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Gaceta Oficial No. 30613 (16 de septiembre de 2026): Decreto Ejecutivo No. 17 de 8 de septiembre de 2026, que subroga el Decreto Ejecutivo No. 722 de 15 de octubre de 2020 y sus modificaciones, y dicta medidas económicas, migratorias y de inversión para la subcategoría de Residente Permanente en calidad de Inversionista Calificado

Gaceta Oficial de la República de Panamá · Law · 16 Sep 2026 · Panama

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Gaceta Oficial 30613 (16 Sept 2026), 41 pages; pp. 2-37 are scans read by OCR (spa+eng). Pp. 1-22 and 38-41: contents, Decretos 204 and 211 (appointments), DE 5 (environmental emergencies), DE 33 and 34 (Economy ministry) and commercial notices, all out of scope. Pp. 23-37: Decreto Ejecutivo 17 of 8 Sept 2026, replacing DE 722 and its amendments for the Qualified Investor subcategory: overall minimum B/.300,000 of foreign-source own funds (art. 2); MICI certificate rules (art. 3, 3-month validity, co-ownership); real estate B/.300,000 first sale / B/.500,000 secondary market (art. 4); valuation and appraisal rules (arts. 5-6); presale B/.300,000 via trust or 100% payment with bank instrument, 180-working-day substitution, 3-year cap (art. 7); securities B/.500,000 in private-equity/venture funds, Panamanian government debt or other registered securities, 5 years, 90-day restoration after market falls (art. 8); fixed deposit B/.750,000 at private banks or B/.500,000 at Banco Nacional/Caja de Ahorros, 5 years (art. 9); fees B/.5,000 + B/.5,000 repatriation deposit, dependants B/.1,000 + B/.1,000 (art. 11); 5-year maintenance with annual proof, 30-day notice, 90-day reinvestment (art. 12); naturalisation after five consecutive years (art. 14); processing maxima 15 working days (MICI) and 30 working days (SNM) (art. 15); filing from abroad (art. 16); new dependants B/.1,000 + B/.1,000 (art. 17); 12-month switch for Solvencia Económica holders, pre-15-Oct-2020 investments ineligible (art. 18); 6-month grandfathering (art. 19); subrogation of DE 722/109/193 (art. 20). No statistics. Route amounts, fees, deposit and naturalisation were already in the tables (t-2b6fc0b222, t-08807a143d, t-d0090088e5, t-0c2512386d, t-623ac85a5a, t-b1efe09d1b; fees noted on t-de6c73134f/t-3e97f07cc3; events e-3021dbfbd8, e-a1c0701293). This pass adds the art. 2 overall minimum, holding period, reinvestment window, processing maxima, certificate validity, new-dependant payments, the Solvencia switch event and an event listing the remaining procedural deadlines. Pass extract-gapfill-2026-10-09 (decision 8) added naturalisation after five consecutive years of residence (art. 14) from this decree.

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What it covers Pp. 23-37: new consolidated rules. First-sale real estate B/.300,000; secondary-market real estate B/.500,000; presale contracts B/.300,000 (max. three years on presale alone); securities B/.500,000 (private equity funds, Panamanian government bonds, other registered securities); deposits B/.750,000 at private banks or B/.500,000 at Banco Nacional de Panamá / Caja de Ahorros; fees; annual verification; naturalisation after five consecutive years (art. 14); transitional rules.

Notes Scanned gazette with no usable text layer; quotes were taken from a Spanish OCR (tesseract, spa model, 250 dpi) and checked against the page image by eye for the figures used. In force on promulgation (art. 21), i.e. publication on 16 Sept 2026. Also posted by the SNM: https://www.migracion.gob.pa/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Decreto-Ejecutivo-No.-17-de-8-9-2026.pdf

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