Belgium offers “golden visa” to wealthy entrepreneurs, big multinational companies and investors who start a business in Belgium. Belgium is an exciting country to live, work, study and do business with highest living standards in Western Europe.

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Belgium issues golden visa only under business route. It is not possible to get golden visa by buying a real estate property in Belgium.

To qualify for Belgian Golden visa,  first you have to incorporate a new large or medium scale Belgium company in manufacturing, production, services, IT consulting, R&D, Automotive, Transport & Logistics, Pharmaceuticals, Aerospace, Biotechnology, Information Technology etc. and also create jobs.

Your company should have a turnover of atleast 200,000 euros every year.

You will be given initially residence permit (D visa) to live in Belgium with yearly renewals. Family and children can apply for residency under “family unification” along with the investor.

The minimum costs for Belgium starts at €300,000 euros. For the first year, business expenses alone will come around 200,000 euros (lawyer fee, €25000 for capital, office expenses €3000 monthly, social contributions) and yearly running costs from second year will be cheaper €100,000.

After receiving the residence permit, there is no requirement to live in Belgium, if you are frequently traveling for Business or living permanently in another country. After 5 years of prolonging your residence permit, you will get Permanent settlement permit (PR).

Also in 5 years time, we will help you to naturalize, for Belgian citizenship (you will be EU citizen).  You can prove strong ties to Belgium, despite your absence in the country, citing “business” reasons at the time of applying for citizenship.

Belgium passport is ranked as one of the top european passports. It is also ranked No.5 in the world with visa-less travel to over 150 countries in the World.

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We, assist large multinational firms with setting up European office in Belgium. We offer full handholding service from start to finish, until passport stage. Please contact us for private consultation.