Three programs, side by side.

Albania Residency

Temporary residency · Path to permanent residency · Path to citizenship

Costa Rica Residency

Temporary residency · Path to permanent residency · Path to citizenship

Georgia Residency

Temporary residency · Path to permanent residency · Path to citizenship

Albania Residency

Case by case

Costa Rica Residency

No capital investment

Georgia Residency

From $150,000 · 3 routes

Albania Residency

Real estate

Costa Rica Residency

• Business investment
• Real estate
• Income requirement

Georgia Residency

• Real estate
• Business investment

Albania Residency

• Qualifying investment
• Government fees
• Other costs

Costa Rica Residency

• Qualifying investment
• Government fees
• Other costs

Georgia Residency

• Qualifying investment
• Government fees
• Other costs

Albania Residency

Variable

Costa Rica Residency

7 to 12 months

Georgia Residency

30-day decision

Albania Residency

Relocation required

Costa Rica Residency

Minimal

Georgia Residency

None

Albania Residency

Spending more than 180 days outside Albania within a permit year is a ground to refuse renewal or cancel the permit, and e-Albania describes renewal as for foreigners who stayed in Albania for more than 180 days in a calendar year. For justified reasons you may be away up to 180 days if you notify the police first. To qualify for permanent residence after five years, your absences must not exceed six months at a time or ten months in total.

Costa Rica Residency

There is no minimum number of days. Temporary residency is cancelled after more than two consecutive years outside Costa Rica, and permanent residency after more than four, unless the absence is justified. An absence of more than one year means a written explanation and a police certificate from the country where you stayed at renewal, so in practice most holders visit at least once a year.

Georgia Residency

The law sets no minimum stay for the short-term or investment residence permit. Days in Georgia still decide tax residence (183 days in any 12 months), and the general permanent residence permit and citizenship both rest on ten years of residence in Georgia.

Albania Residency

Up to one year the first time, renewable every year while you own the property and meet the conditions.

Costa Rica Residency

Temporary residency covers years 0 to 3, after about 7 to 12 months of processing (Wealthy Expat's estimate). Permanent residency follows from year 3.

Georgia Residency

Short-term permit: one year at a time. Investment permit: five years.

Albania Residency

Apply within 60 days before the permit expires, with the same documents plus proof that your tax obligations and local taxes for the last calendar year are paid. After five years of lawful, continuous residence you can apply for permanent residence, decided within 60 days.

Costa Rica Residency

Temporary residency is renewed every two years, with the dependents, and a card not renewed within three months of expiry can be cancelled. At each renewal DGME checks uninterrupted national health insurance (CCSS), your entries and exits, and for Rentista income from abroad that it was transferred to a Costa Rican bank each month.

Georgia Residency

Short-term permit: apply to extend no earlier than 90 days before it expires, electronically from abroad if needed; while you keep the same property, no new valuation is needed. The law caps extensions of temporary permits at 12 years and does not expressly exclude this permit. The extension rule does not apply to the five-year investment permit: before it expires, you apply for an unlimited residence permit with the right of permanent living.

Albania Residency

Spouse, minor children, adult dependent children, parents

Costa Rica Residency

Spouse, minor children, adult dependent children

Georgia Residency

Spouse, minor children, adult dependent children

Albania Residency

• Spouse: Family reunification if your own permit is valid for at least one year and can be renewed, and your family is outside Albania when you apply (exceptions for humanitarian reasons), with suitable housing, health insurance for you and your family and stable means without social assistance. A spouse, or a partner you live with in a stable, proven relationship, receives a separate permit.
• Minor children: Family reunification, on the same conditions; each child receives a separate permit.
• Adult dependent children: Unmarried children can apply up to age 30 if you cover all their living costs. Older unmarried children who cannot support themselves for health reasons can be admitted as exceptional cases.
• Parents: Your parents who depend on you or your spouse and lack proper family support in their country, or who cannot support themselves for health reasons, in the cases the law sets.

Costa Rica Residency

Adult dependent children: Rentista and Pensionado: children under 25 and adult children with a disability. Inversionista: adult children with a disability, and single children under 25 who are studying and economically dependent. Dependents renew with the main applicant every two years.

Georgia Residency

• Spouse: Separate application, with its own fee, on the basis of your permit. For the short-term permit, apply while your permit has more than six months left.
• Minor children: Separate application, with its own fee, on the basis of your permit. For the short-term permit, apply while your permit has more than six months left.
• Adult dependent children: Investment permit: only an adult child fully dependent on you who is a beneficiary of support, has a disability or is recognised as legally incompetent. The short-term permit names the owner's children without an age limit; whether an adult child qualifies is not settled, so confirm before applying.

