Business investment · Last checked 2026-08-07

Inversionistas y personal relacionado

Investment or related senior company role

Chile’s investor subcategory includes an in-scope investor branch for foreign-company legal representatives and senior managers seeking a qualifying productive investment. This guide intentionally omits the separate employment-based related-personnel branch.

Country: Chile
Applicant basis: Investment or related senior company role
Responsible authority: Servicio Nacional de Migraciones
Official route status: Current official route
Information available: Detailed guide
Last checked: 2026-08-07

Supported requirements

What the current source supports

Document a planned investment of at least US$500,000 or its equivalent for producing goods or services in Chile.
Obtain the sponsorship letter issued by InvestChile and provide a document describing the investment purpose, amount, and the applicant’s functions.
Provide a passport valid for at least one year from the filing date, a recent photograph, and the required criminal-record evidence for adult applicants.
If relying on an already constituted company, provide the applicable incorporation, tax-start, electronic tax-folder, and municipal-patent evidence.
Apply from outside Chile through SERMIG’s Digital Procedures Portal. The current dedicated page marks this application as available only from abroad.
Translate documents not in Spanish or English through the accepted official channel and apostille or legalize foreign documents as applicable.

Applicant scope

Who this route generally serves

Generally designed for: Foreign-company legal representatives or senior managers seeking to invest at least US$500,000 in Chile for the production of goods or services.
Legal basis named by the authority: Law 21,325 and Supreme Decree 177, including the current SERMIG subcategory 13 guidance.

Route lifecycle

What to confirm from application onward

Financial basis: At least US$500,000 or its equivalent in a productive investment for goods or services.
Government service fees: Chile’s migration charges are nationality-dependent and the exchange-rate table is time-sensitive. Confirm the live SERMIG amount before paying.
Initial status: Temporary residence under subcategory 13; the current general framework permits up to two years, subject to the individual grant.
Renewal: A renewal must show progress or continuation of the investment project and the current tax, municipal, contractual, and company evidence that applies. Renewal is not automatic.
Dependents: SERMIG states that qualifying family members under Law 21,325 Article 74(1)–(2) may receive temporary residence as dependents through the separate dependent procedure.
Work rights: This guide covers only the investor branch. It does not publish or infer eligibility through the related senior-personnel or technical-employment branch.
Presence considerations: No investor-specific physical-presence rule is stated on the dedicated route page.
Permanent residence: Definitive residence is a separate application subject to the current temporary-residence, absence, compliance, and subcategory rules; it is not automatic.
Citizenship relationship: No citizenship timeline is stated because the current official materials reviewed for this wave are not sufficiently consistent to support one route-specific claim.

Official evidence

Sources for this route

General planning information only—not legal, tax, or investment advice. A listed route does not determine eligibility. Verify current rules with the responsible authority before acting.