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Special Resident Retiree’s Visa (SRRV). Park a refundable deposit with the Philippine Retirement Authority, or show a lifetime pension, and get an indefinite, multiple-entry retirement visa.

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Special Resident Retiree’s Visa (SRRV)

An indefinite, multiple-entry Special Resident Retiree’s Visa and ACR I-Card for the applicant, spouse, and unmarried children under 21, kept alive by an annual PRA membership fee.

Who qualifies

  • The principal applicant must be at least 40 years old, pass a medical exam, and have no derogatory record with Philippine or international police.
    SRRV Visa
  • SRRV Classic: a time deposit of USD 15,000 (age 50 and older) or USD 25,000 (age 40–49) with an SRRV-accredited bank, if the applicant also has a lifetime pension of at least USD 800 a month (single) or USD 1,000 a month (with dependents); without a qualifying pension the deposit is USD 30,000 (50 and older) or USD 50,000 (40–49).
    SRRV Visa
  • After 30 days the deposit may be converted into a condominium unit or a long-term lease of at least USD 50,000 in value; the deposit or its converted equivalent must stay in place to keep the visa.
    SRRV Visa

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

4 questions, from the program’s own rules.

How old are you?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Savings
About $15,000.
Age
40 or older.
Time
1–3 months once the deposit is wired through an SRRV-accredited bank and medical and police clearances are in hand.
Cost
About $1,800–3,500: the $1,500 PRA application fee, $300 per dependant, roughly $300–600 for medical exams, police clearances and apostilles, and about $360 a year afterward for the family’s PRA membership. The deposit itself is refundable, not a cost.
The hard part
Getting the deposit inward-remitted through the correct PRA-accredited bank channel, and documenting a qualifying pension if you want the lower deposit tier.

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
    Permanent residence

    From the start, with nothing to renew.

  2. 2037
    Apply for citizenship

    With a language test.

  3. 2038
    Citizenship
Language
Able to speak and write English or Spanish and one of the principal Philippine languages.
Time away
Ten years of continuous residence before the court hearing. A sworn declaration of intention must be filed one year before the petition, and school-age children must be enrolled in Philippine schools that teach Philippine history and civics for the whole period.
Two passports
Usually not: new citizens are asked to give up their other citizenship.
  • An indefinite visa kept alive by a yearly fee, not a fixed-term permit; the years are lawful residence, but citizenship needs ten years actually living in the Philippines, a court petition and giving up your old citizenship, which almost no retirees do.
  • The Philippines has no general years-based permanent residence for these families; the SRRV and SIRV are indefinite visas in their own right, so `permanent` is null.
  • Naturalisation is a court case, not an application to an agency. No official decision time was found; Republic Act 530 also delays the decision taking effect for two years, which I did not re-read today.
  • The oath renounces all foreign allegiance. Republic Act 9225 lets natural-born Filipinos keep a second citizenship, but it does not cover people who naturalise.
  • The Administrative Naturalization Law (RA 9139) is only for people born and living in the Philippines and is left out.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
  • This country asks new citizens to give up their other citizenship.
The law behind these dates
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Living there.

Time you must spend there
The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax
The Philippines taxes resident aliens only on Philippine-source income, so a pension paid from abroad is not taxed here; staying more than 180 days a year makes you a resident alien for other purposes.

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

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Start today.

  1. Apply through the Philippine Retirement Authority.Open pra.gov.ph ↗
  2. Round up the papers.
    • Proof of savings: at least $15,000
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
    • A lease or other proof of where you’ll live in Philippines
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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.

16 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 5 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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