Visas · Rentista visa
The rentista visa: passive income you can evidence, month after month.
Colombia grants a visitor visa to a foreigner with periodic income above the legal threshold, certified by a public entity or a recognised private company, or evidenced by Colombian assets producing that income. Note the category: this is a visitor visa, so time on it does not build towards permanent residency.
- Income certified, or Colombian assets that produce it.
- The threshold is monthly and set in minimum wages.
- A visitor category: it does not lead to the R visa.
Visa V — Rentista · Article 56 of Resolución 5477 de 2022
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Category
V · Visitor
Duration
Granted for up to two years.
Work permit
No work permit attaches to this visa.
Counts towards residency
None. Rentista sits in the visitor category, so unlike the pensionado, investor and business owner visas it accumulates nothing towards the R resident visa. If long-term residency is your goal, this is the wrong door to come through.
The financial threshold
Written in law as minimum wages, not in pesos.
Colombian visa thresholds move every January with the minimum wage, and article 79 measures them at the date you file. The peso figures below are calculated from the 2026 wage, currently $1.750.905 a month, set transitionally by Decreto 0159 de 2026.
Minimum monthly income
$17.509.050per month
At least 10 monthly minimum wages
Article 56 requires 10 minimum wages a month in periodic income.
Requirements
What the file has to prove.
Consulates apply these differently in practice, and the detail changes between resolutions. Treat this as the shape of the file, then have it confirmed for your nationality before you submit.
- Periodic income at or above the threshold, certified by a public entity or a recognised private company.
- Alternatively, proof of assets situated in Colombia that produce that income.
- Bank statements showing the income actually arriving.
- A valid passport and health cover valid in Colombia.
- Where the income arises in Colombia, a public accountant's certification is commonly expected.
Who does what
We are accountants. That is precisely why this works.
This visa turns on a financial fact somebody has to establish and certify. That is our work, and it is where applications fail. The immigration filing is prepared with the firm’s immigration counsel, briefed and supervised by us, so one team holds the whole file and you deal with one point of contact.
Handled by the firm
The financial half, signed by a licensed accountant.
- The public accountant's certification of income, signed by a licensed Colombian public accountant.
- Structuring Colombian rental income so it is documented, declared and consistent with what we certify.
- The tax position once you spend most of the year here and become resident.
- Your Colombian tax return, including foreign income and foreign assets.
- Registering the foreign investment behind the income where it entered Colombia from abroad.
Coordinated by the firm
The immigration filing, by counsel we brief and supervise.
- The visa application and the consular filing.
- Foreigner registration and the cédula de extranjería.
We do not present coordinated work as our own, and we do not quote processing times or predict approvals. Those belong to the authorities.
The part most sites get wrong
What this visa does to your tax position.
Someone who qualifies for this visa usually intends to live here, which means crossing 183 days and becoming a Colombian tax resident. At that point the same income used to obtain the visa forms part of a Colombian worldwide-income return, and assets held abroad are reported too. Model this before you apply, not in the March after you arrive.
After approval
Foreigner registration and the cédula de extranjería.
Register within
15 calendar days from entering Colombia, or from the date the visa is issued if it was granted while you were in the country
Apply for the cédula
at the moment of registration, or within 3 business days where the registration was completed electronically
Applies to holders and beneficiaries of any visa valid for more than three months, and is issued by Migración Colombia. The exemption list covers tourism, business, crew, events and two courtesy categories are exempt regardless of the visa's validity. Source: Decreto 1067 de 2015, articles 2.2.1.11.4.1 and 2.2.1.11.4.4, and Resolución 9316 de 2024.
In short
The essentials, in three lines.
- 01Colombia's V rentista visa, under article 56 of Resolución 5477 de 2022, requires periodic income of at least 10 monthly minimum wages, certified by a public entity or recognised private company, or produced by assets situated in Colombia.
- 02It is granted for up to two years and carries no work permit.
- 03Because it is a visitor category rather than a migrant one, time held on it does not count towards the R resident visa.
Questions
What people ask about this visa.
No. This category is for periodic income that arrives without you working for it, certified by a public entity or a recognised private company, or produced by assets you hold in Colombia. Employment income and client work point to a different category, typically the digital nomad visa where you qualify for it.
No, and it is the most consequential thing to understand about it. Rentista is a visitor category under article 56, and the qualifying periods for the R resident visa are built on migrant categories. If permanent residency is the objective, the pensionado, investor or business owner routes are the ones that accumulate time, and that choice has to be made at the start rather than two years in.
Yes. Article 56 contemplates assets situated in Colombia producing the income. That rental income is Colombian-source and is taxable here whether or not you are a resident, so it needs to be properly declared, and the certification supporting your visa should agree with what has actually been filed. Preparing the two together is the only sensible way to do it.
The purpose is to show the income is periodic rather than a one-off transfer, so consistent bank statements alongside the certification is the practical standard. The precise period expected can vary by consulate, which is one of the details the immigration counsel we work with confirms before filing.
Who answers
The accountant who signs the certification, not a call centre.
Kathiuska Villegas Padilla is a Colombian Contadora Pública with a postgraduate specialization in Tax Management. Where a visa file needs a shareholding certificate, an income certification or evidence of registered investment, it carries her signature and she answers for it.
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Other routes into Colombia.
M · Migrant
Investor visa
For foreigners with registered direct investment, or Colombian real estate above the legal threshold.
Read moreM · Migrant
Business owner visa
For foreigners who own or hold a stake in a Colombian company with capital above the threshold.
Read moreV · Visitor
Digital nomad visa
For remote workers earning from abroad. The tax question it raises is the important one.
Read more
Where this comes from
- Resolución 5477 de 2022, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
- Cancillería, visa requirements by category
Verified on 10 September 2026 against the consolidated text of Resolución 5477 de 2022 and its amendments. Immigration rules change by resolution and consulates apply them differently in practice. This page is general information about how the financial requirements work, not immigration advice, and nothing here is a promise of approval or of a processing time.
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Start with the number the application turns on.
Before anything is filed, someone has to establish the investment, the capital or the income, and be willing to certify it. That is where we start, and it is the part that decides whether the file is worth submitting.
What decides your tax position
183 days
Tax residency starts at 183 days of presence in any rolling 365-day window. No visa category changes that, and the tax authority has said so in a published ruling.
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