None of the 13 active residency-by-investment programmes in the registry admits a principal applicant's parents unconditionally — 7 admit financially dependent parents (Greece Golden Visa, Hungary GIVP, Italy Investor Visa, Luxembourg Investor, Malta MPRP, Panama Qualified Investor, and Portugal Golden Visa) while 6 do not admit parents at all — per each programme's official regulator, verified 2026-07-16 to 2026-08-19.
Official-source programme facts
Golden Visas That Admit Parents 2026
Parent-admission rules across every active residency-by-investment programme in the source-verified WhereNext golden-visa facts registry — unconditional, dependency-only, and not-admitted classes kept explicit per official source.
Freshness: rows verified Scope: programme facts, not personal immigration advice
Verified rows
Parent admission across active programmes
Listed alphabetically across all active residency-by-investment programmes — including those that do not admit parents, so absence is visible rather than implied.
Programme
Parents
Headline minimum
Official source
🇨🇾Cyprus PR
Cyprus Permanent Residence by Investment
Open, with reforms.Annual-income requirement raised from €30K to €50K (2023 reform). The Cyprus Parliament was considering a major reform of the programme as of June 2026 (not yet enacted); further tightening is expected as Cyprus prepares for Schengen accession.
Parents/in-laws already excluded (2023). Citizenship fast-track removed (2026). Programme likely to tighten further with Schengen accession.
Greece Golden Visa (Investor Permanent Residence Permit)
Open, with reforms.Law 5275/2026 reshaped the tiers; a short-term-rental registration freeze applies in central Athens (districts 1–3, through end-2026) and Thessaloniki (from Mar 2026) — an urban registry rule, not a Golden-Visa threshold change.
Reformed in 2024 rather than closed; unlikely to close outright but thresholds may rise further.
Open, with reforms.New Immigration Law passed the Saeima 2026-06-11 (scraps the real-estate + subordinated-deposit routes, adds a €150K fund route, cuts equity-route validity 5→2yr); President returned it 2026-06-19, so the routes below remain in force pending the autumn re-vote. Source: PMLP + IMI Daily.
Latvia tightened due-diligence after 2022 Russian-applicant scrutiny. Residency permits issued before political shifts remain valid.
Open, with reforms.Legal Notice 146 of 2025 (July 2025) reformed fee structure: unified €37K government contribution, spouse+minor children free, adult dependants reduced to €7.5K.
Malta EU-scrutinised; IIP (passport sales) already closed in 2025. MPRP reformed rather than terminated but future tightening possible.
Parents are admitted only as dependants; each programme sets its own dependency test and may attach further conditions — see the official source.
Grandparents: dependent only
€99,000
€99K verified government fees post-L.N. 146/2025 (€60K administrative fee [€15K on submission + €45K on approval] + €37K contribution + €2K NGO donation; adult dependants €7.5K each). PLUS a mandatory property commitment: €375K purchase OR €14K/yr lease anywhere in Malta or Gozo (no lower tier) for 5 years (Residency Malta). True minimum entry ≈ €169K via the lease route.
Open.Real-estate minimum is B/.300,000 with no expiry date. Last amended by Decreto Ejecutivo 193 of 15 October 2024; no further change announced.
Open with no announced change. Legislated on three times in five years and the real-estate threshold has moved in both directions (B/.500,000 in 2022, back to B/.300,000 in 2024), so the figure is live policy rather than settled — but every amendment has extended the programme, and the 2024 decree added investor protections for pre-construction buyers.
Parents are admitted only as dependants; each programme sets its own dependency test and may attach further conditions — see the official source.
€276,000
~€276K (B/.300,000) real estate, free of liens. Whichever route you use, DE 722 art. 5 requires the investment to be maintained — or reinvested on the decree’s terms — for five years, with annual proof filed through MICI, or the residency is cancelled. The decree sets the amount as a floor (“la suma mínima desde”), not a temporary rate: there is no sunset date and no higher real-estate tier.
Gaceta Oficial de Panamá — Decreto Ejecutivo 193 de 15 de octubre de 2024
Verified
🇵🇹Portugal Golden Visa
Portugal Golden Visa (ARI)
Open.Nationality reform ENACTED: Lei Orgânica n.º 1/2026 published in Diário da República 18 May 2026, in force 19 May 2026. Citizenship clock now 7 years (Portuguese-speaking/CPLP + EU nationals) or 10 years (all others); pending applications keep the prior regime. Source: Diário da República + Ministério da Justiça.
Real estate removed 2023; citizenship timeline lengthened (Lei Orgânica 1/2026). Programme continues but politically less durable than a decade ago.
Parents are admitted only as dependants; each programme sets its own dependency test and may attach further conditions — see the official source.
Grandparents: dependent only
€250,000
€250,000 non-refundable cultural/heritage capital transfer is the cheapest route (Lei 23/2007 art. 90.º-A vi; a 20% low-density-territory reduction to €200K exists but is geography-restricted). (The fund route is €500K.)
UAE Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security (ICP)
Verified
🇺🇸USA EB-5
USA EB-5 Immigrant Investor Programme
Open.
EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act reauthorised the programme; USCIS states immigrant visas are authorised under the Regional Center Program through 30 September 2027, so that route (not the standalone route) carries a real statutory horizon. Set-aside categories stable. Separately, the investment amounts adjust for CPI-U every five years, first effective for petitions filed on or after 1 January 2027.
~€736K (USD 800,000) Target Employment Area (TEA) investment; USD 1,050,000 non-TEA. Amounts adjust automatically for CPI-U inflation for petitions filed on or after 1 Jan 2027 (EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act).
Methodology: The table covers every active residency-by-investment programme in the registry, including those that do not admit parents. Classifications describe what each PROGRAMME permits per its official source — they are not an assessment of any family's eligibility. Outside this residency-by-investment set, the registry records unconditional parent admission for Mauritius Residence, Nauru CBI, Thailand LTR; six active citizenship-by-investment programmes record dependency-only parent admission.
Data-derived answers
Frequently asked questions
Which residency-by-investment (golden visa) programmes admit the principal applicant's parents?
None of the 13 active residency-by-investment programmes in the registry admits a principal applicant's parents unconditionally — 7 admit financially dependent parents (Greece Golden Visa, Hungary GIVP, Italy Investor Visa, Luxembourg Investor, Malta MPRP, Panama Qualified Investor, and Portugal Golden Visa) while 6 do not admit parents at all — per each programme's official regulator, verified 2026-07-16 to 2026-08-19.
What does “dependent parents only” mean here?
It reflects each programme's official rule that a parent qualifies only with proven financial dependency on the principal applicant — the registry taxonomy never rounds this up to unconditional admission. The 7 programmes in this class are Greece Golden Visa, Hungary GIVP, Italy Investor Visa, Luxembourg Investor, Malta MPRP, Panama Qualified Investor, Portugal Golden Visa.
Do any programmes admit parents without a dependency condition?
Not within the active residency-by-investment set. Per the registry, unconditional parent admission exists only in other categories: Mauritius Residence, Nauru CBI, Thailand LTR. These sit outside this table's scope by definition.
This is a neutral programme-facts reference based on official-source registry records. It does not assess a person’s circumstances or replace advice from a licensed immigration professional.