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A 10-year residence and work permit for an applicant, spouse, dependants and household staff in return for a non-refundable USD 250,000 contribution to the COVID-19 Projects Development Fund (Immigration Act s. 9CA, inserted by the Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021; Immigration Act 2022 s. 14). The criteria were restated in the Finance Act 2025. Act 13 of 2026 (in force 13 Aug 2026) repealed them (EDB Act First Schedule Part II) and repealed Section F (s. 14) of the Immigration Act 2022, ending the permit. No figures on permits issued or money raised were found. launched is the Act's assent and Gazette date (Government Gazette No. 121 of 5 August 2021): the commencement section (s. 97) sets no other date for s. 37, so no separate in-force date is stated.

Announced in the 2026/27 Budget and run by the Economic Development Board with the Passport and Immigration Office. The applicant signs an undertaking to invest at least USD 1 million in a qualifying sector (financial services, fintech, ICT, tourism, manufacturing, healthcare, education, renewable energy, blue economy, creative and knowledge-based industries) within 12 months of the visa being issued, and shows a bank balance of USD 1 million; he and his spouse and children get a multi-entry visa valid up to two years, renewable, with no processing fee and a five-working-day target. Once the USD 1 million is invested in a qualifying business activity within the 12 months, the holder can apply for a Permanent Residence Permit; failure can lead to cancellation or non-renewal. Holders may buy residential property under the IRS, RES, PDS and Smart City schemes. launched is the month of the EDB guidelines (August 2026), the earliest official operating text found; no regulation or Finance Act provision is cited, and the press (Bloomberg, Fortune, May 2026) reported the plan, including a target of 100 investors a year, which was not found in an official text. Status active: the EDB guidelines describe the application process as open on NELS. No counts. Separate from the older investor occupation permit and property-purchase residence (mus-investor-permit, mus-property-residence).

Combined work and residence permit for a non-citizen investing in a Mauritian business (Immigration Act 1970 s. 9A from 1 Oct 2006; now Immigration Act 2022 s. 12; criteria in the First Schedule to the EDB Act). Minimum USD 100,000 before 2020, USD 50,000 from 2020, both USD 50,000 and USD 100,000 options from Aug 2025, USD 100,000 only from Aug 2026, with turnover targets. Valid 10 years since 2020 (3 years before). Permanent residence (20 years) after 5 years (3 before Aug 2025) with turnover of MUR 15 million a year; a direct permanent-residence route for an investment of USD 500,000, cut to USD 375,000 in 2020, was dropped in 2025; from Aug 2026 golden visa holders investing USD 1 million qualify. EDB reported 918 active investor occupation permits on 30 June 2021.

Buying qualifying residential property gives the buyer, spouse and dependants a residence permit for as long as the property is held, and the right to work or invest without an occupation permit. Threshold USD 375,000 since the Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 (earlier USD 500,000 for RES, PDS and Smart City Scheme; IRS ownership gave residence with no price set in the Act as consolidated to 2009, while the Board of Investment's December 2007 IRS guidelines set IRS units at above USD 500,000 and grant the residence permit under reg. 22(1) of the IRS Regulations 2007). Senior-living PDS property above USD 200,000 for buyers over 50 since 2023. Approved by the Economic Development Board; now Immigration Act 2022 s. 8. EDB processing fee Rs 25,000 per property application (GN 69 of 2024). Start date not established: the Integrated Resort Scheme is older than the 2007 Real Estate Development Scheme Regulations (in operation 29 Nov 2007, which 'amended' the IRS and added the RES), but the original IRS regulations (reportedly 2002) and the Immigration Act amendment that first gave IRS owners resident status were not found; the Immigration Act as consolidated to 2011 shows s. 5 amended in 2002 (Act 20 of 2002, w.e.f. 1 Sep 2002), 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 without saying which amendment added the IRS paragraph. A path to permanent residence (20 years) exists only for other permit categories; citizenship by naturalisation normally needs 5 of 7 years' residence plus 12 months (Citizenship Act s. 9). EDB published 286 residential acquisition authorisations in FY2020/21; no count of residence permits issued under the schemes was found.

Not a citizenship-by-investment programme with a price: the Minister may, at discretion, accept 2 years' continuous residence instead of the normal requirement (12 months immediately before plus 5 of the previous 7 years) for a person who has invested at least MUR 3 million (1995) or USD 500,000 'or such other sum as may be prescribed' (1999). The 1995 Act replaced an earlier version of s. 9(3) whose terms were not read. Applicants had to renounce other nationalities (s. 9(4) in the 2003 consolidation). A proposed USD 1 million citizenship scheme in the 2018-19 budget was not legislated. Current text and any use figures were not found. launched is the assent date of Act No. 24 of 1995 (23 August 1995): the Act came into force on a day fixed by Proclamation, which is not in any stored document.