Monaco.
How Monaco 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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Residence card
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Official name: Carte de séjour de résident (Monaco residence card, including for persons of independent means)
No program_terms rows: the ordinance sets no amount. The EUR 500,000 bank deposit mentioned in the programme note is a practice reported by officials and media, not a recorded rule.
Notes from the research
Ordonnance Souveraine 3.153 of 1964: a first-time resident card needs housing and either a work permit or proof of sufficient means (art. 6); ordinary 3-year and privileged 10-year cards follow. The law sets no amount; officials and media describe a EUR 500,000 deposit in a Monaco bank as the usual means test for those not working. Not an investment programme in the strict sense, and not specific to non-EU nationals. About 1,300 first-card applications a year (all applicants). launched = publication date of the ordinance (Journal de Monaco, 20 March 1964; signed 19 March 1964), because the ordinance states no in-force date. It replaced Ordonnance 3.772 of 12 November 1948 (not stored).
Prices and rules
What is measured
- Applicant share3
- Applications received1
- Applications turned down1
- Enquiries received by the programme1
- Investor residence permits renewed1
- Persons screened by the security service1
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What happened, and when
The 3 documents behind this page
- 2026-01 · NewsS'installer à Monaco : logement, finances et casier judiciaire parmi les critères d'accès · Monaco Tribune
- 2025-10 · NewsMonaco mise sur la sécurité et l'accompagnement personnalisé pour attirer et intégrer de nouveaux résidents · Monaco Tribune
- 1964-03 · Law or regulationOrdonnance Souveraine n° 3.153 du 19 mars 1964 relative aux conditions d'entrée et de séjour des étrangers dans la Principauté (consolidated) · Principauté de Monaco (Legimonaco)
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