Mauritius · Residency by investment
Golden Visa Scheme
Announced in the Budget 2026-27 on 19 June 2026. Enabling amendments to the Immigration Act and Income Tax Act were still pending at 15 July 2026 — no applications were being accepted yet. Terms below are from the official Budget Annex and EDB Budget Highlights and could shift in the Finance Act 2026.
This is the first Mauritian route that converts capital directly into permanent residence without a turnover test, and it carries the Premium Visa's remittance-basis tax treatment — which, in a jurisdiction that just went to a 35% top rate, is now the most valuable part of the package rather than a footnote.
Qualifying routes
must be invested 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; official fee schedule not yet published
- Physical presence
- Not yet specified; the visa grants a stay of up to two years, renewable
- Family
- spousedependent childrendomestic workers get fast-tracked work permits processed within 5 working days
- Permanent residency
- Eligible to apply for a Permanent Residence Permit once the USD 1m investment has been effected — this is the point of the scheme
- Citizenship
- Via naturalisation only; a USD 1m investment comfortably exceeds the USD 500k that permits 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
- Not yet law. Anyone marketing this as available in mid-2026 is selling something that does not exist.
- The sector list is narrow and undefined at the edges — '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, which means arriving before the investment is deployable — a sequencing risk if the qualifying criteria are still unpublished.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 was never implemented at all.
- The 35% top band applies to Golden Visa holders on Mauritian-source and remitted income like anyone else; the remittance basis is a planning tool, not an exemption.