{"id":92,"date":"2023-11-23T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=92"},"modified":"2023-12-06T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T23:57:10","slug":"golden-passports-for-investors-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/golden-passports-for-investors-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden passports for investors in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-93 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/russian_passport-211x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/russian_passport-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/russian_passport-721x1024.png 721w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/russian_passport-768x1091.png 768w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/russian_passport.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/center>The Russian Ministry of Economy has developed new conditions under which foreign investors can obtain a permanent residence permit in Russia. The government had already presented a draft law on issuing so-called golden passports in spring 2021. The current proposal allows them to invest in social or cultural projects of at least 15 million rubles (USD 170,000) or donations of 5 million rubles (USD 56,500). Other options include purchasing real estate worth 50 million rubles (USD 565,000) in Moscow and 25 million rubles (USD 282,500) in the regions, setting up a business that will then exist for at least two years, and investing 30 million rubles (USD 339,000) into an existing one. Two conditions that were included in the government&#8217;s proposal from last November are now missing: the purchase of Russian government bonds and the purchase of shares. The former version passed the first reading in the Duma in December.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Think what you want about Russia. Something that has little value today maybe very valuable tomorrow. This is the biggest country of the world and a <strong>current 13 percent personal income flat tax rate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lets have a look at the visa requirements for Russian passport holders (status end 2023):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visa_requirements_for_russians-1024x763.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"871\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visa_requirements_for_russians-1024x763.png 1024w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visa_requirements_for_russians-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visa_requirements_for_russians-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visa_requirements_for_russians.png 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visa for China available online or on arrival? That is interesting!<\/p>\n<p>Russia is the biggest country in the world, a member of the BRICS countries, has a competitive tax rate and the passport offers interesting visa options.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: <strong>While frowned upon today, a Russian passport could be something very valuable in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Economy has developed new conditions under which foreign investors can obtain a permanent residence permit in Russia. The government had already presented a draft law on issuing so-called golden passports in spring 2021. The current proposal allows them to invest in social or cultural projects of at least 15 million rubles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-visa","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}