Compare Golden Visa and residency by investment routes with transparent eligibility, cost and due-diligence guidance.
Bulgarian residence by investment. Citizenship by investment was abolished in April 2022. Bulgaria joined Schengen in full on 1 January 2025 and adopted the euro on 1 January 2026.
Ten provincial entrepreneur and investor routes to Canadian permanent residency, with verified 2026 investment thresholds. Canada's two federal business routes are closed.
Curaçao’s Wealthy Investor permit runs in three tiers — three years, five years and indefinite. Curaçao amended its immigration law in May 2026, and XIPHIAS confirms the current requirements under the 2026 legislation before filing. Naturalisation yields Netherlands nationality with EU citizenship.
Cypriot permanent residence by investment. Cyprus is an EU member but not in Schengen, and its citizenship-by-investment programme was terminated on 1 November 2020.
France has no golden visa. What it has is the multi-year talent card — for founders, innovators and direct investors — and a long-stay visitor permit for people living on their own means. Years on a talent card count towards the five years of residence required for naturalisation.
Germany has no golden visa. Business owners and founders apply for a residence permit for self-employment, judged on their business plan, with no fixed investment amount and settlement possible after three years.
Greece golden visa: €800,000 in Attica, Thessaloniki, Mykonos and Thira, €400,000 elsewhere, €250,000 only for conversions and listed buildings. Schengen access and a 7-year naturalisation route.
Hong Kong CIES at HK$30 million — HK$27m in permissible assets plus HK$3m into the CIES Investment Portfolio — and the talent routes. Permanent residency after seven years, with no effect on Indian citizenship.
Hungary’s Guest Investor Programme: €250,000 into a registered real estate fund or a €1,000,000 university donation, for a 10-year permit extendable by another 10. Direct property purchase does not qualify.
Latvia abolished its property and bank investment routes on 15 September 2026. Only the company share-capital route remains, at €50,000 plus a €10,000 state fee, with a 2-year permit.
Malaysia My Second Home: four federal categories including the Forest City SEZ tier, plus the separate Sarawak-MM2H programme where property purchase is optional. A long-stay visit pass, not a route to citizenship.
Malta Permanent Residence Programme: €60,000 administrative fee, €37,000 government contribution, €2,000 donation, and a qualifying property bought for €375,000 or leased for €14,000 a year, with one threshold for Malta and Gozo.
Mauritius Occupation Permit from USD 100,000 and property residence above USD 375,000. The separate USD 500,000 non-citizen property route gives no residence permit.
Monaco residency has no legally prescribed minimum deposit or investment. The financial test is an attestation from a Monaco bank, and the bank sets the sum it regards as sufficient.
New Zealand investor routes: Active Investor Plus Growth at NZ$5m and Balanced at NZ$10m after the April 2025 rebuild, plus the far cheaper Business Investor Work Visa from NZ$1m.
Panama Qualified Investor Visa: USD 500,000 in real estate or securities, or a USD 750,000 fixed deposit. The USD 300,000 rate was transitional. Panama does not permit dual citizenship.
Five routes into Portuguese residence — the Golden Visa from €250,000, the D7 for passive income, the D8 for remote workers and the D2 for entrepreneurs. Schengen access, family included, permanent residence after five years.
Singapore Global Investor Programme at S$10m, S$25m or a S$200m family office, plus the ONE Pass and Employment Pass routes. Employment Pass thresholds rise again on 1 January 2027.
Switzerland has no residency-by-investment programme and sets no minimum investment for residence. For people who will not work, the route is cantonal lump-sum taxation — abolished in five cantons, with a federal minimum tax base of CHF 434,700 for tax year 2025 that is indexed annually; cantonal minima differ.
UAE golden residence: a 10-year renewable permit from AED 2,000,000 in property. The UAE has no permanent residency, and citizenship is by nomination only — which is why it never affects an Indian passport.
EB-5 investor green cards. The set-aside categories are Current for India as at October 2026 — the only employment-based route with no queue.
Uruguay sets no investment threshold for residency — only sufficient means of living. The investment figures commonly quoted are tax residency thresholds in unidades indexadas, which is a different thing.
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