Source document
Decreto Ejecutivo No. 226 de 2021, que modifica artículos del Decreto Ejecutivo No. 416 de 13 de junio de 2012 y del Decreto Ejecutivo No. 197 de 7 de mayo de 2021 (Gaceta Oficial Digital No. 29335, 21 de julio de 2021)
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What the document holds
Decreto Ejecutivo 226 of 2021 (Gaceta 29335, 21 July 2021), 3 scanned pages read by OCR (spa+eng). Amends DE 416 (Friendly Nations) and DE 197: art. 1 replaces the nationality list again, adding Peru; art. 2 new art. 3: two-year provisional residence; employment route; real estate of at least B/.200,000 held personally, through a company of which the applicant is final beneficiary, or a private-interest foundation, financeable locally; new fixed-deposit route of at least B/.200,000 for at least three years at a general-licence bank, also through a company or foundation; dependants under DE 320; art. 3 sets 7 Aug 2021 as the start date of DE 197; art. 5 in force 7 Aug 2021. No statistics. All amounts already in tables: t-a013de09c8 (deposit B/.200,000), t-7fac8bf918 notes the corporate holding of property, event e-e27f852863; the two-year provisional period is added from DE 197 in this pass (restated here). Nothing new added from this document. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).
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Rules and prices (4)
- Depositnationals of listed countries; fixed-term deposit of at least 3 years at a general-licence bankPAB 200,000Since 7 Aug 2021 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2021Panama · Friendly Nations residence
- 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 Second 2021 Friendly Nations reform: adds Peru; property of at least B/.200,000 may be held via a company or foundation; new route of a B/.200,000 fixed-term deposit for at least three years; both decrees in force from 7 August 2021.
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 SNM. The decree number (226) is from the SNM link text; the day of the month on the signature page is illegible in OCR, so the gazette date is used.
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