Mauritius

Property Development Scheme residence permit. Buy a qualifying PDS home for more than $375,000 and you, your spouse and children under 24 get residence in Mauritius for as long as you own it.

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Property Development Scheme residence permit

A residence permit for the buyer, spouse and children under 24, valid for as long as the property is owned; the holder may work in Mauritius without a separate Occupation Permit.

Who qualifies

The purchase must be a residential unit in a government-approved Property Development Scheme, for more than $375,000 or the equivalent in a freely convertible currency.
Economic Development Board (EDB) Mauritius, Property Development Scheme guidelines
The property must be freehold and the purchase registered; the residence permit lasts as long as the property is owned, with no minimum-stay condition.
Economic Development Board (EDB) Mauritius, Property Development Scheme guidelines

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Savings you could move or invest?

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Investment: About $375,000.
Time: 8–12 weeks for the property transaction and permit issuance together.
Cost: The $375,000+ purchase price plus registration duty (5%) and legal fees of $5,000–15,000.
The hard part: Financing the purchase, since Mauritian banks generally require substantial equity from non-residents.

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

Citizens by 2034.

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

2027
Permanent residence
From the start, with nothing to renew.
2033
Apply for citizenship
With a language test.
2034
Citizenship

Language: English or any other language in current use in Mauritius (French and Creole included); no formal test found.
Time away: The whole 12 months right before applying, plus at least 5 years in total during the 7 years before that. Holders of the spouse's temporary residence permit are excluded.
Two passports: It depends on the rules at the time and on your home country.

The residence permit lasts as long as the property is owned, so it works like permanence without the formal permit; citizenship still needs 12 months plus 5 of the 7 years before in Mauritius.
The five-year permanent-residence rule is in the Finance Act 2025, but its Immigration Act part starts 'on a date to be fixed by Proclamation', which I could not confirm. The Passport and Immigration Office's own guidelines still show the old three-year rule.
Dual citizenship: the 2022 amendment removed the duty to renounce, but the minister may still strip a naturalised citizen who uses rights reserved to another country's nationals; how that is applied is not published.
The Commonwealth and spouse shorter clocks are registration routes; they are shown without nationality lists so they are not applied automatically.
Decision time is reported at about 12 months, but only in a search summary, so none is shown.
How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
Whether you can keep your current citizenship depends on the rules at the time and your home country.

The law behind these dates

Economic Development Board — Guidelines for acquisition of apartments, including residency (PDS) · checked 2026-09-24
Mauritius Citizenship Act as amended 2022 (ss. 5, 7, 9, 12), Passport and Immigration Office · checked 2026-09-25

Living there.

Time you must spend there: The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax: Becoming a Mauritian tax resident brings the flat 15% rate on Mauritian and remitted foreign income; owning the property alone, without residing, does not.

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

Start today.

See the EDB's guidelines for property purchase and residency.Open edbmauritius.org ↗
Round up the papers.
- Proof of the funds to invest: about $375,000, and where they came from
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health cover for the move

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.

16 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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