A free golden visa finder that shows which residence by investment programs your budget covers, what each asks you to buy, and where it leads.
Find the golden visas your budget covers. Enter what you can invest, and see what each program asks you to buy, how long to hold it and where it leads.
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This free golden visa finder shows which golden visas your budget covers, out of 17 open programs, with 4 closed ones kept for the record.
Enter what you can invest. The finder puts every program's minimum in your currency, marks the ones your budget covers, and shows what each asks you to buy, how long to hold it, and where it leads.
Here's what a golden visa is, the entry points, which programs closed, and what to check before you invest.
What is a golden visa?
A golden visa is a residence permit you get for an investment in the country, like property, a fund, a company or government bonds.
It gives you the right to live there, and in some countries permanent residence from the start. Most ask for little time in the country each year, which suits people who want a second base more than a move.
The entry points
Here's what each open program asks, lowest first, on September 27, 2026:
| Country | Program | Smallest investment |
|---|---|---|
 Latvia | Residence permit for investors | €50,000 in a small company, plus €10,000 to the state |
 Malta | Permanent Residence Programme | €97,000 in fees and contribution, plus a home bought or rented |
 Malaysia | Malaysia My Second Home | US$150,000 deposit, plus a home |
 Greece | Golden Visa | €250,000 for conversions and listed buildings, €400,000 or €800,000 otherwise |
 Italy | Investor Visa for Italy | €250,000 in an innovative startup |
 Hungary | Guest investor residence permit | €250,000 in a real estate fund, held 5 years |
 Panama | Qualified Investor | US$300,000 in new real estate |
 Cyprus | Immigration Permit for investors | €300,000, plus €50,000 a year of income |
 Indonesia | Golden Visa | US$350,000 in bonds, shares or deposits |
 Mauritius | Residence for property buyers | Over US$375,000 in a home |
 Thailand | Long-Term Resident: Wealthy Global Citizen | US$500,000, with US$1 million in assets |
 United Arab Emirates | Golden Residency | AED 2 million (about US$545,000) |
 Portugal | Golden residence permit | €500,000 in investment funds |
 United States | EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program | US$800,000 in a targeted area |
 New Zealand | Active Investor Plus | NZ$5 million for 3 years |
 Hong Kong | New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme | HK$30 million |
 Singapore | Global Investor Programme | S$10 million in a business |
The smallest number isn't always the cheapest program. Malta's €97,000 comes on top of a home and €500,000 in assets, and Cyprus asks a yearly income from abroad as well.
Buying property
Property still qualifies in Greece, Latvia, Panama, Cyprus, Mauritius and the UAE. Malaysia and Malta ask for a home on top of their deposit or fees.
Greece raised its bar in 2024: €800,000 in greater Athens, greater Thessaloniki, Mykonos, Santorini and islands of over 3,100 people, and €400,000 elsewhere, for one home of at least 120 m², which can't be rented out short term.
Portugal dropped real estate in October 2023. Its golden visa now takes investment funds, company capital, research, culture or job creation.
Which golden visas closed
| Country | Program | Closed |
|---|---|---|
 Spain | Residence for investors | April 3, 2025 |
 Australia | Business Innovation and Investment Program | July 31, 2024 |
 Ireland | Immigrant Investor Programme | February 15, 2023 |
 United Kingdom | Tier 1 (Investor) visa | February 17, 2022 |
People who already hold them can usually renew, and applications filed before the date are still decided.
Where each one leads
7 of the 17 lead to permanent residence: Malta and Cyprus from the start, Panama and Singapore on approval, the US EB-5 through a green card, New Zealand's resident visa, and Portugal under its Aliens Law.
The time you must spend in the country varies. Portugal asks 7 days in the first year and 14 in each 2 years after, New Zealand 21 days over 3 years, and Malaysia 90 days a year.
How to use the golden visa finder
To see what a program's passport would add to yours if it leads to citizenship, use the second passport calculator.
Before you invest
- Read the program's official page, not only an agent's summary
- Check how long you must hold the investment, and what happens if you sell
- Check the days you must spend in the country, and whether they make you a tax resident
- Get advice from a lawyer licensed in that country before you pay anyone
Days in a country add up to tax residence fast, so count them with the 183-day rule calculator. I wrote about building a life across countries in what is a global citizen, and more of it is under global citizen.
Money can't buy freedom, but a lack of it will take your freedom away.
Where the data comes from
Every program's facts come from its government's own page: the immigration office, the ministry, the consulate, or the program's official site. Each program lists those pages, with the date they were read.
Agent and law firm sites help find the official page, and are never the source. When a government page doesn't state a figure, the program shows no amount rather than a guess.
Amounts in your currency use the European Central Bank's daily reference rates, the official pegs of currencies like the UAE dirham and the Eastern Caribbean dollar, and Colombia's official peso rate, so they're close, not exact.
Rules change often, so check the official page before you apply. It's information, not legal, tax or immigration advice.
Who is the golden visa finder for?
It's for investors, founders and families who want a second home base, and each of them has a next step:
- Citizenship by investment comparison – investors who want a passport, not only residence
- Second passport calculator – families weighing which citizenship a residence could lead to
- 183-day rule calculator – founders keeping their tax residence where they want it
- Digital nomad visa finder – remote workers who'd rather qualify on income than invest
- What is a global citizen? – anyone building a life across borders, in my own words
More tools for the road are on the free travel tools page.
Golden Visa Finder FAQs
Questions about golden visas? Here's what to know.
A golden visa finder shows which golden visas your budget covers.
This one covers 17 open programs, puts each minimum in your currency, and shows what each asks you to buy, how long to hold it and where it leads.
A golden visa is a residence permit you get for an investment in the country, like property, a fund, a company or bonds.
Some, like Malta's and Cyprus's, give permanent residence from the start.
Latvia's is the smallest investment: €50,000 in a small company, plus €10,000 to the state budget.
In Greece, Italy and Hungary the entry point is €250,000, each with its own conditions.
Yes, in Greece, Latvia, Panama, Cyprus, Mauritius and the UAE, where property qualifies on its own.
Portugal dropped real estate in October 2023, and Spain closed its golden visa on April 3, 2025.
Spain's closed on April 3, 2025, Australia's on July 31, 2024, Ireland's on February 15, 2023, and the UK's on February 17, 2022.
Portugal's is still open, without real estate.
A golden visa leads to residence, and citizenship only through the country's normal naturalization rules.
Those usually ask for years of residence, language and time spent in the country.
The golden visa finder is free, with no sign-up.
The golden visa finder is for investors, founders and families who want a second home base abroad.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and the golden visa finder is one of my free tools on navid.me.
Read about me, or see my creator profile.
For moving abroad, you can also use the digital nomad visa finder, the citizenship by investment comparison, the retirement visa finder, the passport index, the second passport calculator, the visa-free countries map, the Schengen calculator, the 183-day rule calculator and the travel advisory map, all free on navid.me.
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Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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