Uzbekistan · Residency by investment
Residence Permit via Real Estate Investment
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Last verified July 2026
Open, on a tiered regional scale. The Tashkent threshold was recently lowered from USD 400,000 to USD 300,000. Note that this produces an indefinite/permanent residence card — not a 10-year permit as commonly reported; that figure conflates the Tashkent tier of a tiered scale with a term.
USD 100,000 in a regional city for an indefinite residence card with free family inclusion is genuinely cheap, and materially better value than Uzbekistan's own golden visa, which asks USD 250,000 as a non-refundable donation for a five-year permit. If you want Uzbek residence, buy property; do not donate.
Qualifying routes
$300k
Tashkent city and region
recently lowered from USD 400,000
$200k
Samarkand, Bukhara, Namangan, Andijan, Fergana, Khorezm
regional tier
$100k
Karakalpakstan and other regions
lowest tier
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $100k
- Total landed cost
- Property investment plus modest state and legal fees; family members are included free.
- Timeline
- 2–4 months — Ministry of Internal Affairs processing.
- Physical presence
- Not specified in the sources we could reach
- Family
- family members included at no additional investment
- Permanent residency
- the permit itself is an indefinite/permanent residence card
- Citizenship
- 5 years of continuous legal residence with formal renunciation of other nationality — an anti-goal
- Language test
- Uzbek or Russian proficiency
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Requirements
- primary-market residential property at the applicable regional thresholdnationality on the permitted listclean criminal recordapplication to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
What can go wrong
- PRIMARY-MARKET RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY ONLY. Secondary-market and non-residential purchases do not qualify — which means buying from developers at developer pricing, with no comparables.
- THE ROUTE IS OPEN ONLY TO NATIONALS OF CERTAIN COUNTRIES per government regulation. Check eligibility before anything else.
- DUAL CITIZENSHIP IS PROHIBITED; naturalisation requires renunciation. The residence is the product; the citizenship is not.
- The separate 'golden visa' under Decree PF-67 (signed 18 April 2025, effective 1 June 2025) costs USD 250,000 as a DONATION — not an investment — plus USD 150,000 per spouse, child or parent, for a 5-year permit. Its renewal mechanics are unclear and the regulatory act for the investment form has not been adopted, so only the donation form is live. We can see no profile for which it beats this property route.
- Uzbek property is illiquid, som-denominated and has no established foreign resale market.