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Paraguay, at your own pace.
Paraguay's residency is built around a pension door and a business door.
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
2 routes, grouped by what Paraguay'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 Paraguay's official programme rules.
A pension or other steady income from outside the country, and no plan to take a local job.
For retirees whose income comes from a lifelong pension or annuity, with earnings from work, a business or discretionary investments not counting as qualifying income.
Threshold, not at riskMost 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.
route asks 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 Paraguay'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.
For retirees whose income comes from a lifelong pension or annuity, with earnings from work, a business or discretionary investments not counting as qualifying income.
A business-based route for people who set up or buy into a Paraguayan company, with permanent residency granted directly once the investment plan is approved and then carried out.
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.
Paraguay Residency for Retirees (Jubilados y Pensionados)▾
At application
Decision — reported: 2 months.- Spent for goodGovernment fees on file: PYG 3,161,079, paid to the government for the initial application.
SUACE Business Residency▾
At application
Decision — reported: 3 months.- Spent for goodGovernment fees on file: PYG 3,161,079, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Locked$70,000 placed as capital — recoverable in principle, exposed in practice.
Figures in more than one currency; not added together.
The order Paraguay Residency for Retirees (Jubilados y Pensionados) follows
- 2026-04-22The Ministry of Industry and Commerce put a new framework for the Foreign Investor Certificate into force (Resolution 0283/2026). Besides the productive-business route, it recognises investment through financial instruments, real estate for economic use and tourism projects, each with its own minimum, and keeps criminal-record checks, a sworn statement on the source of funds and periodic follow-up of the investment. 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 Paraguay'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 Paraguay'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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