Fiji · Retirement
Residence on Assured Income Permit
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Last verified July 2026
Applicants must be 45 or older. The Ministry of Immigration does not publish a numeric income threshold. The official standard is offshore assets sufficient to ensure the applicant will not become a charge on public funds. Figures circulating in agent marketing are not government-published.
The cheapest lawful way for an over-45 family to establish a real Pacific base. It is also unusually discretionary. No published threshold means no certainty, and that cuts both ways.
Qualifying routes
650 FJD
Residence on assured income
FJD 650.05 covers both new applications and extensions. An issue fee and a bond fee are also due on approval, though neither is published as a fixed figure.
The facts
- Minimum
- 650 FJD
- Total landed cost
- Applying costs FJD 650.05, plus an unpublished issue fee and bond once approved. The real requirement, though, is demonstrable offshore income or assets, not the fee itself.
- Route type
- Pension requirement
- Timeline
- 1–3 months (The Ministry states a standard processing period of 21 working days.)
- Physical presence
- Not clearly published, though the permit assumes you will actually reside in Fiji.
- Family
- SpouseDependent children
- Permanent residency
- Renewable, rather than a defined route to permanent residency
- Citizenship
- naturalisation after 5 cumulative years of residence within any 10-year period
- Language test
- none prominently published
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- aged 45 or aboveoffshore assets or income sufficient to avoid becoming a charge on public fundsoffshore bank statement (new applications) or local bank statement (extensions)medical report within 3 monthspolice clearance
What can go wrong
- No published income threshold means the decision is discretionary. Agent-quoted figures are inventions. Ask the Ministry directly.
- Age 45+ for new applications rules out younger families entirely.
- A bond is payable on approval, and its amount is not published in advance.
- Extensions require a local bank statement. The money must actually come to Fiji.
- Taking Fiji residence brings worldwide income into a 20% net. For most UHNW families, this permit is a lifestyle purchase with a tax cost attached.