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Provisional Investor Visa

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What investment option or options qualify?

Capital investment in an investment activity that must be registered under the Foreign Investment Act 2005; the visa is for entering the Solomon Islands to explore investment opportunities.

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  • No list of eligible sectors or asset types is given; the Regulation 2013 is a scanned PDF.

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

Applicants must pass a points test with a pass mark of 5. Core-point tiers are commitments to capital investment in the first 12 months of SBD 1–2 million, SBD 2–7 million, or at least SBD 7 million; a bonus criterion is demonstrated liquid capital of at least SBD 2 million. Government fees are separate: SBD 400 application fee plus SBD 1,900 on grant.

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Limits of the record
  • The points attached to each tier are not reliably extractable from the text layer (table columns separated), so it is not stated here whether a tier alone reaches the pass mark.
  • Conversion from a visitor or business visa carries extra fees (SBD 7,000 / SBD 2,000) not listed in the value.

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

Holders must give the Director of Immigration a progress report after each year of the visa, and may only work in the approved FIA-registered activity; a new activity must be re-registered and provide ongoing employment to Solomon Islands citizens and significant exports. 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 holding period or physical-presence rule is stated.

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

A provisional 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, valid 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.

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 Provisional 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.

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

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