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How Bahrain sells residence for investors (golden visa): 1 residence programme, open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.

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11 documents and articles behind this page, listed at the bottom.

Residence

Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later. Bahrain: 1 residence programme, open today; 8 numbers, 60 prices and rules. Every country's residence programmes

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Golden ResidencyResidence

No path to citizenship is stated.

Status
Lowest price for one person
Last change
Residence·Open·since 2022

Golden Residency

Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.

Citizenship. No path to citizenship is stated. (from the research notes below)

Official name: Golden Residency (الإقامة الذهبية)

Lowest price for one person: BHD 130,000

Property worth at least BHD 130,000 (cut from BHD 200,000 on 26 Nov 2025, per an NPRA press release; the legal instrument was not found). Property is the only investment route. Fees excluded: BHD 300 per person, BHD 5 application.

Notes from the research

10-year renewable residence permit created by Minister of Interior Order No. 20 of 2022 (issued 10 Feb 2022; announced as launched on 7 Feb 2022 per the press). launched is the Order's date of issue: the Order comes into force on its publication in the Official Gazette (art. 13), and that publication date is not in a stored document. Categories: owners of property in Bahrain worth at least BHD 200,000 at purchase (cut to BHD 130,000 in November 2025), retirees with BHD 4,000 a month pension, long-serving employees (5 years, BHD 2,000 average salary) and retirees (15 years, BHD 2,000), and talents. Fee BHD 300 per person per 10-year permit (plus BHD 5 application fee now). Holder must be present at least 90 days a year. The property route is the only investment route. A separate 'platinum' residence (PM Resolution 47/2023) is for long-serving golden holders. No path to citizenship is stated. Official counts are press statements covering all categories together.

Prices and rules

Ways in that apply today (minimum amounts)
Fees today

What is measured

  • Long-term ("golden") residence permits issued, all categories4
  • Processing time2
  • Number of nationalities among applicants1
  • Applications received1
Gaps

What we know is missing

  • No yearly figures at all for applications or people let in or money raised.

A gap means no figure is in our data: either it was never published or we haven't found or read it yet. Charts leave gaps open rather than drawing across them.

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All the numbers we have for Bahrain

8 numbers about Bahrain's residence programmes. Pick a programme and what you want to see. Each dot is one number from one document; click anything to open its source.

Timeline

What happened, and when

Sources

The 11 documents behind this page

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