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Investor temporary residence permit. Moldova grants temporary residence to non-EU investors who put at least €100,000 into a Moldovan company and create at least 10 local jobs.

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Investor temporary residence permit

A temporary residence permit tiered by investment size and jobs created — 2 years at the minimum €100,000/1-job threshold, 4–5 years for a larger contribution or more jobs, up to 8 years for the most sustained investments; from 1 January 2026 issued as the new biometric Residence Card.

Who qualifies

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Savings you could move or invest?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Investment
About $110,000.
Time
10 working days (expedited) to 30 calendar days (standard) once the investment is documented.
Cost
About $110,000–120,000 including the investment, company setup and legal fees.
The hard part
The job-creation requirement is a real hiring commitment, not a paperwork formality, and is checked at renewal.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

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Citizens by 2038.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    2 years, renewable for 2 years at a time.

  2. 2029
    Renew the permit

    Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 2 years.

  3. 2031
    Renew the permit

    Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 2 years.

  4. 2032
    Permanent residence

    Five years on provisional (temporary) residence (3 for family of a Moldovan citizen). You also need a satisfactory level of Romanian with a certificate, housing, and no criminal record in the last 3 years.

  5. 2037
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test and a civics test.

  6. 2038
    Citizenship
Language
Romanian, tested in an exam run by the National Agency for Curriculum and Evaluation.
Civics
A test on the Constitution, sat with the Romanian exam.
Time away
Ten years of continuous legal residence, counted from the decision granting your first residence right, and legal permanent residence on the day you apply. Any year in which you spent more than 6 months abroad in total does not count.
Two passports
Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.
  • The permit length depends on the size of the investment: 2 years at the smallest level, 3 years with 8 jobs, and up to 8 years for the largest investments or 50 jobs.
  • The migration authority's permanent-residence page would not open (it returned 404). The 5-year rule and the Romanian requirement come from its text as shown in search results.
  • The Romanian level was reported by the press as B2 with a pass mark of 75 out of 100. This was not found in an official text.
  • The law gives up to 12 months to decide, which can be extended by 6. How long decisions really take under the new law is not yet known.
  • The law also asks for income of at least the minimum wage, earned for 3 years before applying.
  • MD-INVEST: Invest Moldova's official tiers (30 average monthly salaries or 1 job gives 2 years; more gives up to 8) do not match the program's '€100,000 and 10 jobs' description. The program entry should be rechecked. Renewal length was not stated; this file assumes 2 years.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
The law behind these dates
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Living there.

Time you must spend there
No fixed day-count is set for holding the permit, but the underlying investment and jobs must remain in place at renewal.
Tax
Moldovan tax residence follows the 183-day rule.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

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Start today.

  1. Read Invest Moldova's page on obtaining temporary residence through investment.Open invest.gov.md ↗
  2. Round up the papers.
    • Proof of the funds to invest: about $110,000, and where they came from
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
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Or let us run it.

$900for your first year as a founding member. Then $399 a year, automatically.Standard first year: $1,200. Everyone renews at $399.One membership, the whole family. Accounts and activation included.

20 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 4 of them: send what we ask for, sign, and show up. We run the rest, and keep every permit renewed on time. Accounts and activation are included, whether you move now or keep the plan ready. Accounts depend on provider availability. Government, record and approved third-party charges are extra.

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