Sri Lanka.
How Sri Lanka sells residence for investors (golden visa): 1 residence programme, open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
2 documents and articles behind this page, listed at the bottom.
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Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later. Sri Lanka: 1 residence programme, open today; 0 numbers, 9 prices and rules. Every country's residence programmes
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Sri Lanka Golden Paradise Visa (Golden Paradise Residence Visa Program; 10-year residence visa for investors with a foreign-currency deposit)
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Deposit of at least US$200,000 in a licensed Sri Lankan bank (Immigration Department page, 2026); up to half may be withdrawn after the first year. The 2022 circular that started the scheme asked for US$100,000, with US$50,000 kept from the second year (t-921e9b854c); when and how it rose to US$200,000 was not found. Fee excluded (US$2,000 per person for the 10-year visa).
Notes from the research
Run by the Department of Immigration and Emigration under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act. Founding text is internal circular 01/2022/VISA of 25 May 2022 (no in-force date stated, so launched = circular date): deposit of US$100,000 in a Golden Paradise account at a licensed bank, US$50,000 to be kept from the second year, 10-year visa for the investor, spouse and children under 16, visa fee US$200 per person per year (US$2,000 for 10 years); the money may be used for approved investments, condominium purchase, leases or Sri Lanka Development Bonds. The current official page asks for US$200,000 with up to 50% withdrawable after a year; the date and instrument of that increase were not found. No official counts found.
Prices and rules
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
- Sri Lanka Golden Paradise Visa (Golden Paradise Residence Visa Program; 10-year residence visa for investors with a foreign-currency deposit): we found no published numbers at all, only rules and events.
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 2 documents behind this page
- 2026 · GovernmentGolden Paradise Residence Visa Program - Invest, Live and Study in Sri Lanka · Department of Immigration and Emigration, Sri Lanka
- 2022-05 · GovernmentGolden Paradise Visa Programme (Internal circular no: 01/2022/VISA) · Department of Immigration and Emigration, Sri Lanka
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