Investor Visa Legal Services
Transform Your Investment Dreams into Reality with Our Investor Visa Service: Invest in a Financial Product or Real Estate in Colombia
If you're ready to capitalize on the growth opportunities in Colombia, our Investor Visa is your gateway to making impactful investments in this vibrant economy, whether in a financial product or real estate. This visa allows you to establish while enjoying the benefits of living in one of Latin America's most dynamic markets. With our expert guidance, you'll navigate the application process seamlessly, ensuring that you meet all necessary requirements. Embrace the potential of Colombia and watch your investments flourish!
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Is the Investor Visa Right for You?
This visa is perfect for you if you want to establish permanent residency in Colombia and accumulate time toward a resident visa, but you lack employment or family ties, and your country of nationality is not part of Mercosur or the Andean Community.
If you have the financial means and wish to invest in either a financial product or real estate in Colombia, this visa offers you the opportunity to do so while enjoying all the benefits of living in this growing country.
If you are thinking in a Business Investment, please note that the Visa for that case is the Partner or Owner Visa, wich is a different visa. Please click here to get to know the Partner or Owner Visa.
Visa Duration
From 1 to 3 years.
Allows to Work in Colombia?
Resolution 5477 of 2022 does not specify that a foreign holder of this visa is prohibited from working in Colombia. Based on our experience, when the Colombian visa regulations do not explicitly state a prohibition, it generally means that the activity is permitted. However, given the discretionary authority of officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, we cannot guarantee that this prohibition will not appear on the visa.
Allows Beneficiaries?
Yes, this visa allows beneficiaries according to the definition of Beneficiary Holder established in Article 3 of the present Resolution.
Visa Application Costs
Government fees: $54 USD study + $270 USD issuance (M) + Cédula $294,000 COP.
Legal Services: Essential $550 USD, Protected $760 USD, Turnkey $2,900 USD all-in titular. Government fees not included except in Turnkey. Exact quote depends on your case.
Visa Restrictions
The visa is contingent upon maintaining the investment or property ownership. Any changes in the investment status must be reported to the Visa and Immigration Authority.
Visa Bennefits
With this visa the holder can reside and carry out any legal activity in Colombia. Likewise, if the holder accumulates 5 years with this visa continuously and uninterruptedly, he or she can apply for a Resident visa for accumulated time.
Can you accumulate residency time?
Yes, for foreigners who have stayed in the national territory as holders of a Migrant (M) visa under this category, the time can be accumulated toward applying for a resident visa. For this type of visa, the accumulation of time is 5 years.
Processing Time
Generally, from 2 to 5 weeks, but it may vary depending on the specific circumstances of each application.
Application Location
Can be applied for from within Colombia or from the applicant's country of residence or nationality.
Specific Requirements
Foreign Direct Investment Documentation: Provide communication from the International Exchange Department of the Bank of the Republic confirming the registration of the foreign direct investment in your name, with an amount exceeding six hundred fifty (650) legal minimum monthly wages (smlmv) as of the date of application. This is currently is $1,135,473,300 COP wich is equivalent (Jan 2026) to $310,944USD.
Real Estate Investment Documentation: If investing in real estate, you must provide:
A Certificate of Tradition and Freedom for the property solely owned by the foreign investor, valued at a minimum of three hundred fifty (350) smlmv as of the application date. This currently is $611,408,700 COP that equates to approximately $167,431 USD.
Communication from the International Exchange Department of the Bank of the Republic confirming the registration of the foreign direct investment for the purchase of real estate in the foreign applicant's name.
Business Investment: Remember that if you are looking for a Visa from business investments, your have the Partner or Owner Visa, wich is a diferent visa than the Investor Visa. Click here to know this visa.
Proof of Economic Solvency: Bank statements for the last three months preceding the visa application demonstrating economic capacity to remain in the country.
Investment Maintenance:
If applying for this visa for the second time or subsequent times, the foreigner must demonstrate that the investment or property ownership was maintained throughout the validity of the previous visa.
Health Coverage:
Proof of health coverage in Colombia or an insurance policy covering all risks in the national territory, including accidents, illness, maternity, disability, hospitalization, death, or repatriation, for the duration of the stay in the country.
Want to learn more about the Investor visa details, requirements, and benefits? Read our comprehensive guide below!
Why to choose us
Senior lawyers only
We are fully licensed immigration attorneys, not intermediaries or document runners. Led by Camila Ocampo — Universidad de los Andes 2007, 15+ years of practice, years leading high-volume immigration strategy for hundreds of foreign nationals at one of Colombia's leading business law firms in Colombia, and advanced specialization in Law and Migration at Los Andes 2025.
