Discover the residence, investment and nationality services available for your life in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria · A CLOSER LOOK
Plan beyond your first permission. Explore which services can support a longer-term path to settlement and citizenship, and understand the requirements at each stage.
Passport imagery represents the destination. Residence and citizenship are separate legal outcomes.
FIND YOUR PATHWAY
Explore the benefits, eligibility, requirements and long-term outcome of each route in Bulgaria.
Permanent-residence consideration through a qualifying investment under Bulgaria’s Foreigners Act.
Residency to citizenship
Each stage has its own eligibility requirements.
THE DEVISERS APPROACH
A clear path begins with a conversation. Our approach brings structure to a deeply personal decision.
We begin with your goals, the people who matter to you and the life you want to build.
Explore the relevant routes, their requirements and the commitments involved.
A considered application begins with clear guidance and carefully organised documentation.
Coordinate the application and understand the next steps in the official process.
Discuss arrival, renewals and the continuing support relevant to your chosen route.
A LITTLE MORE CLARITY
The application, qualifying conditions and outcome for Bulgaria.
Permanent Residence by Investment
Investment-specific assessmentQualifying investment: Complete the eligible investment and the supporting immigration procedure. Permanent residence: Obtain permanent residence by the approved investment basis and maintain the relevant obligations. Bulgarian citizenship · ordinary basis: Ordinarily, permanent or long-term residence must have been held for at least five years. Bulgarian language, income or occupation, criminal-record and nationality-release requirements apply, with statutory exceptions. This is the ordinary residence-based nationality route. The former accelerated citizenship-by-investment route is not being offered.
Establish that the exact investment meets a current statutory permanent-residence ground and obtain the relevant investment evidence or certification. Complete the applicable long-stay entry and Migration Directorate residence procedures, including identity and background checks. Investment residence does not provide the former fast-track investment citizenship route.
Eligible foreign investors using a statutory category such as qualifying Bulgarian company securities, concession rights or eligible collective/alternative investment funds.
Obtain Investment Agency pre-approval before investing. Provide identity, source-of-funds and investment evidence and satisfy the category’s capital and holding conditions. The Agency expressly states that pre-approval alone is not a basis for a long-stay visa or residence: the qualifying investment and immigration stages must follow.
An investment basis for a residence application, subject to immigration approval, it does not automatically confer citizenship.
YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Tell us what you have in mind.
We’ll help you explore what comes next.
