Chile, at your own pace.
Chile's residency routes are organized around the source of an applicant's money rather than offered as one general category.
When rules change mid-way, the date your application is filed is what often decides which rules apply to you. Where are you right now?
Pick by how you live
3 routes, grouped by what Chile's system asks of you day to day — not by which visa is most talked about. Every figure below is what Immimaps has verified against Chile's official programme rules.
A pension or other steady income from outside the country, and no plan to take a local job.
Most of these sums are shown, not spent.
On most remote-work and retirement routes, the figure is proof of means — it sits in your own account until it's checked, and nothing is transferred. Routes where money genuinely moves are marked below.
routes ask you to show a balance or income — once it's checked, it stays yours.
route places capital that is exposed until the hold period or conditions are met.
What keeping the visa actually asks of you
Counted from each route's own rules. Some routes lead to permanent residence or citizenship and some don't; the route cards below say which.
Pick a route, see the real commitment
Every official figure below is what Immimaps has verified for that route against Chile's official programme rules — not a marketing minimum. Service fees are what independent firms publish for the route, shown only once five or more are on file.
Requires capital placed directly in a Chilean business, with approval from the national investment promotion agency built into the process before the immigration application itself.
For people living on a pension, rental income, or investment returns rather than a salary — the income has to be recurring and documented, not a one-off transfer.
Tied to a confirmed job with a Chilean employer, with the income floor for this route set by national wage law rather than a separate immigration rule.
What each route costs, stage by stage
Added up from the official figures on file for each route — split into money spent for good, money locked and returned later, and money shown but never transferred. Not a modelled estimate.
Investor Visa▾
At application
Decision — reported: 3 months.- Spent for goodEstimated government fees, shown not graded: $64, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Locked$500,000 placed as capital — recoverable in principle, exposed in practice.
Residencia Temporal - Jubilados y Rentistas▾
At application
Decision — reported: 6 months.- Spent for goodEstimated government fees, shown not graded: CLP 200,000 – CLP 250,000, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Shown, never leaves you$1,000 shown as proof of means every month — nothing is transferred.
3 ways to qualify — shown: the cheapest. Alternatives: $1,000 (shown) / $1,000 / $1,000.
Figures in more than one currency; not added together.
Temporary Residence Visa for Work▾
At application
Decision — reported: 6 months.- Spent for goodGovernment fees on file: $42 – $1,160, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Shown, never leaves youCLP 553,553 shown as proof of means every month — nothing is transferred.
Figures in more than one currency; not added together.
The order Residencia Temporal - Jubilados y Rentistas follows
- 2026-06-22Chile's minimum monthly wage — the income floor behind the standard work-residency route — was raised to CLP 553,553 by Ley 21.830, published in the Diario Oficial on 22 June 2026 with retroactive effect from 1 May 2026. source
The cost calculator separates money spent for good from money that's only shown or locked up.
Open the cost calculatorUpload it and Immimaps checks it against what Chile's official programme actually requires, and reads the contract clause by clause. Free, no account.
Check my documentEvery official figure on this page is checked against Chile's official immigration sources. Service fees are what independent firms publish for a route — not an official figure, and never any one firm's price. Immimaps does not publish success rates, approval odds or any probability score — here or anywhere else.
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Immimaps is not an agency and takes no placement fees. We show the real figures on every route, show the working, and tell you what it actually costs.
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