Mauritius · Residency by investment
Golden Visa Scheme
Announced in the Budget 2026-27 on 19 June 2026, the scheme still needs enabling amendments to the Immigration Act and the Income Tax Act. As of 15 July 2026, those amendments were pending, and no applications were being accepted yet. The terms below come from the official Budget Annex and the EDB Budget Highlights, and could still shift once the Finance Act 2026 is passed.
This is the first Mauritian route that converts capital directly into permanent residence, with no turnover test. It also carries the Premium Visa's remittance-basis tax treatment. In a jurisdiction that just moved to a 35% top rate, that treatment is now the most valuable part of the package, not a footnote.
Qualifying routes
The investment must be made within the first 12 months of stay, in FinTech, global treasury, artificial intelligence, biotechnology or renewable energy.
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $1M
- Total landed cost
- USD 1m invested, plus professional and structuring fees. The official fee schedule has not yet been published.
- Route type
- Residency by investment
- Physical presence
- Not yet specified. The visa grants a stay of up to two years, renewable.
- Family
- SpouseDependent childrenDomestic workers qualify for fast-tracked work permits, processed within 5 working days
- Permanent residency
- You become eligible to apply for a Permanent Residence Permit once the USD 1m investment has been made. That is the entire point of the scheme.
- Citizenship
- Citizenship comes only through naturalisation. A USD 1m investment comfortably clears the USD 500k threshold that opens the discretionary 2-year naturalisation route.
- Language test
- Adequate knowledge of English or another language current in Mauritius
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted. You would have to renounce.
- Requirements
- undertaking to invest at least USD 1m within 12 months of arrivalinvestment into a qualifying strategic sectorclean criminal record (expected)detailed criteria pending
- This is not yet law. Anyone marketing it as available in mid-2026 is selling something that does not exist.
- The sector list is narrow, and undefined at the edges. Terms like global treasury and FinTech have no published qualifying criteria yet, and the EDB will control the gate.
- The USD 1m must be committed within 12 months of arrival. That means arriving before the investment is even deployable, a sequencing risk if the qualifying criteria are still unpublished.
- Mauritius has announced investor-facing schemes before and not delivered. The 2018 Budget's USD 1m sovereign-fund citizenship route, for one, was never implemented at all.
- The 35% top band applies to Golden Visa holders on Mauritian-source and remitted income, just like anyone else. The remittance basis is a planning tool, not an exemption.