Greece Golden Visa, verified programme data (September 2026)

What is the minimum investment for Greece Golden Visa, as at September 2026?

The minimum qualifying investment for Greece Golden Visa is €250,000 via Real-estate investment (tiered 250k-800k), as at September 2026. Government, due-diligence and professional fees are additional.

Greece Golden Visa — published investment routes, as at September 2026

Route	Type	Minimum
Real Estate, Zone A (High-Demand Areas)	real estate	€800,000
Real Estate, Zone B (Other Regions)	real estate	€400,000
Commercial-to-Residential Conversion / Heritage Restoration	real estate	€250,000
Startup Investment (Active, Law 5275/2026, effective February 6, 2026)	business	€250,000

Family pricing

• One qualifying investment covers the whole family.
• Single applicant: €250,000.
• Included family members: spouse; unmarried children up to 21 (renewable to 24 if students); parents of both spouses (no upper age limit, no dependency proof).
• One qualifying investment covers the WHOLE family, the investment amount (EUR 250,000-800,000 depending on route/zone) does NOT increase with family size. Government application fee EUR 2,000 (main applicant) + EUR 150 per dependent aged 18+ (under-18 free).

Government and due-diligence fees

• Government application fee, main applicant: €2,000.
• Government application fee, per dependant: €150.

Greece Golden Visa figures verified against www.et.gr (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.

How long does Greece Golden Visa take to process?

Published processing time for Greece Golden Visa: 90 days statutory maximum (Law 5275/2026); practical timeline 3-9 months as authorities scale to comply with new statutory deadline, as at September 2026.

1. 1. Property search and selection (2-8 weeks)
2. 2. Legal due diligence and purchase agreement (2-4 weeks)
3. 3. Property acquisition and notarisation (1-2 weeks)
4. 4. Apply for Greek tax number (AFM) and open bank account
5. 5. Submit Golden Visa application to migration authority with all documentation
6. 6. Biometrics appointment at local immigration office
7. 7. Application review and background checks (8-16 weeks)
8. 8. Residence permit card issuance
9. 9. Permit renewal every 5 years (property must be retained)

Greece Golden Visa figures verified against migration.gov.gr (official source) on 2026-03-20 by the Mirabello data team.

What travel access does Greece Golden Visa provide?

Greece Golden Visa grants a residence permit, not a passport, as at September 2026. The permit's travel benefit: Schengen Area, visa-free travel across 27 European countries. For reference, the Greece passport itself reaches 185 destinations visa-free per Mirabello's tracked dataset — a residence permit does not confer that passport mobility.

Greece Golden Visa figures verified against migration.gov.gr (official source) on 2026-08-13 by the Mirabello data team.

What are the minimum stay and citizenship rules for Greece Golden Visa?

The residence and citizenship rules for Greece Golden Visa, as at September 2026:

• Minimum stay: Zero, no minimum days required to maintain the Golden Visa permit. Visit once to provide biometrics, then no physical presence needed for renewal.
• Path to citizenship: 7 years of actual residence in Greece (must spend majority of time in Greece, pass language exam, demonstrate integration)
• Eligibility: open to non-EU/EEA/Swiss nationals only. EU, EEA and Swiss citizens are not eligible for this programme.

Greece Golden Visa figures verified against migration.gov.gr (official source) on 2026-03-20 by the Mirabello data team.

Who regulates Greece Golden Visa?

Ministry of Migration and Asylum (Υπουργείο Μετανάστευσης και Ασύλου) administers Greece Golden Visa, a programme operating since 2013. Applications from €250,000 are governed by the official framework published at migration.gov.gr, as at September 2026.

Regulatory watchlists: not listed on FATF, EU tax, US OFAC, or OECD CRS-risk lists (as of 2026-06).

Greece Golden Visa figures verified against www.et.gr (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.

How fresh is this Greece Golden Visa data?

Every headline figure for Greece Golden Visa is provenance-tracked: each field carries a source URL, a source tier and a verification date, audited weekly.

Greece Golden Visa — data freshness, computed 2026-09-18

Measure	Value
Verification confidence	83 / 100
Last verified	2026-06-28
Headline fields tracked	7
Fields past freshness SLA	3

The identical data_freshness block for Greece Golden Visa is published machine-readable in /index.json, verified 2026-06-28.