On 6 July 2026, Resolution 407/2026 of Paraguay’s Directorate of Migration came into force. It did not make headlines, and almost nothing has been written about it in English. But if you are filing for permanent residency — including through the Investor Pass — it now shapes what goes in your folder.
The short version: Paraguay did not raise any threshold. It changed how you prove that you can support yourself, and it made the standard consistent across every route in.
What the resolution actually does
Three things, in order of how much they will affect you:
- It unifies two regimes. Applicants under Migration Law 6984/2022 and applicants under the Mercosur Residence Agreement were previously held to different — and inconsistently applied — solvency standards. There is now one standard for both.
- It defines twelve categories of economic solvency, each with its own documentary path. You no longer guess what counts; you pick the category that describes you and produce what it asks for.
- It requires verifiable income — documentary evidence of your earnings, plus proof that you actually carry out the activity you declared.
A smaller administrative change rode along with it: the profession field no longer prints on the admission card.
The twelve categories
Solvency can now be accredited as a professional, a technician, an employee, an independent worker in commerce or services, a remote worker or digital nomad, a property owner, a shareholder or partner in a company, a farmer or rancher, a religious worker, a retiree or pensioner, a dependent of someone in one of the above, or a student.
That list is worth reading twice. It is unusually broad, and it recognises several ways of being solvent that many countries still refuse to acknowledge — remote work and pure asset ownership among them.
The two categories that matter if you are investing
Property owners (propietarios de bienes inmuebles) and shareholders or partners (accionistas o socios) are named categories. If your plan is to buy Paraguayan real estate or to hold a stake in a Paraguayan company, the regulation now has a slot with your name on it.
That is genuinely good news, and we would rather say so plainly than manufacture alarm. But named is not the same as automatic. Being in the category tells you which door to use; you still have to walk through it with the right paperwork.
“Verifiable” is the operative word
The resolution asks for documentary evidence that allows income to be verified. In practice that is the difference between a file that clears and a file that comes back.
What tends to travel well:
- Bank statements covering a period, not a single balance on a single day.
- Tax returns or their equivalent from your home country.
- An employment or pension letter on letterhead, with contactable details.
- Corporate documents evidencing your shareholding — and, where the income is rental, lease contracts together with proof of the payments actually arriving.
- Title documents for property, properly registered.
What tends not to:
- A screenshot of a banking app.
- A self-declaration of income with nothing behind it.
- A letter from a company you control, attesting to money you pay yourself, with no filings to corroborate it.
- A balance that appeared last week and matches the requirement exactly. Sudden, precisely sized deposits invite questions.
What this does not change
- Investor Pass thresholds are untouched. The real-estate route still starts at USD 200,000. This resolution is about documentation, not about the size of the investment.
- There is no new minimum income figure being imposed on investors as a headline number.
- Presence rules are elsewhere. How much time you have to spend in the country is a separate question, covered in our article on presence requirements.
Why we read this as a good sign
Tightening documentation standards is what a residency programme does when it intends to last. The programmes that got shut down elsewhere in the world were, almost without exception, the ones that stopped asking questions. Paraguay asking for verifiable income is the cost of a programme that is still standing in ten years — which matters considerably more to you than a slightly easier file today.
It also, quietly, favours the prepared. A properly documented application was always faster. Now it is also the only kind that finishes.
If you are weighing what a complete file actually costs to assemble, see the full cost breakdown. And if someone is telling you none of this applies to you, read how to vet a residency firm first.