Archive · 13 Sep 2025
Spain's Golden Visa: Fast Track to EU Residency for Investors
Spain offers a 'Golden Visa' program for investors.
If you invest in property, banks, or government bonds, you can get a visa in about a month.
This visa lets you live, work, and travel in Spain and many other European countries.
After five years, you can apply for permanent residency, and after ten years, you might become a Spanish citizen.
Some groups, like people from certain Latin American countries, can get citizenship even faster.
The visa also allows your family, like your spouse, children, and parents, to join you.
Spain's Golden Visa program offers residency to foreign investors.
Investors can obtain temporary residence permits in less than a month.
Permanent residency is possible after five years, citizenship after ten.
Eligibility includes investment in real estate, funds, or government bonds.
The program grants freedom of movement within the Schengen Area.
- Who
- Foreign investors and their families
- What
- Can obtain residency in Spain through investment.
- When
- Applications processed in approximately one month for temporary residency.
- Where
- Spain
- Why
- To gain residency, work, travel benefits within the EU.
- Program Name
- Spain Residence by Investment Program (Golden Visa)
- Investment Options
- Real estate (EUR 500,000+), Bank deposits/funds/shares (EUR 1M+), Gov't bonds (EUR 2M+)
- Initial Residence Permit
- 3 years, renewable for 5-year terms
- Citizenship Eligibility
- 10 years (2 years for Sephardic Jews, Ibero-American nationals, etc.)
- EU Travel
- Investors can travel freely across the Schengen Area
- Family Inclusion
- Spouse/partner, dependent children, dependent parents