may be admitted

Conditions that still apply:

Overall economic interest, customary pay and conditions, appropriate housing, and the annual quota

Buying Permanent Residence: One Million Dollars, Held Ten Years, Ninety Days a Year

Qualifying investment:

One million dollars, held for a minimum of ten years

What counts:

Real estate in The Bahamas, or Zero Coupon Bonds issued by the Central Bank of The Bahamas

What does not:

A deed of gift

Buying and Investing in Trinidad and Tobago

Citizenship by investment:

None

Residence by investment:

None

Land for residence without a licence:

Up to 1 acre

There Is No Investor Visa, and the Route That Replaced It Asks for 1,270 Pounds

Investment route for passive capital:

None open. Part 6A paragraph 245E states that the Tier 1 (Investor) route is now closed to new applicants

Entrepreneur route:

None open under that name. Part 6A paragraph 245D(a)(i) states the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category is now closed to new applicants and directs other migrants to Innovator Founder

Minimum investment to enter on the Innovator Founder route:

None in Appendix Innovator Founder. The only financial requirement is funds of at least 1,270 pounds

A Million Dollars and Ten Jobs, or a Treaty and a Business

Share of the employment level:

Up to 7.1 per cent

Jobs required:

Ten full-time, and not the investor's spouse or children

How long the capital stays:

At least two years

Investing Your Way In

Dedicated investor visa:

None

How an investor gets residency:

Ordinary permanent residency, means of support

Investment threshold for residency:

None published

Investing Your Way into Venezuela

Minimum investment:

None stated

Visa validity:

Three years, multiple entries, no limit on length of stay

Extension inside the country:

Up to two further years