Albania Residency

• Path to permanent residency
• Path to citizenship

Costa Rica Residency

• Path to permanent residency
• Path to citizenship

Georgia Residency

• Path to permanent residency
• Path to citizenship

Albania Residency

A type D visa first if your nationality needs one to obtain a residence permit, and an application within 30 days of entering Albania.

Costa Rica Residency

• Register with your own embassy in Costa Rica.
• Civil and police documents issued abroad must carry an apostille or be authenticated by the Costa Rican consulate in the issuing country, and every document in a foreign language must be translated into Spanish.

Georgia Residency

• Lawful stay in Georgia when you apply. The short-term permit cannot be issued on an ordinary C (short-stay) visa, nor to someone who entered on another country's visa or residence permit.
• For the investment permit, a written recommendation from a member of the Government of Georgia or from three Georgian citizens with authority to represent a business operating in Georgia.

Albania Residency

No threat to public order or national security, and no false documents or fraud.

Costa Rica Residency

A national, fingerprint-based police record. Local or state reports are not accepted.

Georgia Residency

No security or public-safety objection, no wanted status, criminal prosecution or listed conviction, and no forged or false documents.

Albania Residency

• Ownership of immovable property in Albania for the whole term of the permit, shown by an ownership certificate or a notarised sale contract proving the price is paid; a co-owner of half of the property also qualifies.
• Proof of sufficient means for your stay: under the decision's general rule, a deposit in an Albanian bank of at least ALL 300,000 per person for one year, or a monthly income of at least ALL 32,000 per person.

Costa Rica Residency

• Inversionista: invest from USD 150,000 in shares of an active Costa Rican company or in real estate registered in your personal name.
• Rentista: proof of at least USD 2,500 a month of permanent, stable income for at least two years.
• Pensionado: a lifetime pension of at least USD 1,000 a month, evidenced by a document from the competent authority.

Georgia Residency

Ownership of a non-agricultural property in Georgia with a market value above USD 150,000 (short-term permit) or above USD 300,000 (investment permit), or a business investment of at least USD 300,000, each in its lari equivalent.

Albania Residency

• No minimum property value appears in the law, its implementing decision as consolidated to 2024 or the e-Albania document list, as published by the State Police and e-Albania and checked on 12 November 2026. A decision published later in the Official Gazette may not be reflected here: the criteria are set by Council of Ministers decision and can change, and a draft amendment published for public consultation contains no value threshold.
• Spending more than 180 days outside Albania within a permit year is a ground to refuse renewal or cancel the permit.
• Family reunification needs your own permit to be valid for at least one year, while the property permit is issued for up to one year the first time.
• Article 84 does not say whether this permit allows you to work or run a business in Albania.
• Missed formalities end the application or the permit: the fee within 24 hours of the invoice, the originals within 7 days, and the address registration within 30 days of receiving the permit.

Costa Rica Residency

• The Inversionista amount needs written confirmation. Law 9996 set USD 150,000 for the law's own term, and its five-year window for incentives closed on 14 July 2026; the regulation in force (Executive Decree 43926 of 2023) still states USD 150,000 and repealed the old USD 200,000 rule.
• Temporary residency under these three routes does not include permission to work in Costa Rica.
• Citizenship cannot be held from abroad. Naturalization needs seven years of genuinely living in Costa Rica (five for Central American, Spanish and Ibero-American nationals by birth), your entry and exit record is checked, and extended absences count against you.
• Older descriptions of the Rentista route mention a USD 60,000 bank deposit and a four-month annual stay. The regulation in force sets neither, and since 2023 a deposit paid back in monthly instalments does not count as income.
• Marriage certificates and police records are valid for six months from issue, so timing matters.
• Requirements, fees and processing estimates can change. Timelines are Wealthy Expat's estimates, not guaranteed decision dates.

Georgia Residency

• The short-term permit ends when your ownership of the qualifying property ends, and the law gives it no replacement clause.
• The threshold rose from USD 100,000 to USD 150,000 on 1 March 2026, and the amending law sets no transitional rule for properties bought at the old level.
• The law speaks of one property; whether several properties can be combined to pass USD 150,000 or USD 300,000 is not settled.
• Whether years on the short-term permit count toward the ten years for a general permanent residence permit is not settled by the text, and the law caps extensions of temporary permits at 12 years without expressly excluding the short-term permit.
• The business route ends if the annual turnover is below USD 50,000 in year one, USD 100,000 in year two or USD 120,000 in years three to five.
• The Agency may check the facts in your application by visiting the place you stated, during the proceedings and for a year after the permit is issued; if you are absent on a repeat visit during the proceedings, the conditions are treated as not met and the permit can be refused.
• Refusal grounds include broad security and public-safety reasons, and a refusal must be taken to court within 10 calendar days of service.