Mauritius

Retired Non-Citizen Residence Permit. At 50 or older, transfer at least $1,500 a month into a Mauritian bank account and live there for ten years, renewable, with a path to permanent residence.

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Retired Non-Citizen Residence Permit

A 10-year Residence Permit as a retired non-citizen, renewable; no local employment.

Who qualifies

The main applicant must be 50 years of age or older and undertake to transfer a minimum of $1,500 a month (or $18,000 a year) into a personal Mauritian bank account; EDB guidance for new applicants points to $2,000 a month.
Economic Development Board (EDB) Mauritius, Retired Non-Citizen permit guidelines
A clean police-clearance certificate covering the last ten years is required, along with annual proof to the EDB that the transfers continued.
Economic Development Board (EDB) Mauritius, Retired Non-Citizen permit guidelines

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Does it fit your family?

3 questions, from the program’s own rules.

How old are you?

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Income: At least $1,500 a month, steady and documented.
Age: 50 or older.
Time: 6–10 weeks for the initial permit once the bank transfers and documents are in order.
Cost: About $500–1,000 in application and processing fees; the real commitment is the ongoing $1,500–2,000/month transfer.
The hard part: Keeping the transfers going every month for years — a single missed or undocumented year can jeopardise 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.

Citizens by 2034.

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

2027
First residence permit
10 years, renewable for 10 years at a time.
2032
Permanent residence
Five years on an Occupation Permit or a retired Residence Permit, then a 20-year Permanent Residence Permit. Investors must show turnover (MUR 15 million a year or 75 million over five years); retirees must have brought in USD 200,000 over the five years.
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.

A ten-year Residence Permit (not an Occupation Permit; no local work); permanent residence after five years once USD 200,000 has been brought in.
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

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025 (Act 18 of 2025), ss. 13 and 25: permanent residence after 5 years · checked 2026-09-25
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: No fixed days-per-year rule, but the required monthly transfers effectively assume ongoing residence.
Tax: Becoming Mauritian tax resident (183+ days) means worldwide income can be taxed, but Mauritius only taxes foreign income when it is remitted, and the flat rate is capped at 15%.

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

Start today.

Apply through the EDB's Retired Non-Citizen program.Open edbmauritius.org ↗
Round up the papers.
- Proof of steady income: at least $1,500 a month
- 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.

17 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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