Kyrgyzstan · Business & founder
Temporary residence permit (vremenny vid na zhitelstvo)
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Last verified August 2026Unconfirmed
Issued for one year and renewed annually, but not beyond five years in total. Granted for employment, study or investment activity.
This is the first rung, and the one most people skip in their planning. Neither the four-party treaty nor Article 13 works without residence underneath it.
Qualifying routes
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Employment in Kyrgyzstan
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Study at an educational institution
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Investment activity
The facts
- Total landed cost
- State duty in the region of KGS 4,000, plus medical certificates, translation and agent fees. Confirm the current duty, as secondary sources vary.
- Route type
- Business & founder
- Timeline
- 1–3 months
- Physical presence
- Residence in Kyrgyzstan with registration at an address.
- Family
- dependants, subject to the grounds relied on
- Permanent residency
- The normal precursor to the permanent permit.
- Citizenship
- Time on a temporary permit does not by itself satisfy the Article 13 permanent-residence condition. Sequence this carefully.
- Language test
- Not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- a qualifying groundaddress registrationmedical documentationclean criminal record
What can go wrong
- IT CAPS AT FIVE YEARS. The temporary permit is a bridge, not a destination.
- THE GROUND MATTERS. Employment, study and investment are the stated bases; a permit obtained on a ground you stop satisfying is exposed.
- Fees and procedure are set by subordinate acts under the Law on External Migration and change without much notice.