Jordan Citizenship by Investment

Status: active. Jordan grants citizenship to foreign investors who meet criteria set by the Council of Ministers. The Cabinet amended those criteria on July 15, 2026, raising the threshold for share purchases and lowering it for new projects outside Amman (Jordan News Agency report of the Cabinet decision).

The route is for investors and business owners, not remote workers. Approved investors first receive a temporary Jordanian passport. Full Jordanian citizenship after three years on a temporary passport, if investment and employment conditions are kept; any breach revokes citizenship or residency.

The full text of the amended decision has not been published online. The figures on this page come from the state news agency's report of the Cabinet decision and the Minister of Investment's comments two days later (Petra).

Property buyers have a separate residency route that does not lead to citizenship. Five-year renewable residency for buying property worth at least JOD 200,000 from a developer, JOD 300,000 from a private seller or JOD 150,000 outside Amman, held five years without sale or mortgage.

The main applicant must qualify through one of the routes below. Each amount is the minimum under the July 2026 criteria.

• Share purchase: a new purchase of shares in Jordanian companies worth at least JOD 1,500,000. No more than 10% of the investment may go into any one company. The shares must be bought through a licensed broker within 4 months of the Ministry of Investment's approval and held for at least 5 years, with no borrowing against them, mortgage, sale or profit withdrawal.
• New productive project: paid-up capital of at least JOD 700,000 in Amman or JOD 500,000 in the governorates outside Amman. The report does not restate the number of Jordanian jobs these projects must create.
• New shares in an existing project: at least JOD 1,000,000, part of it in new fixed assets.
• Existing investment: an average share of at least JOD 700,000 in fixed and non-current assets over the last three years in Amman.
• Special sector: at least JOD 3,000,000 in logistics, medical supplies or pharmaceutical warehousing.
• Employment: Citizenship for a business owner who directly employs 150 Jordanians in Amman or 100 outside Amman, registered with the Social Security Corporation for at least a year before and kept for two years after citizenship.

Family: The investor's wife, dependent daughters, unmarried sons under 24 at the time of application and dependent parents; for investments above JOD 2 million, sons up to 30 and their wives and children also qualify.

The criteria do not set an income test. Every file is decided by the Cabinet, so meeting a threshold does not guarantee approval.

No official document checklist for the 2026 criteria has been published. The government report describes what each route must prove rather than a list of forms.

• Prior approval: written approval from the Ministry of Investment before the money is invested.
• Share route: proof that the shares were bought through a licensed broker within the deadline after approval and are still held.
• Employment route: Social Security Corporation registration records for the Jordanian staff.
• Compliance: evidence that the investment or jobs are kept through the temporary passport period, since any breach revokes citizenship or residency.

Personal documents such as passports, civil status records and police certificates are not itemized in any official source read for this page. Applicants should confirm the list with the Ministry of Investment before filing.

The main cost is the investment itself, from JOD 500,000 for a new project outside Amman to JOD 3,000,000 for the special sector route. The share route needs JOD 1,500,000.

No official application, processing or due diligence fee has been published for investor citizenship files. Any fee quoted online without an official source should be treated as unconfirmed.

Holding rules add a real cost: share investors cannot borrow against, mortgage or sell the shares or withdraw profits for years, and project investors must keep their capital and staff in place through the temporary passport period. Legal, translation and broker costs are set by private providers.

Applications go to the Ministry of Investment, which issues written approval before the investment is made.

1. Apply to the Ministry of Investment for written approval of the chosen route.
2. Make the investment after approval. Share buyers must complete the purchase through a licensed broker within 4 months of the approval.
3. The Cabinet decides on citizenship. Approved investors receive a temporary passport for 3 years while the conditions are checked.
4. Final citizenship is recommended after that period if the investment or employment conditions have been kept.

No official online portal, processing time or decision deadline has been published for these files.

This is a citizenship route, so there is no visa to renew. The steps run in this order:

• Temporary passport: 3 years for the project routes, during which the investment or jobs must be kept.
• Final citizenship: recommended after the compliance period if every condition was met.
• Share route lock: the shares must be held for at least 5 years without sale, mortgage or profit withdrawal.

Any breach of the investment or employment conditions leads to the revocation of citizenship or residency (Petra).

The separate property residency does not count toward citizenship. Five-year renewable residency for buying property worth at least JOD 200,000 from a developer, JOD 300,000 from a private seller or JOD 150,000 outside Amman, held five years without sale or mortgage.

Citizenship by investment does not come with a special tax regime in any official source read for this page. Holders fall under the ordinary Income Tax Law.

Tax residency depends on presence, not nationality. Under Income Tax Law No. 34 of 2014, a person who resides in Jordan for at least 183 days in the tax period, consecutive or not, is a resident.

Article 3 of the law taxes income generated in or from Jordan. In the published text, a resident's income from outside Jordan is taxed only when it originates from money or deposits from Jordan. Investors should confirm with the Income and Sales Tax Department how later amendments and their own structure apply.