Colombia rentista visa: ten minimum wages a month, and the years do not count towards residence
Colombia · Passive Income Visa (V-Rentista)
Income required
COP 17,509,050 per month
Ten times Colombia's 2026 monthly minimum wage, in regular income that a public body or a recognised company certifies it pays you, or income from property you own in Colombia
Government fee
USD 194
Official fee, main applicant, initial application
Official source · Threshold checked 7 Oct 2026 · Last rule change in force: Eligibility criteria, 1 Jan 2026 (9 months ago) · Figures read from the official rules on file at the time this page was served.
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The rentista visa is a visitor visa, so the years you hold it do not count towards a resident visa, and its income bar moves with Colombia's minimum wage, which rose 23% in 2026. If your income is a lifetime pension from a state or a pension fund, the pension visa asks for three minimum wages instead of ten, and its years do count.
Someone living in Colombia on rental or investment income can spend years on this visa and be no closer to settling. The foreign ministry's visa resolution counts time towards a resident visa only on the migrant visas it lists. Since October 2022, the rentista visa has been a visitor visa, and it is not on that list. Time on the older migrant version, granted before then, can still count under a transitional rule.
What the resolution asks
- Income from a lawful source you can prove, paid regularly, with its source declared in your application letter. The proof is a certificate from a public body, or a company recognised by its own government, stating the income it pays you. Property you own in Colombia that produces income also counts.
- At least ten monthly minimum wages, at the rate in force when you apply. That is the figure shown above.
- Health insurance covering you in Colombia for your whole stay, and a police certificate from each country you lived in over the last three years, apostilled and translated.
- No work in Colombia while you hold the visa, which lasts up to two years. Family can join as dependants.
Why the figure keeps moving
Counted in minimum wages, the bar is reset each 1 January with the new wage. A quote or guide written in 2025 understates the 2026 bar by almost a fifth, and the figure above is due to be reset again on 1 January 2027. A quote should use the wage in force on the day you apply.
Fees to Colombia and fees to a firm
To the Colombian state:
- A fee for studying the application and a fee for issuing the visa, which together make the figure shown above (charged in euros in the euro zone); each family member pays their own.
- Then a fee to Migración Colombia for the foreigner's identity card (cédula de extranjería).
To a firm:
- Its own service fee, and any apostille and translation charges, listed separately.
Ask the firm before you pay:
- If your income is a pension, why is it proposing this visa and not the pension visa?
- If you may want to settle, which visa gets you to residence, and when?
- Will your certificate come from a public body or a company recognised by its own government, or does the plan rest on property in Colombia?
- Was the income figure in the quote worked out from the 2026 minimum wage?
- Are the state's fees, identity card included, listed apart from the firm's?
If a visa agency has given you a fee quote or service proposal, answer yes at the box's first question, and it is read line by line against the published rules and the prices firms on file publish for this route. With nothing in writing, answer no and enter your monthly income. The check compares a document or a figure with the published rules, and does not look at your application or advise on it; for advice on your own case, speak to a qualified immigration lawyer.
General information, not legal advice.