We only hire attorneys with more than 3 years of exclusive Colombian immigration experience, and the same senior attorney owns your file from first call to foreign ID in hand.
Sofi, your 24/7 immigration companion
Sofi is our private client app beside your attorney. She tells you in plain English what this visa needs and why, with templates and examples. Upload from your phone — she flags expired files, blurry photos, missing signatures or seals before lawyer review. Live status, deadline reminders, and everything in one ordered file, not scattered chats. Your senior attorney decides strategy and signs filings. Sofi removes waiting so senior hours go to winning.
Total price transparency
Immigration is stressful enough. You approve a fixed legal fee in writing before we start. Government fees are listed separately at official cost with receipts. Partner costs are fixed upfront. If extra work is needed, we explain why, quote it fixed, and proceed only with your approval. No surprise charges, ever..
Commitment to Success
We only accept your case after a viability check — no legal path, no fee. Once we accept, we fight for approval. Decisions are discretionary, so if officers request more or deny, we dissect the reasoning, strengthen evidence, and re-file. Your proposal states what adaptation is included; anything extra is fixed-quoted upfront. Never abandoned, never surprised — that is why clients refer us and reviews mention denials turned into approvals.
Reputation you can verify before you pay.
Word-of-mouth is our main source of clients. Find our client reviews on Google and Lawzana. — real cases, including prior denials turned into approvals — and our public guides and newsroom where we publish real costs, shifting Ministry criteria and timelines. We are a private Colombian law firm, members of Colbar, operating 100% online with formal agreements, upfront payment, careful handling of your data, and zero tolerance for false documents or bribery.
Camila Ocampo & Mariangela Colmenares
What services do we offer for this visa?
You don't need a lawyer to get a visa in Colombia. Let's start there.
The entire process is online and no platform requires a legal representative. That is why most foreigners don't hire one: the process itself is already costly, there is free information on the web, YouTube, Facebook, and AI explains the process and requirements quite well.
But for cases that mean reuniting with loved ones, a one-time investment, medical treatment, retiring in the country or the long-awaited life change, the barriers invite hiring an immigration lawyer:
Officers with discretionary power to request documents not required by law or to declare inadmissible even a complete file.
Three different platforms (SITAC, Migration Single Form and the Migration Colombia appointment system) that reflect the country's bureaucracy.
Expiring tourist permits or a visa about to expire.
Or the very complexity of meeting the requirements of some visas.
Our mission is twofold:
For those who don't hire, we publish updated guides with real experiences by consulate, nationality and visa type.
For those who do need to delegate their immigration strategy, we designed a service to break down those barriers without promising the impossible.
From fee per visa to case complexity
For years we worked with a flat fee per visa type. Now the fee also reflects the complexity of the case.
Everything starts with an initial consultation. There we locate the complexity and the strategy with a real chance of success. At the close of the consultation a visa and a hiring option are recommended:
Essential Plan — complete and verified filing. The most affordable ($550 USD) with fewer services. Includes strategy, checklists and templates, preparation and review, guidance on certificates, translations, legalization and insurance, SITAC filing, regular tracking, registration guidance and our 24/7 guide app. Government fees are paid by the applicant. Responses, re-filings, extensions or ID appointments, if needed, are fixed-quoted per event.
Protected Plan — for what the process normally requires ($760 USD). Includes the same as Essential, plus: 1 extension request (government payment separate), up to 2 translations, up to 2 requirement responses, up to 1 re-application for inadmissibility without legal fees, up to 2 ID appointments. Government fees separate.
Turnkey Plan — zero friction with third-party payments. Includes the same as Protected and we also handle and pay for the main applicant the covered fees and services per written proposal: studies, issuance, extensions, safe-conducts, ID card, marriage registrations, U.S./Canada background checks plus apostille where applicable, required translations, appointments, pickup with power of attorney and international shipping. Flat fee 2,900 USD, 50% at signing and 50% at filing. Dependents always separate.
Official fees for this visa in the Costs box. 54 USD non-refundable study at filing. Issuance only if approved (V 177 / M 270 / R 400 USD). ID card 294,000 COP. Each dependent requires its own study, issuance and ID, plus 350/200/100 USD fees according to the main applicant's plan.
If the case has a clear legal path, we say so in the consultation. If it doesn't, we say so too. No impossibles, no surprises: every additional item is fixed-quoted and only moves forward with prior approval.
Hire us to legally assist you from only $550 USD, ensuring expert guidance and support throughout your journey.
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