Belarus.
How Belarus sells residence for investors (golden visa): 1 residence programme, open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
4 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. Belarus: 1 residence programme, open today; 1 number, 3 prices and rules. Every country's residence programmes
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Belarus permanent residence permit for foreign investors (Law No. 105-З of 4 January 2010, art. 53)
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Investment of at least 15,000 'base units' gives permanent residence without the usual five years of temporary residence (art. 53, current text). The base unit is an official unit whose rouble value is reset every year, so the money amount changes yearly; it is not converted here. The original 2010 law said EUR 150,000, and the Interior Ministry still gave EUR 150,000 in January 2024 (press interview). Fees excluded.
Notes from the research
Article 53 of the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons lets foreigners who invested in Belarus at least fifteen thousand base units obtain a permanent residence permit without the usual five years of temporary residence. The Interior Ministry's migration head said in January 2024 (Interfax) that EUR 150,000 is the threshold and that 3-4 permits go to investors a year. The original 2010 wording, and when the investor ground and the base-unit threshold were introduced, were not read at first; launched 2010-07-21 is the in-force date of Law 105-Z of 2010 (EUR 150,000 investor ground), from the 2026-10-10 launch-date pass. The 1993 law it replaced was not read, so an earlier start can't be ruled out.
Prices and rules
What is measured
- Golden visas issued1
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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1 numbers about Belarus'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.
What happened, and when
The 4 documents behind this page
- 2024-01 · NewsBelarus doesn't plan to start offering citizenship for investments - Interior Ministry · Interfax
- 2010-01 · Law or regulationЗакон Республики Беларусь от 4 января 2010 г. № 105-З «О правовом положении иностранных граждан и лиц без гражданства в Республике Беларусь» (исходный текст) · National Centre of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus (etalonline.by)
- 2010-01 · Law or regulationЗакон Республики Беларусь от 4 января 2010 г. № 105-З «О правовом положении иностранных граждан и лиц без гражданства в Республике Беларусь» (действующая редакция) · National Centre of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus (etalonline.by)
- · GovernmentИнформация о документе: Закон Республики Беларусь от 4 января 2010 г. № 105-З (Национальный реестр, карточка) · National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus (pravo.by)
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