Kazakhstan · Residency by investment
Investor Residence Permit ('Golden Visa')
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Last verified July 2026Unconfirmed
Open. The regulation took effect 10 May 2025 with applications from 1 June 2025. The permit runs for 10 years, not 5 as commonly reported. Investment is USD 300,000 into the charter capital of Kazakh companies or into locally traded securities.
Ten years of residence for USD 300,000 and a USD 250 fee is cheap by global standards. But it is strictly inferior to the AIFC ITRP for a tax-motivated family — five times the capital for no tax benefit — and the citizenship it eventually leads to would cost you every other passport you hold. This is a distant second choice to the ITRP.
Qualifying routes
$300k
Charter capital of Kazakh companies
10-year permit
$300k
Locally traded securities
10-year permit
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $300k
- Total landed cost
- USD 300,000 investment plus a government fee of roughly USD 250; electronic application.
- Timeline
- 1–3 months — Electronic processing.
- Physical presence
- Not specified in the material we could reach
- Family
- unverified — the official press release is silent on family inclusion
- Permanent residency
- not clearly specified
- Citizenship
- 5 years of continuous permanent residence (3 if married to a citizen) with mandatory renunciation — an anti-goal, see watchOuts
- Language test
- since October 2024, a formal exam in Kazakh language, constitutional basics and national history, requiring at least 60% overall (minimum 36 language, 9 constitution, 15 history), sat quarterly at the National Testing Center, certificate valid 2 years. Requirements were eased somewhat in July 2025.
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Requirements
- USD 300,000 into charter capital or locally traded securitieselectronic applicationgovernment fee of roughly USD 250clean criminal record
What can go wrong
- THE CONSTITUTIONAL DUAL-CITIZENSHIP BAN, in force since 1 July 2026, is the dominant fact about Kazakhstan. Naturalisation requires renunciation and would strip your existing nationalities.
- FAMILY INCLUSION AND RENEWAL MECHANICS ARE UNVERIFIED. The official press release is silent and we could not locate the implementing text. Do not assume dependants are covered.
- USD 300,000 FOR NO TAX BENEFIT. The ITRP delivers the tax residency advantages at USD 60,000. Unless you need the 10-year term or are disqualified from the ITRP by the 20-year lookback, this route is poor value.
- Permanent residence separately requires roughly KZT 5.7 million (about USD 12,000) in a Kazakhstani bank account — waived for ethnic Kazakhs (Qandas) — and opening the local account has become the hard part, with applicants resorting to temporary employer transfers to obtain the bank certificate. 2026 rules add a points-based assessment and a language test.
- PIT moved to 10%/15% progressive and VAT to 16% from 1 January 2026.