Oman.
How Oman sells residence for investors (golden visa): 2 programmes, 1 of them open today. Every number and rule below links to the document it comes from.
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Investor residency (Golden Residency)
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Official name: Investor Residency Programme (إقامة مستثمر), relaunched in 2025 as the 10-Year Golden Residency
10-Year Golden Residency launched 31 Aug 2025: single OMR 200,000 threshold across seven routes (property, company, bonds, shares, deposit...), family included. Source is Invest Oman's page; the legal instrument was not found, and whether the older OMR 250,000 five-year category (t-7ae298c102) survives is unknown.
Notes from the research
Launched by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion on 29 Sep 2021 (applications from 3 Oct 2021); the launch date is the ministry's announcement, because the decision creating the programme has not been found. First category (10-year card): OMR 500,000 in a joint-stock company, government bonds or (from March 2022, Ministerial Decision 58/2022) residential property, or a company employing 50 Omanis. Second category (5-year card): OMR 250,000. Retirees also eligible. Visa and residence fees set by ROP Decision 234/2021 (OMR 500 / OMR 300, renewal every three years). On 31 Aug 2025 the ministry launched a '10-Year Golden Residency' with seven routes and a single OMR 200,000 minimum; its legal instrument and fees were not found, and it is not clear whether the 5-year category remains. Investors are 'not entitled to claim Omani citizenship, except under the existing regulations'. A separate owner residence for any property owner (no minimum in the text) was set by ROP Decision 87/2026.
Prices and rules
What is measured
- Golden visas issued10
- Number of nationalities among applicants1
- Investment by programme investors1
Oman residence for owners of property in Integrated Tourism Complexes (نظام تملك العقارات في المجمعات السياحية المتكاملة; Royal Decree 12/2006 art. 8)
Sells the right to live in the country (a “golden visa”), sometimes leading to citizenship later.
Notes from the research
Non-Omanis may buy built units or plots in licensed Integrated Tourism Complexes; the owner of a built unit and first-degree relatives may be granted residence (Royal Decree 12/2006 art. 8). Under the 2007 executive regulations the residence is for two years, renewed automatically every two years for six years; owners of a building plot get a two-year multiple-entry investor visa until construction is completed. No minimum price is set in the texts read. 'launched' is the decree's in-force date (date of issue, 19 Feb 2006; published 1 Mar 2006). Separate from omn-investor-residence (2021, which also has OMR 250,000/500,000 property categories under MD 58/2022). Amendments (MD 109/2022) and current practice not read; status left empty. No official counts found. In scope under decision 15 (refined): buying property is in even without a minimum price; the purchase rule is recorded with the amount unset.
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.
All the numbers we have for Oman
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What happened, and when
The 12 documents behind this page
- 2026-06 · Law or regulationRoyal Oman Police Decision No. 87/2026 amending the Executive Regulations of the Foreign Residency Law · Royal Oman Police (text via Qanoon.om)
- 2025-09 · GovernmentOman Steps into the Global Spotlight with Launch of 10-Year Golden Residency · Invest Oman (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion)
- 2025-08 · NewsOman to launch new golden visa scheme for investors · The National
- 2025 · Governmentملخص المجتمع 2024 (Society Summary of the 2024 annual report) · State Financial and Administrative Audit Institution (SAI), Oman
- 2023-08 · News2,700 investor residency cards issued till August 21 in Oman · Times of Oman
- 2022-06 · NewsInvestor residency card holders reach 463 in Oman by May 2022 · Oman Observer
- 2022-03 · GovernmentMore Than 200 Investor Residency Cards Issued for Various Nationalities in Oman · Oman News Agency (ONA)
- 2022-03 · Law or regulationMinistry of Housing and Urban Planning Ministerial Decision No. 58/2022 granting advantages to non-Omani investors in owning certain real estate · Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (text via Qanoon.om)
- 2021-10 · Law or regulationRoyal Oman Police Decision No. 234/2021 amending the Executive Regulations of the Foreign Residency Law · Royal Oman Police (text via Qanoon.om)
- 2021-09 · GovernmentOman launches long-term residency program for expat investors · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oman
- 2007-09 · Law or regulationوزارة الإسكان: قرار وزاري رقم ١٩١ / ٢٠٠٧ بإصدار اللائحة التنفيذية لنظام تملك العقارات في المجمعات السياحية المتكاملة (Ministerial Decision 191/2007 issuing the executive regulations of the ITC ownership system) · Ministry of Housing, Sultanate of Oman (copy via Qanoon.om)
- 2006-02 · Law or regulationمرسوم سلطاني رقم ١٢ / ٢٠٠٦ في شأن نظام تملك غير العمانيين للعقارات في المجمعات السياحية المتكاملة (Royal Decree 12/2006 on the ownership of real estate by non-Omanis in integrated tourism complexes) · Sultanate of Oman (copy via Qanoon.om)
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