Peru investor visa (inversionista residente)

Besides the investment file, submit the Migraciones form with the receipt number and date of the fee, a copy of your valid passport and a certificate showing no criminal, judicial or police records in your country of origin or the countries where you lived during the five years before arriving in Peru. Foreign documents must be apostilled or legalised and translated by a certified translator. A representative may file for you with a simple or registered power of attorney and a valid identity document.

Migraciones asks for a document proving an investment equal to or above the amount set by migration rules; its change-of-status page puts that amount at S/ 500,000. The money must arrive by international transfer, in a single disbursement, through a bank or financial institution supervised by the Superintendency of Banking and Insurance (SBS).

For a new company, add a copy of the public deed of incorporation, no more than three months old. For a capital increase in an existing company, add the public deed of the increase, signed within the last three months, proof of filing and payment of the company's latest annual income tax return showing that it operated in the previous tax year, and the number of its municipal operating licence and the municipality that issued it. The company and any capital increase must be registered with Sunarp.

Apply in the Migraciones Agencia Digital while outside Peru, selecting the office nearest your future home and paying the fee with code 07567 at Banco de la Nación. The decision is sent to your Buzón Electrónico within 30 working days. After entering Peru on the approved visa, apply for the carné de extranjería (S/ 24.00) with an Interpol international exchange record issued within six months. Residence is granted for 365 days and can be extended.

After three consecutive years as a resident investor, you can request permanent resident status if your income tax return shows gross annual income of at least S/ 55,000, the company is up to date with taxes and social security (EsSalud), and its payroll for the last three months shows ten jobs for Peruvians.

The investor status covers the investor only. A spouse, registered partner, children and parents apply for the family resident status as relatives of a foreign resident, which Migraciones grants for one year at a time and which allows them to work as employees or independently. The investor must hold valid residence and up-to-date data with Migraciones when relatives apply, and each relative pays the S/ 58.80 fee and submits a five-year criminal record certificate.