Established Investor Visa

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What investment option or options qualify?

The qualifying investment is an investment activity registered under the Foreign Investment Act 2005 and managed by the applicant; the applicant must already hold a provisional investor visa or an established investor visa.

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Limits of the record

Source is the official application form (Form 7), not a policy page; it names no list of eligible sectors or asset types.

https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
To be eligible to apply for this visa the applicant must be the holder of a provisional investor visa or an established investor visa.
https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
Evidence of registration of the activity under the Foreign Investment Act 2005 and the ongoing management of the activity by the applicant must accompany this application.

What official minimum amount, tier or threshold applies to each relevant option?

Only government fees are stated: an SBD 400 application fee plus an SBD 1,900 fee on grant of the visa. No minimum investment amount for the established investor visa is stated.

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Limits of the record

No capital threshold is stated for the established investor visa; the provisional investor visa (prerequisite) carries a points test with capital-commitment tiers.
Immigration Regulation 2013 (reg. 42) not readable: scanned PDF.

https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
This application attracts a fee of SBD$400. This fee must be paid to the Ministry of Finance and the receipt attached to the application before the application will be accepted and processed. A further fee of SBD$1,900 applies to the granting of the visa

How long must the investment be maintained and what continuing ownership, investment or physical-presence conditions are important?

The holder may only work in the approved activity registered under the Foreign Investment Act 2005; changing activity requires new FIA registration, and the new activity must provide ongoing employment to Solomon Islands citizens and generate significant exports. The application asks whether the applicant is still a director and employs Solomon Islands citizens. The official source does not state a minimum holding period or a physical-presence rule.

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Limits of the record

No minimum period for maintaining the investment and no physical-presence rule is stated.

https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
NOTE: The visa holder must only work in the Solomon Islands in the approved activity registered under the Foreign Investment Act 2005 relating to the grant of this visa. If the visa holder wishes to change the investment activity, they must register the activity under the Foreign Investment Act 2005 and meet the immigration requirements as they relate to the new activity, including that the new activity must be providing ongoing employment to Solomon Island citizens and generating significant export activity for the Solomon Islands.
https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
Are you still a Director of the company involved in the investment activity:
https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
Are you employing Solomon Island citizens:

Which family members can be included where officially stated, and what broad residence/work rights result?

An established investor visa holder may sponsor a dependant: a spouse, a child under 18, or a person the Permanent Secretary accepts as ordinarily dependent. Dependants go on the foreign national dependant visa, which lasts until the sponsor's stay ends; employment is prohibited unless a work permit is granted under the Labour Act.

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Limits of the record

Family rules come from the general sponsorship form (Form 17) and the dependant visa form (Form 9), not from an investor-specific page.

https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-17-FAMILY-AND-FOREIGN-NATIONAL-DEPENDANT-SPONSORSHIP-FORM.pdf
This sponsorship form is to be completed by individuals who are either a Solomon Islands citizen, holder of a long-term employment visa, provisional investor visa, established investor visa or a special purpose visa who wish to sponsor a dependant for a stay in the Solomon Islands. Dependant is defines as a spouse, child under the age of 18 years old or a person whom the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Industries, Labour and Immigration is satisfied is ordinarily dependent on the sponsor.
https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
the stay in the Solomon Islands for a foreign national dependant visa is valid up to the last day of the period of stay for the visa held by the visa holder’s sponsor.
https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FORM-7-APPLICATION-FOR-AN-ESTABLISHED-INVESTOR-VISA.pdf
NOTE: Employment is prohibited under this visa unless a work permit is granted under the Labour Act.

What status is obtained, how is it renewed, what longer-term residence/citizenship direction is officially stated, and what happens to the investment when relevant?

The Established investor visa is a prescribed visa class with a maximum duration of 2 years; it is not among the classes excluded from extension and renewal (business, short-term employment, border). The official source does not state the renewal conditions, a longer-term residence or citizenship direction, or what happens to the investment.

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Limits of the record

Longer-term residence or citizenship direction is not stated.
What happens to the investment is not stated.
The renewal conditions are not stated.

https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Classes-of-Visa.pdf
7 Established Investor visa 2 years
https://immigration.gov.sb/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Classes-of-Visa.pdf
Please note that all classes of visa are subject for extension and renewal except for business, short term employment and border visa.

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

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Established Investor Visa

What investment option or options qualify?

What official minimum amount, tier or threshold applies to each relevant option?

How long must the investment be maintained and what continuing ownership, investment or physical-presence conditions are important?

Which family members can be included where officially stated, and what broad residence/work rights result?

What status is obtained, how is it renewed, what longer-term residence/citizenship direction is officially stated, and what happens to the investment when relevant?

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