Latvia residency by investment

Routes and amounts

Routes under section 23 of the Immigration Law¹.

Key facts

Programme

Temporary residence permit for investors

Status

changing

Authority

Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP)

Legal basis

Immigration Law, section 23

Permit

5 years, with annual registration

Minimum stay

None, but annual registration

Permanent residence

After 5 years

Citizenship

10 years with language requirement

Family included

Spouse and minor children

Property route

Yes

Last verified

3 September 2026

Why the row is marked "changing"

On 11 June 2026 the Saeima passed amendments to the Immigration Law that would stop issuing temporary residence permits on the basis of a property purchase from 1 January 2027¹. On 19 June 2026 the President returned the law to Parliament for review¹. A returned law is not in force, so the property route in the table is still the law as it stands, and the dataset says so in the route detail. The row will move to "open" if Parliament drops the amendments and the property route will move to the change log if they are adopted. Until one of those happens, the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (PMLP) is the place to check before relying on either route¹.

What the amounts mean

The company route is the smallest capital figure in the dataset, but it is not EUR 50,000 in total. The share capital must be in a Latvian company that meets turnover or tax thresholds, and a EUR 10,000 payment to the state is due on top, so the cash outlay is at least EUR 60,000 before the company's own operating needs¹. The property route is EUR 250,000 for one property outside Riga and Jurmala, or in Riga above the threshold, plus a state payment of 5% of the purchase price, EUR 12,500 on the minimum¹.

Stay rules and renewal

No minimum stay applies, but the permit is issued for five years with annual registration¹. The dataset classes the stay requirement as "none" for the filter because registration is an administrative act and requires no presence. A holder who misses a registration puts the permit at risk in the same way a Portuguese holder who misses the 14-day stay does.

Family

The spouse and minor children may be included¹. Adult children and parents are not listed.

Citizenship position

Permanent residence follows five years of residence, and naturalisation ten years with a Latvian language requirement¹. As with every temporary permit in the dataset, those years are years of actual residence; the five-year permit renewed from abroad does not by itself produce them.