Three programs, side by side.

Georgia Residency

Temporary residency · Path to permanent residency · Path to citizenship

Costa Rica Residency

Temporary residency · Path to permanent residency · Path to citizenship

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Permanent residency

Georgia Residency

From $150,000 · 3 routes

Costa Rica Residency

No capital investment

Paraguay Permanent Residency

From $70,000 · 4 routes

Georgia Residency

• Real estate
• Business investment

Costa Rica Residency

• Business investment
• Real estate
• Income requirement

Paraguay Permanent Residency

• Business investment
• Investment fund
• Real estate

Georgia Residency

• Qualifying investment
• Government fees
• Other costs

Costa Rica Residency

• Qualifying investment
• Government fees
• Other costs

Paraguay Permanent Residency

• Qualifying investment
• Government fees

Georgia Residency

30-day decision

Costa Rica Residency

7 to 12 months

Paraguay Permanent Residency

3 months

Georgia Residency

None

Costa Rica Residency

Minimal

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Minimal

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.

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.

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Permanent residents lose the status if they are absent from Paraguay for more than three years without justifying the absence to the National Directorate of Migration (Law 6984/2022, Article 54); no minimum stay per visit is set.

Georgia Residency

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

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.

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Permanent residency is definitive; the permanent residence card issued by the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones must be renewed every 10 years (Law 6984/2022, Article 59).

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.

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.

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Renew the permanent residence card every 10 years with the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (PYG 468,308 in cash from 1 July 2026); the renewed card is needed to renew the Paraguayan identity card. Confirm any route-specific maintenance conditions (e.g. the business registration or jobs created) with the local professional.

Georgia Residency

Spouse, minor children, adult dependent children

Costa Rica Residency

Spouse, minor children, adult dependent children

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Spouse, minor children

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.

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.

Paraguay Permanent Residency

• Spouse: Law 6984/2022 guarantees family reunification for a migrant's spouse, but the investor certificate is issued only to the investor, and no official source sets how an investor's spouse obtains residence on this route; it is confirmed during the eligibility review.
• Minor children: Law 6984/2022 guarantees family reunification for a migrant's unmarried minor children, but no official source sets how an investor's children obtain residence on this route; it is confirmed during the eligibility review.

Georgia Residency

• Path to permanent residency
• Path to citizenship

Costa Rica Residency

• Path to permanent residency
• Path to citizenship

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Not specified

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.

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.

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Not specified

Georgia Residency

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

Costa Rica Residency

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

Paraguay Permanent Residency

Provide an apostilled or legalised criminal record certificate from the country of origin (or from the country of residence if you lived elsewhere for more than one year in the last three years), plus INTERPOL Paraguay and National Police certificates for foreigners; all three are required from age 14.

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.

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.

Paraguay Permanent Residency

• Demonstrate possession of the qualifying investment capital for the selected route.
• Sign a sworn declaration of commitment to the investment project and, for the SUACE business route, register the project with the Vice-Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

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.

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.

Paraguay Permanent Residency

• Requirements, fees and processing estimates can change.
• The tourism, capital markets and real estate routes, added in April 2026, do not yet have a settled track record, and no route has a published end-to-end processing time: SUACE must issue the investor certificate within 5 business days of a complete file, and the National Directorate of Migration publishes no time for the residence decision.
• The SUACE business route requires at least five formal jobs to be created under the approved business plan, with six-monthly progress reports (Resolution No. 0283/2026), an ongoing operating condition, not a one-off payment.