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Temporary Residence - Pensioner

EcuadorLiving from your own income

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Is this aimed at retirees, pensioners, financially independent people, passive-income holders or another profile?

This route is for retired foreign nationals who wish to settle in Ecuador and whose source of income is a retirement pension from public or private institutions based abroad.

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Which types of income/assets are accepted according to the official source?

The pension payment itself: a monthly retirement pension paid from a public or private institution abroad, certified by an official supporting document issued by the competent foreign institution.

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What income, savings or financial-resources threshold applies and how does family affect it where officially specified?

Pension must be equal to or greater than three Salarios Básicos Unificados (SBU) per month of the general worker. To include dependants the holder must show an additional USD 250 of monthly income per dependant.

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Can the holder work locally, run a business or perform other economic activity? What is the family position?

Foreign residents in Ecuador have the right to work and to social security under the general LOMH rule; the official source states no category-specific restriction. Family: to include dependants the holder must show an additional USD 250 of monthly income per dependant; dependant ('amparo') status is available for children, spouse or de facto partner.

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  • No category-specific statement on working or running a business; the answer relies on the general right to work of residents (LOMH Art. 51).

How long is the status granted, what is required for renewal, what physical-presence obligations matter, and what longer-term residence direction exists?

Temporary residences can be renewed multiple times. Longer term, 21 continuous months as a resident, with the application filed before the residence expires, can lead to permanent residence; for continuity of that period the holder may not be absent for more than 90 days during the whole validity of the temporary residence visa. The official source does not state the length of the pensioner temporary residence.

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Limits of the record
  • The length of the pensioner temporary residence visa is not stated in the captured sources.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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