Colombia country guide
General investment · Last checked 2026-08-07
Visa M Inversionista
Qualifying investment
Colombia’s Visa M Inversionista is for an applicant who documents a qualifying registered foreign investment or qualifying property investment and can maintain that investment.
- Country
- Colombia
- Applicant basis
- Qualifying investment
- Responsible authority
- Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
- Official route status
- Current official route
- Information available
- Detailed guide
- Last checked
- 2026-08-07
Supported requirements
What the current source supports
- Direct-investment branch: document foreign direct investment above 650 Colombian statutory monthly minimum wages (SMLMV) at the application date, including the applicable Banco de la República registration evidence.
- Property branch: document qualifying real-estate investment of at least 350 SMLMV, together with title and the applicable investment-registration evidence.
- Provide the current passport, recent solvency evidence, health coverage, and any identity or case-specific evidence required by the visa authority.
- Apostille or legalize foreign public documents as applicable and provide an official Spanish translation when the document is not in Spanish.
- File through the SITAC electronic visa system. Applicants outside Colombia use the competent consular channel; regularly present applicants inside Colombia use the Bogotá authority.
Applicant scope
Who this route generally serves
- Generally designed for
- Applicants able to document the applicable investment branch in their own name and maintain it for later applications.
- Legal basis named by the authority
- Resolution 5477 of 2022, Article 79 and the accumulated-time rule in Article 90, as currently amended.
Route lifecycle
What to confirm from application onward
- Financial basis
- More than 650 SMLMV for the direct foreign-investment branch, or at least 350 SMLMV for the qualifying property branch. SMLMV is an indexed Colombian unit, so no USD conversion is presented.
- Government service fees
- The visa process uses separate application-study and issuance payments. Confirm the current official tariff and payment instructions before paying; no numeric fee is hard-coded here.
- Administrative service targets
- Current visa instructions describe up to 30 calendar days after a complete paid application. This is an administrative target, not a processing guarantee.
- Initial status
- Migrant (M) investor visa, valid for up to three years under the current resolution.
- Renewal
- A later application must prove that the qualifying investment or property investment was maintained. Renewal remains a separate decision and is not guaranteed.
- Dependents
- A qualifying family member may use the separately administered beneficiary-visa procedure. Investor status does not automatically grant dependent status.
- Work rights
- The investor basis does not establish unrestricted local work rights, and this guide does not infer them.
- Presence considerations
- The cited route packet does not establish a route-specific absence rule for maintaining this visa.
- Permanent residence
- Five accumulated years in the qualifying M investor category may support a separate Resident (R) application. Time alone does not guarantee approval.
- Citizenship relationship
- Citizenship is a separate process and is not established by this investor route.
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.