Jordan golden visa: five-year residence through property

Clause nine of the Cabinet decision published by the Ministry of Interior grants a five-year residence, or its renewal, to an investor or to an ordinary person who is not an investor, regardless of how long they have previously lived in Jordan. The property thresholds are: at least JOD 200,000 when bought from a real-estate developer or housing company; at least JOD 300,000 when bought from anyone else; and at least JOD 150,000 for one or more properties outside Amman governorate, with no developer requirement.

The value is assessed by the Department of Lands and Survey, not by the purchase contract alone.

The property must be kept for at least five years without being sold or mortgaged. When you apply to renew the residence, you must still own the same property, or a new one valued at the same amount; at renewal the decision does not require a lien to be placed on it.

The conditions are published by the Ministry of Interior, whose Directorate of Nationality and Foreigners Affairs and Directorate of Investment run its e-services together with the Residence and Borders Department. The MOI e-services portal has an investors facilities section. Buy the property, have it valued by the Department of Lands and Survey, then apply to the MOI for the residence. The decision sets no separate fee, and processing times are not published.

The decision grants a residence, not a work authorisation or citizenship. Employment still requires a Ministry of Labour work permit. Citizenship through investment is a separate set of routes in the same decision, based on shares, projects or employment rather than residential property, and the family benefits listed there refer to citizenship.