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No statutory investment minimum — approval hinges on ENISA's assessment of "special economic interest." Spain's real-estate Golden Visa is gone; this is not its replacement.
Spain's Golden Visa (the real-estate investment route) was abolished on 3 April 2025 by Organic Law 1/2025. The Entrepreneur Visa is not a substitute for it: it requires a genuinely innovative project, not just capital.
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- Entrepreneur Visa (Visado de Emprendedor), Art. 70 Law 14/2013 / Startup Law 28/2022
- Program category
- Starting an innovative company / Qualifying as an exceptional entrepreneur
- Current status
- Active and accepting applications
- Best suited for
- Non-EU founders of an innovative business assessed as being of "special economic interest" to Spain
- Overview
- Spain's Entrepreneur Visa has no statutory minimum investment — the qualifying factor is an innovative business plan assessed by ENISA (Spain's national innovation financing agency). Under a 2024 reform (RD 1155/2024), the permit structure was simplified to an initial period followed by a 4-year renewal. This is a fundamentally different program from Spain's former real-estate/investment Golden Visa (Arts. 63–67), which was abolished entirely on April 3, 2025 — the Entrepreneur Visa is not a replacement for it and has always had an innovation requirement rather than a capital-purchase requirement.
- Minimum investment
- No statutory minimum; qualifying factor is an ENISA-assessed innovative business plan
- Active involvement required
- Yes
- Residence status granted
- Initial residence authorization, simplified under 2024 reform to an initial period plus 4-year renewal
- Family inclusion
- Yes
- Spouse work rights
- Yes
- Permanent residence pathway
- Conditional — long-term residence after 5 years
- Assessment body
- ENISA (national innovation financing agency), via the UGE-CE large-companies unit
- Official source
- UGE-CE; BOE Law 14/2013; Startup Law 28/2022
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Our guide explains how this route works in practice and what to prepare first.
Read the Spain guide →Directional guidance only, not immigration advice. Confirm current ENISA assessment criteria before applying. Last verified September 15, 2026.