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Gaceta Oficial Digital No. 29136 (16 de octubre de 2020): Decreto Ejecutivo No. 722 de 15 de octubre de 2020, que crea dentro de la categoría de Residente Permanente por Razones Económicas, la subcategoría de Residente Permanente en calidad de Inversionista Calificado
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What the document holds
Gaceta Oficial 29136 (16 Oct 2020), 38 pages; pp. 2-13 and 18-37 are scans read by OCR (spa+eng), pp. 14-17 are maps with a text layer. Out of scope: Ministry of Environment resolution DM 0306-2020 delimiting the Santa María river basin (pp. 8-17), MEF Resolution 014-2020 on treasury bills, Procuraduría resolutions on meal allowances, municipal land awards and ANATI edicts (pp. 18-37). In scope, pp. 3-7: Decreto Ejecutivo 722 of 15 Oct 2020 creating the Qualified Investor subcategory: overall minimum B/.500,000 of foreign funds (art. 2) with MICI certification; routes (art. 3): real estate B/.500,000, presale contract B/.500,000 via local trust, securities B/.500,000 via the Bolsa de Valores held 5 years, fixed deposit B/.750,000 for 5 years; fees B/.5,000 + B/.5,000 repatriation deposit, dependants B/.1,000 + B/.1,000 (art. 4); 5-year maintenance with annual MICI confirmation (art. 5); special processing window (art. 7); decision within 30 working days (art. 8); filing from abroad through an attorney (art. 9); transitional B/.300,000 for real estate for 24 months and switch for 2020 Solvencia applicants (art. 10); in force on promulgation (art. 11). No statistics. Already in tables: t-926941d879, t-de6c73134f, t-db439da501, t-fce91dcfaf, t-1bb1eb6a20, t-21e6af5e30, t-3e97f07cc3, t-5ea3c0dfe5, event e-69b39fe5ea. Added in this pass: overall minimum (art. 2), dependants' repatriation deposit, 5-year holding period, 30-working-day maximum and the Solvencia switch event.
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Rules and prices (12)
- Property purchasemain applicant; directly or through a presale contract; transitional, first 24 monthsPAB 300,00016 Oct 2020 – 13 Oct 2022 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Minimum investment for any optioneach main applicant; overall minimum from foreign sources, personally or through a company of which the applicant is always the final beneficiaryPAB 500,00016 Oct 2020 – 15 Oct 2024 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Property purchasemain applicant; property free of liens; standard amount in art. 3PAB 500,00016 Oct 2020 – 15 Oct 2024 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Off-plan property purchasemain applicant; presale contract paid through a trust at a local bank or trust companyPAB 500,00016 Oct 2020 – 13 Oct 2022 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Investment in shares or securitiesmain applicant; securities bought through a licensed broker on the Bolsa de Valores de Panamá, held 5 yearsPAB 500,00016 Oct 2020 – 16 Sep 2026 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Depositmain applicant; fixed-term deposit of at least 5 years at any general-licence bankPAB 750,00016 Oct 2020 – 16 Sep 2026 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Processing feeeach dependant; application fee to the National Treasury (plus B/.1,000 repatriation deposit)PAB 1,000Since 16 Oct 2020 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Processing feemain applicant; application fee to the National TreasuryPAB 5,000Since 16 Oct 2020 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Holding period for the investmentmain applicant; investment must be maintained, with MICI confirming it to the SNM every year for five years5 years16 Oct 2020 – 16 Sep 2026 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Maximum processing timeSNM decision on the application, from receipt at the special processing window30 working days16 Oct 2020 – 16 Sep 2026 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Repatriation deposit per dependanteach dependant included in the application; repatriation deposit to the SNMPAB 1,000Since 16 Oct 2020 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
- Repatriation depositmain applicant; repatriation deposit to the SNMPAB 5,000Since 16 Oct 2020 · Gaceta Oficial Panamá 2020Panama · Qualified Investor Program
About the document
What it covers Founding decree of the Qualified Investor Program, pp. 3-7: B/.500,000 real estate, presale contract via trust, or securities; B/.750,000 fixed-term deposit; fees; five-year holding; 30-working-day decision; art. 10 transitional B/.300,000 for real estate during first 24 months.
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. Full gazette issue stored (38 pages, 22 MB). Also on the SNM site: https://www.migracion.gob.pa/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DECRETO_EJECUTIVO_722.pdf (download failed repeatedly).
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