Citizenship and residency
Property ownership can support an application for residency and, above a qualifying investment threshold, for citizenship. Here is the honest shape of it — including where our role ends.
For many of the investors we work with, the asset is only part of the reason for the purchase. Real estate ownership can support an application for a residence permit, and an investment above a qualifying threshold, held for a required period and meeting further conditions, can support an application for citizenship.
What we can do is make the property side of that straightforward: acquiring an asset that qualifies, obtaining the valuation and documentation the process requires, and ensuring the title and the transaction are in the form an application depends on. Getting this wrong at purchase is difficult to correct afterwards, which is why it belongs in the conversation before the plot is chosen rather than after.
What we do not do is act as your immigration adviser. Applications turn on personal circumstances, nationality, documentation and the rules in force on the day they are filed — none of which is a developer's competence. We work alongside the licensed advisers who handle that part, and we will say clearly when a question is one for them.
The two routes
Residence Permit
Ownership of residential property can support an application for a short-term residence permit, renewable subject to conditions, and typically extendable to immediate family. There is no minimum property value in the citizenship sense, but there are requirements around the type of property, its valuation and its location, and permits are not granted in every district.
Citizenship by Investment
An investment in real estate at or above the qualifying threshold, held for the required minimum period and supported by an official valuation and an annotation on the title, can support a citizenship application covering the applicant, spouse and dependent children. The threshold, the holding period and the documentary requirements are set by regulation and have been revised more than once.
How the property side runs
Establish the Objective First
Residency and citizenship have materially different requirements. Which one you are pursuing changes what property qualifies, so it is settled before a plot or a unit is chosen rather than after.
Confirm Eligibility for Your Nationality and the Site
Acquisition rights vary by nationality, and some locations are restricted regardless of nationality. We verify the current position for your case rather than relying on a general rule.
Select Property That Qualifies
Not every asset supports every route. We identify options that meet the requirements for your objective and are sound as investments on their own merits — which is the part that still matters if the rules change.
Valuation and Documentation
An official valuation report and the transaction documents an application depends on are obtained and prepared in the required form.
Acquisition and Title Annotation
The purchase completes and, where the route requires it, the commitment not to sell for the required period is annotated on the title.
Application, With Your Adviser
The application itself is filed by you and your licensed immigration adviser. We provide the property documentation it rests on and answer questions about the asset.
Please read this
This page is general information, not legal or immigration advice, and it is not an offer or a guarantee of any immigration outcome. Qualifying thresholds, holding periods, eligible property types and documentary requirements are set by regulation, differ by nationality, and have been revised more than once — anything written here may have changed by the time you read it. No developer can promise that an application will succeed. Before making a purchase for these purposes, take advice from a licensed immigration adviser and confirm the requirements in force at that time. BASE REIC's role is the property: acquiring an asset that qualifies and providing the documentation an application depends on.