Source document
Decreto Ejecutivo No. 197 de 7 de mayo de 2021, que modifica y adiciona artículos al Decreto Ejecutivo No. 416 de 13 de junio de 2012 (Gaceta Oficial Digital No. 29290-A, 20 de mayo de 2021)
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CompleteReviewed 8 Oct 2026
Reviewed. Everything in it that belongs in the tables has been taken.
What the document holds
Decreto Ejecutivo 197 of 7 May 2021 (Gaceta 29290-A, 20 May 2021), 3 scanned pages read by OCR (spa+eng). Amends DE 416 of 2012 (Friendly Nations): recitals list the earlier amending decrees (DE 806 and 548 of 2012-2013, 1174 of 2013, 212 of 2014; not stored); art. 1 replaces the list of eligible nationalities (named countries, no count printed); art. 2 new art. 3: two-year provisional residence, then permanent; routes by employment (job letter, employer registry and operation notice, work permit) or real estate held personally worth at least B/.200,000, financeable by a local bank; dependants' documents; art. 3 permanent residence after two years; art. 5 in force 90 days after promulgation. No statistics. Already in tables: t-620fe3da7b (employment), t-7fac8bf918 (real estate B/.200,000), event e-16ab5c333a. This pass adds the two-year provisional period as a term.
What it supports
5 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.
Rules and prices (3)
- Property purchasenationals of listed countries; property held personally (from DE 226 also via a company or foundation); two-year provisional permit firstPAB 200,000Since 7 Aug 2021 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2021Panama · Friendly Nations residence
- Provisional residence periodnationals of listed countries; provisional residence before permanent residence can be requested2 yearsSince 7 Aug 2021 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2021Panama · Friendly Nations residence
- Jobs to createnationals of listed countries; job offer letter, employer's registry certificate and work permitSince 7 Aug 2021 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2021Panama · Friendly Nations residence
About the document
What it covers Friendly Nations reform: updated country list; two-year provisional residence first; applicants must show a job (with work permit) or own real estate worth at least B/.200,000; permanent residence after two years.
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. Copy of the gazette pages as posted by the Servicio Nacional de Migración (3 pages).
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