Mauritius · Residency by investment
Family Occupation Permit
Abolished by the Budget 2026-27 on 19 June 2026. The Annex to the Budget Speech states plainly that 'the Family Occupation Permit category will be abolished', with consequential amendments to the Immigration Act. Introduced in 2022 at a USD 250,000 contribution for a 10-year renewable permit covering the whole family, it never attracted meaningful volume.
Worth knowing because agency sites still market it. Mauritius's one true pay-a-contribution-get-residence product is dead — the country has deliberately moved toward substance-tested permits and away from cash-for-status, and the replacement Golden Visa asks for USD 1m of real sector investment rather than USD 250k of contribution.
Qualifying routes
non-refundable contribution to the COVID-19 Projects Development Fund for a 10-year permit covering the family — no longer available
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $250k
- Total landed cost
- Historic: USD 250,000 contribution plus fees. No longer available.
- Physical presence
- not applicable
- Permanent residency
- Existing holders should take advice on transitional treatment; the Budget provided transitional provisions for Professional-category OP holders but the Family OP was abolished outright
- Citizenship
- not applicable
- Language test
- not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Abolished — any adviser still quoting the USD 250,000 Family OP in 2026 is working from stale material.
- Existing holders face uncertainty: the Annex provided expressly for transitional arrangements in the Professional category but not for the Family OP, and the consequential Immigration Act amendments were still pending at 15 July 2026.
- The replacement is not equivalent. The Golden Visa costs USD 1m and restricts the investment to five named sectors.