Fiji · Business & founder
Investor Permit for Non-Citizen Investors
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Last verified July 2026
Administered by the Ministry of Immigration and gated on a Foreign Investment Certificate from Investment Fiji. This is an operating-business permit, not a passive investment scheme — the capital must go into a venture that actually trades.
Fiji is the only Pacific jurisdiction on this list where a UHNW family could plausibly live year-round and reach a passport in five years without buying one. The trade-off is that Fiji actually taxes worldwide income, so it is a lifestyle-and-mobility decision, not a tax one.
Qualifying routes
250k FJD
Investor permit — 7 years
commonly cited threshold for the longer permit; some sources cite FJD 500,000 for the 7-year term — confirm the current figure with Investment Fiji
50k FJD
Investor permit — 3 years
lower threshold, shorter term
The facts
- Minimum investment
- 250k FJD
- Total landed cost
- FJD 250,000+ of committed business capital, plus Foreign Investment Certificate and permit fees and the cost of actually operating the venture. Published thresholds vary between sources and terms.
- Timeline
- 3–9 months — Foreign Investment Certificate must precede the permit application; each stage has its own queue
- Physical presence
- The permit is tied to operating the business in Fiji; there is no token-presence option
- Family
- spousedependent children
- Permanent residency
- residence permits are renewable; permanent residence is discretionary
- Citizenship
- naturalisation after 5 cumulative years of residence within any 10-year period
- Language test
- English is an official language of Fiji; no separate test is prominently published
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- Foreign Investment Certificate from Investment Fiji, supported by an approved business proposalinvestment funds remitted from offshore and maintained in the venturepolice clearance from country of citizenship and every country of residence for at least 10 yearsmedical clearance within 3 months of application
What can go wrong
- Thresholds are inconsistently published — FJD 50,000, 250,000 and 500,000 all appear against different permit terms across sources including Fiji's own embassy pages. Confirm with Investment Fiji before committing.
- The full investment must be brought in from offshore and kept in the venture for the permit's life. It is not recoverable capital.
- Reserved sectors exist and the Foreign Investment Certificate is a genuine gate, not a formality.
- Fiji taxes residents on worldwide income at up to 20% with a 10% CGT on Fijian assets. Anyone arriving from a zero-tax base is trading up in tax, not down.
- Police clearance is required covering the last 10 years across every country of residence — a real obstacle for globally mobile families.
- Political history matters: Fiji has had four coups since 1987. Sovereign risk is not zero.
- Cyclone exposure is severe and rising, with insurance costs to match.