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Lebanon Annual Residence Permit for Persons of Independent Means (blocked account or foreign income)
Lebanon · Middle East
Source: Mobility Asset DatabaseLifecycle: UnknownResidency-to-PassportIndependent Means Visas
Program facts from the CitizensOS Mobility Asset Database. Unknown facts are shown as Unknown, never as zero.
- Publication state
- Mobility Asset Database
- Lifecycle status
- Unknown
- Facts checked through
- Sep 21, 2026
- Source snapshots
- Database edition
Identity and current status
The route identity and current status.
- Year establishedUnknown
- Unknown
- Responsible authorityPublished
- General Directorate of General Security (Lebanon)
What the program provides
What the program gives the holder.
- What the program providesPublished
- Live in Lebanon on a blocked local bank account or foreign income, with a 3-year permit for a larger Treasury deposit
Best suited for
Who the program tends to suit. Research only, never a personal recommendation.
No governed customer claim is present for this section.
Eligibility
Personal qualifications an applicant must establish.
- Minimum ageUnknown
- Unknown
- Clean criminal record requiredUnknown
- Unknown
- Local health insurance requiredUnknown
- Unknown
- Nationality restrictionsUnknown
- Unknown
- Basic eligibilityPublished
- Blocked account in a Lebanese bank of LBP 1,000,000,000 (~US$11,170), held 3+ months, OR monthly income of LBP 50,000,000 (~US$559) from abroad; notarized undertaking not to work
- Generational limitPublished
- Not applicable
Household inclusion
How spouses and children are treated.
- Family sponsorshipPublished
- Yes
- Spouse includedPublished
- Yes
- Children includedPublished
- Yes
- Child age limitUnknown
- Unknown
- ChildrenPublished
- Family granted residence automatically on the holder's permit, except adult males whose applications are reviewed separately. 3-year route covers spouse, minor children and dependants over 64.
Documents
Evidence categories and filing documents.
No governed customer claim is present for this section.
Process and timeline
How you apply and how long it takes.
- Processing timeUnknown
- Unknown
- Can apply without travelingPublished
- No
- How you applyPublished
- In person at a General Security centre in Lebanon, with notarized no-work undertaking and bank statement or income proof
- Required in-person stepPublished
- Filing at a General Security centre in Lebanon
- What the processing time measuresPublished
- No published processing time
- Official application routePublished
- https://www.general-security.gov.lb/en/posts/241
Costs and investment
Fees, income and savings thresholds, and investment amounts.
- Minimum investmentPublished
- None required
- Minimum passive investment (July 2026)Published
- None required
- Minimum active investment (July 2026)Published
- None required
- Processing feeUnknown
- Unknown
- Application feePublished
- $201
- Total cost to applyPublished
- $201
- Monthly income requiredPublished
- $559/month
- Monthly pension income requiredUnknown
- Unknown
- Monthly rental income requiredUnknown
- Unknown
- Savings requiredUnknown
- Unknown
- Proof of sufficient fundsPublished
- Yes
- Local bank deposit requiredPublished
- No
- Minimum local bank depositPublished
- $11,173
- Fees paidPublished
- Before approval
- Cost notesPublished
- Annual residence fee LBP 18,000,000 (~US$201 at LBP 89,500/US$), 'all other categories' rate; urgent service +LBP 4,900,000. 3-year cash-guarantee permit: fee LBP 54,000,000 (~US$603) plus LBP 4,500,000,000 (~US$50,280) cash deposit with the Ministry of Finance Treasury.
Presence and maintenance
Stay, renewal, and how long the status lasts.
- Stay required to keep statusPublished
- None
- Physical presence requiredPublished
- No
- In-country visit requiredPublished
- Yes
- Move-in windowUnknown
- Unknown
- Length of residencyPublished
- 12 months
- Residency is lifetimePublished
- No
- RenewablePublished
- Yes
- Maximum durationUnknown
- Unknown
- Maximum duration is lifetimeUnknown
- Unknown
- Stay rule (Sept 2026)Published
- No minimum stay published by General Security; the permit is applied for and renewed yearly in Lebanon
- Tax residency rulePublished
- Residents are anyone with a home permanently available to their family in Lebanon, or present more than 183 days in any 12-month period (transit and medical-treatment days excluded)
- Personal income taxPublished
- range between 2%-25%
Rights and onward pathways
Work, healthcare and other rights, and the path to permanent residence and citizenship.
- Time to permanent residencyUnknown
- Unknown
- Time to citizenshipPublished
- 5 years
- Work for a local employerPublished
- No
- Start a businessPublished
- No
- Remote or freelance workUnknown
- Unknown
- Local healthcare accessUnknown
- Unknown
- University accessUnknown
- Unknown
- Can buy landUnknown
- Unknown
- Local bankingPublished
- Yes
- Citizenship timeline basisPublished
- Years stated
Risks, limitations, and uncertainty
Notes on changes, conflicts, and limits.
- Plan B note (Sept 2026)Published
- Qualify with a blocked local bank account of ~US$11,170 (~US$22,350 joint) OR ~US$559/month foreign income, so no deposit is strictly required; amounts are set in Lebanese pounds and converted at LBP 89,500/US$. A 3-year permit needs a ~US$50,280 cash deposit with the Treasury (source of the competitor's US$50k figure). Nationality Decree 15/1925 allows naturalization after 5 years' residence, but only by discretionary decree, rarely granted.
Sources, freshness, and conflict disclosure
Where the CitizensOS Mobility Asset Database took these facts from.
- Official program websitePublished
- https://www.general-security.gov.lb/en/posts/241
- Plan B sources (Sept 2026)Published
- https://www.general-security.gov.lb/en/posts/241 | https://www.general-security.gov.lb/en/posts/5 | https://www.general-security.gov.lb/en/posts/169 | https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/1925/en/115994 | https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/articles/1209227/sayrafa-rate-at-lbp-89500
Every fact on this page comes from the CitizensOS Mobility Asset Database (Sep 21, 2026 edition). A blank is shown as Unknown.
This anonymous dossier is read-only research. It does not establish personal fit, eligibility, legal or tax advice, filing, approval, residence, citizenship, or a held Right.