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Specific Countries Visa Offers Residency In Panama And More

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Mar 04, 2016
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Turnkey Residency In Panama With An Investment Upside

The most cost-effective, hassle-free invest-for-residency program we know of available anywhere in the world today is in Panama and takes advantage of this country’s “Specific Countries” residency visa program.

The Specific Countries program was initiated under Ricardo Martinelli’s presidential administration through an executive order that the current president of Panama, Martinelli’s successor, Juan Carlos Varela, has so far allowed to remain in place. It is available to citizens of 48 specifically named countries. If you hold a passport for one of the 48 countries on the list, this is the best Panamanian residency option after Panama’s pensionado visa… and, again, in fact, one of the best residency options in the world.

Unlike other residency visa programs, Panama’s Specific Countries program is a one-application process that results in immediate permanent residency. Other options require several applications over several years andgrant at first temporary, not permanent, residency.

How do you qualify? First, you show that you have at least US$5,000 on deposit in a local bank account. Second, you do one of these three things:

  • You show an offer of employment…
  • You start a corporation (with the intent of running a business)…
  • Or you invest in a piece of real estate (in your own name).

As a foreigner, you may have trouble organizing a job offer (although a primary goal of the new residency option is to make it easier for foreigners to get work permits). Not everyone is interested in starting and operating a business.

Meaning that the most user-friendly way to qualify for this new program is by investing in a piece of Panamanian real estate. No minimum investment amount is formally stated in the decree, but immigration officials are generally said to be looking for a property purchase of at least US$10,000.

That’s not a high hurdle. The trouble is that you’re going to be hard put to find a piece of real estate for sale in this country for anything like US$10,000… or even two or three times that amount.

However, a colleague has put together an offer that allows you to purchase a plot in a Panama teak plantation for US$18,000 (plus an additional US$2,800 for the residency visa costs).

Specifically, for this price, you’re purchasing 1,000 square meters (about one-quarter acre) of planted teak that will be ready for harvest in about 8 years. This is an extremely attractive offer that not only qualifies you for the Specific Countries residency visa program but that also gives you a productive land investment of titled land in your own name.

Annualized returns for the teak, once it’s been harvested, are projected to be between 8.79% and 10.94%. The actual returns will depend on teak prices at the time of harvest as well as whether the trees are sold as logs or lumber (making the initial rough cut to lumber can add value). The lowest projected return of 8.79% is based on today’s teak prices.

This is a fully turnkey opportunity. The plantation owner will continue to manage the land and trees. They’ll organize the harvest and sell the trees.

The investment cost of US$18,000 is the lowest I know of for any investment residency program currently available for any country. The other (still valid) investment residency options in Panama range from US$80,000 (for the reforestation visa) up to US$300,000. And, as I’ve explained, none of the other options (with the exception of the pensionado program) result in immediate permanent residency.

If Panama residency is something you’ve been contemplating, or if you’re shopping for an easy backup residency to have on the shelf “just in case,” I can’t imagine a better current option if you don’t qualify for Panama’s pensionado program.

Even if you do qualify for the pensionado option, this Specific Countries option is worth consideration. A teak investment is relatively low-risk. The downside is the time it takes for the trees to mature. In this case, however, you’re buying into an already planted farm. In fact, you’re buying trees past the halfway mark to harvest. You’re also buying in well past the danger stage (for fire or insects). Teak is relatively impervious to these risks after three years of growth.

And, as the residency is the real endgame here, the potential return on investment is gravy.

If you’re interested in learning more about how you can take advantage of this low-cost option for obtaining quick, turnkey Panamanian residency, inquire here.

Kathleen Peddicord

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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