Peru retirement visa (rentista residente)

The rentista status is open to foreigners who receive a retirement pension or a permanent income, whether from a Peruvian or a foreign source. For foreign income, you present a document from the country that pays it showing a permanent net income of at least USD 1,000 a month, and a sworn declaration that the money enters Peru through a bank or financial institution supervised by the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS). For Peruvian income, you show a document proving the permanent monthly income.

Retirees typically present a certificate of the monthly pension issued by the body that pays it, apostilled or legalised and translated into Spanish by a certified translator. You must also be outside Peru when applying and have no police, criminal or judicial records in your country of origin or countries of previous residence.

Submit the completed and signed Migraciones application form, a copy of your valid passport, a certificate from the competent authority showing no criminal, judicial or police records in your country of origin or countries where you lived during the five years before arriving in Peru, the income document and, for foreign income, the sworn declaration on the bank channel. If a representative files for you, they need a simple power of attorney or a registered or consular power and their own valid identity document. Foreign documents must be legalised by the Peruvian consulate and the RREE, or apostilled.

Log in to the Agencia Digital, click Verificar, choose the Migraciones office nearest your future home, pay S/ 58.80 with code 07567 at Banco de la Nación using the passport number you will travel with, and upload the documents in a single PDF. Migraciones answers within 30 working days through your Buzón Electrónico. After entering Peru on the approved visa, apply for the carné de extranjería (S/ 24.00) with an Interpol international exchange record issued within the last six months.

Residents already in Peru on another status can change to rentista for S/ 161.40; Migraciones also asks them for the Interpol record and a sworn declaration of no criminal records for the five years before arrival.

The rentista status is personal. A spouse, registered partner, children and parents join as relatives of a foreign resident under the family resident status, granted for one year at a time and allowing them to work. The rentista must have valid residence and updated data with Migraciones when relatives apply. Each relative applies separately from abroad, pays S/ 58.80 and provides the relationship documents, such as a marriage record legalised by the Peruvian consulate and the RREE or apostilled.