Barbados.
How Barbados sells residence for investors (golden visa): 1 residence programme, open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
7 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. Barbados: 1 residence programme, open today; 0 numbers, 16 prices and rules. Every country's residence programmes
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Special Entry and Reside Permit
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Official name: Barbados Special Entry and Reside Permit (SERP)
Not determinable from official sources. The only amount (US$2m investment plus US$5m net worth, Category 1) comes from a business magazine, and the notes mention a cheaper Category 2 (US$300,000 real estate) with no term row. No official text with thresholds was found.
Notes from the research
Long-term or indefinite residence permit granted by varying permission to stay under s.13(3) of the Immigration Act, Cap. 190. According to practitioner sources (not confirmed officially): Category 1 for investors of US$2m with net worth over US$5m (with work permit eligibility); Category 2 for owners of US$300,000 of real estate (5-year renewable, indefinite from age 60). Launch date and legal instrument not found. Listed by the OECD in 2018 as potentially high-risk for CRS avoidance. No counts found.
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What is measured
No published numbers found for this programme. That is itself worth knowing: see the notes and the documents below.
What we know is missing
- Special Entry and Reside Permit: we found no published numbers at all, only rules and events.
- 5 not yet read; what remains is listed in the coverage file.
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.
What happened, and when
The 7 documents behind this page
- 2025-01 · NewsMaking Residency a Reality in Barbados · Business Barbados
- 2023 · Government2023 Investment Climate Statements: Barbados · U.S. Department of State
- 2018-10 · International organisationResidence/Citizenship by investment schemes (list of potentially high-risk CBI/RBI schemes) · OECD
- 2015-06 · GovernmentPresentation of the Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals 2015, delivered by the Hon. Christopher P. Sinckler to the House of Assembly, Monday June 15, 2015 · Government of Barbados (Parliament of Barbados website)
- 2015-02 · IndustryBarbados: Mapping The Future · IFC Review
- 2012-06 · IndustryTax Newsflash/Barbados, June 26, 2012: Highlights of the 2012 Barbados Budget · KPMG (Barbados)
- · GovernmentRequirements for Special Entry Permit · Barbados Immigration Department (Prime Minister's Office - Defence & Security)
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