Andorra.
How Andorra sells residence for investors (golden visa): one programme, open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
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Andorra residence without gainful activity by investment in Andorran assets (residència sense activitat lucrativa, "passive residence"; Llei 9/2012 qualificada d’immigració, arts. 95-96)
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Notes from the research
Launched by Llei 9/2012 (approved 31 May 2012), in force on publication in BOPA no. 30 of 27 June 2012: the main holder must invest at least EUR 400,000 in Andorran property, company shares, debt or financial instruments of Andorran entities, Andorran public debt or unremunerated deposits, including a EUR 50,000 unremunerated deposit (EUR 10,000 per dependant) with the INAF, and live in Andorra at least 90 days a year without working. Earlier passive-residence laws (1995 law, Llei 17/2006) required means and a guarantee deposit but no investment; they were repealed by Llei 9/2012 and were not stored. Restated in 2018 (Llei 10/2018). An intermediate rise to EUR 600,000 reported by industry sources was not found in an official text. Llei 2/2026, del 22 de gener (named in the stored Govern form), changed these rules; the stored committee report on the bill gives EUR 1,000,000 (EUR 400,000 if put into the Housing Fund) and non-refundable payments of EUR 50,000/12,000, but the enacted text as published in the BOPA is not stored, so no 2026 rules are recorded yet. No official count of passive-residence permits was found (the statistics office’s permit bulletins do not separate them).
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 happened, and when
The 2 documents behind this page
- 2018-06 · Law or regulationLlei 10/2018, del 17 de maig, qualificada de modificació de la Llei 9/2012, del 31 de maig, de modificació de la Llei qualificada d’immigració (BOPA núm. 36, 13.6.2018) · Consell General del Principat d’Andorra (copy of the Butlletí Oficial del Principat d’Andorra)
- 2012-06 · Law or regulationLlei 9/2012, del 31 de maig, de modificació de la Llei qualificada d’immigració (BOPA núm. 30, any 24, 27.6.2012) · Consell General del Principat d’Andorra (copy of the Butlletí Oficial del Principat d’Andorra)
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