Zambia.

A foreigner who invests the prescribed financial or capital contribution in a business (or holds a ZDA investment licence, or joins an existing business with a ZDA clearance letter) can get an investor's permit (Immigration and Deportation Act 2010 s. 29, in force 17 Sep 2010); after more than three years on it he may get a residence permit (permanent residence). The Act leaves the amount to be prescribed; the Department of Immigration's current permit page (and its 2017 guide) requires proof of personal investment of US$250,000 for a new business and US$150,000 to join an existing company. No regulation setting these amounts was found. Fees: issuance 40,000 fee units under SI 113 of 2021 (from 1 Jan 2022); ZMW 16,000 issuance and ZMW 20,000 renewal since 19 Aug 2024. Status active: the department's current pages list the permit with its requirements and fees, and ZambiaLII (capture of 4 Nov 2025) shows the 2010 Act as amended in 2016 as the latest version. The separate entitlement in the ZDA Act 2006 s. 65(1) (an investor of at least USD 250,000 employing a minimum of two hundred persons, as printed, entitled to a self-employment or residence permit) ended when the Zambia Development Agency Act 2022 (Act 17, s. 23) repealed the 2006 Act with effect from 13 Jan 2023; the Investment, Trade and Business Development Act 2022, which took over investment licensing from the same date, has no immigration provision. 'launched' left empty: the ZDA Act 2006's commencement instrument is not stored (19 May 2006, the date under its long title, is kept as a 'legal' event), and the earlier Investment Act 1993 (Cap. 385, repealed by the ZDA Act 2006) and the Immigration and Deportation Act 1965 were not read, so the first text tying an investment to residence is not established. No official counts found.