Spain Golden Visa

Spain's golden visa was a residence route for non-EU investors created by Ley 14/2013. Every investor route closed to new applicants on April 3, 2025.

The best-known route required buying property in Spain worth at least €500,000 per applicant. Other routes required €2 million in Spanish government debt or €1 million in Spanish company shares, investment funds or bank deposits. A business project of general interest also qualified.

Ley Orgánica 1/2025, a law on the efficiency of Spain's public justice service, repealed the investor articles of Ley 14/2013 (articles 63 to 67). The law was published Jan. 3, 2025. The investor change took effect three months later, on April 3, 2025.

Current options are compared in the Spain guide. Applicants who plan to live on savings or passive income can look at the non-lucrative visa, which requires proof of means rather than an investment. Founders can look at the entrepreneur residence.

No new applicant can qualify. Applications filed before April 3, 2025, are still decided under the rules in force on the filing date.

There's no current document list because the program accepts no new applications. Renewal rules for existing holders are in the Duration & Renewal section.

No fee or investment amount applies to new applicants. The former thresholds in the overview are for reference only.

New applications aren't accepted. For alternatives, see the Spain guide.

Existing investor visas and authorizations keep their validity, and renewals are decided under the rules in force when the initial authorization was granted (five-year renewals under the 2022 to 2025 rules).

Investors or relatives who applied before the cutoff can still receive their visa or authorization under the rules in force when they applied.

The closure changed immigration eligibility, not tax rules.

A person who spends more than 183 days in Spain in a calendar year, counting sporadic absences, is tax-resident there. So is anyone whose main base of activities or economic interests is in Spain. The tax agency applies the status to the whole calendar year.