Mauritius · Residency by investment
Permanent Residence Permit (20-year)
Qualification tightened with effect from September 2025: the qualifying permit-holding period rose from 3 to 5 years and the income and investment thresholds rose across every category.
The PRP is what the Occupation Permit is actually for: it drops the turnover treadmill and gives 20 years of secure status with the right to invest and work without a further permit. Reaching it now takes five years of sustained, evidenced economic performance rather than three.
Qualifying routes
MUR 15m annual turnover for each of the 5 preceding years, or MUR 75m aggregate over 5 consecutive years
MUR 3m annual business income for 5 years, or MUR 15m aggregate
monthly basic salary of at least MUR 400,000
USD 200,000 transferred to Mauritius over the 5-year period
USD 375,000 into a qualifying business activity
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $375k
- Total landed cost
- No material government fee; the cost is the five years of maintained thresholds that precede it
- Timeline
- 2–6 months — application must be filed within 6 months of satisfying the criteria
- Physical presence
- None prescribed once granted; the PRP runs 20 years
- Family
- spouse or common-law partnerdependent childrendependent parents
- Permanent residency
- This is the permanent residence status — 20 years, renewable
- Citizenship
- PRP years count toward the 7-year naturalisation requirement
- Language test
- adequate knowledge of English or another language current in Mauritius
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Requirements
- 5 years' continuous holding of a qualifying permitcategory-specific turnover, salary or transfer thresholds met and evidencedclean criminal recordapplication within 6 months of satisfying the criteria
- 'Permanent' means 20 years, not forever. It is a long lease on status, and renewal is at the state's discretion under whatever rules exist in 2046.
- The MUR 15m annual turnover test for investors is demanding — roughly USD 325k a year, every year, for five consecutive years, evidenced in audited accounts.
- The September 2025 changes were not grandfathered in the way many advisers assumed; permit holders who entered under the 3-year expectation now face five.
- The government's own Passport and Immigration Office page was still publishing the superseded 3-year criteria (MUR 15m annual or MUR 45m aggregate over 3 years; MUR 150,000 monthly salary; USD 54,000 over 3 years for retirees) when we checked in July 2026. Do not rely on the official site for this permit — it is out of date, and the EDB, not the PIO, is the operative authority.
- The 6-month filing window after qualifying is strictly applied — miss it and the clock arguments start again.
- A PRP does not shelter you from the new 35% top band; permanent residence and tax residence are different questions with different answers.