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Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia Business/Investor Visa (MISA license)
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A MISA (Ministry of Investment Saudi Arabia) license is the mandatory first gate for any non-Saudi, non-GCC national who wants to actually own and operate a business in the Kingdom — a separate, prior step to the Commercial Registration (CR) that follows it. This is genuinely distinct from the fee-based Saudi Premium Residency program (a separate route in this dataset): here, residency for the investor flows from actually licensing and running a real company, and the minimum capital required varies enormously by the specific business activity — from roughly SAR 500,000 for a typical services license up to SAR 26-30 million for a fully foreign-owned trading license (or about SAR 7 million with a Saudi partner holding 25%+ equity). Kafala-style employer sponsorship no longer applies to holders of a qualifying investment/premium-residency status following the 2025 reform, a real structural change from the historical model.
Cost: SAR 2,000 application fee
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