Investor visa cost in Oman: OMR 530 for one year, OMR 755 for two years

The figure is stated per applicant on purpose, because residence is granted to a human being rather than to a company. Two partners who both want two-year cards are two applications and two prices, not one. A single shareholder who wants a one-year card first and a longer one later is one application now and a renewal conversation later. Counting the applicants before anything else is the fastest way to work out what an Oman investor visa will actually cost you.

• OMR 530 buys the residence work for one applicant on a one-year card.
• OMR 755 buys the residence work for one applicant on a two-year card.
• The same two figures apply to an additional partner joining a company that already exists.
• Neither figure includes the Royal Oman Police residence card fee, which is published separately at OMR 6 and OMR 11.
• Neither figure includes the medical examination, which is charged by the approved centre that performs it.

If you do not have an Omani company yet, you will normally not pay this price at all. Company formation with investor residence is sold as one combined figure starting at OMR 980, and the residence work is already inside it. The standalone price exists for the case the formation packages do not cover: an existing company, and a person who needs to be put on it.

The same choice inside the formation packages is arithmetic on figures reviewed on 14 September 2026, and it is worth seeing performed rather than inferred:

The LLC line is the one that repays a second look. OMR 495 divided between two partners is OMR 247.50 each, against OMR 225 for a single applicant taking the same step alone. The two figures are close enough to confirm that the uplift is being charged per person rather than per company, which is exactly what you would expect from a price that follows applicants.

Is the longer card worth it? On our own prices, one applicant taking two consecutive one-year terms would pay OMR 530 twice, which is OMR 1,060, against OMR 755 for a single two-year term. That arithmetic is honest but it is not a promise, because renewal is quoted at the time and we have not published a renewal price. On the authority fee the comparison is exact and much smaller: two one-year cards cost OMR 12 against OMR 11 for one two-year card, a difference of OMR 1.

Partners do not have to choose the same validity. One partner can take a one-year card while another takes two years, and the quotation prices each person on the line that applies to them.

These are the only residence figures on this page that the Omani state publishes itself, and they are the reason we can separate an authority charge from a professional fee instead of blending both into one unexplained total. When you read your quotation, these are the lines that should be recognisable as government money passing through us rather than income to us.

One correction is worth publishing plainly, because it costs readers real money. A widely cited Oman business-setup site publishes an itemised government fee table that states a two-year residence card at OMR 50 and card renewal at OMR 25 to OMR 30. The Royal Oman Police publish OMR 11 for the same card. The competing table carries no official citation, and the same table asserts a minimum share capital requirement that Royal Decree 50/2019 removed. Where a third-party table disagrees with the authority that actually charges the fee, use the authority.

We are not publishing an itemised total for every other government charge in the residence journey, and the reason is the same one that makes the OMR 50 figure unsafe. The medical examination is priced by the approved centre, not by a published schedule. Ranges for entry permits and health screening circulate widely and we could not verify any of them on an Omani authority page on 14 September 2026. A total assembled from unverified lines looks more useful than one that omits them, and is worth less.

The two formation figures above are summarised here for comparison only. They are set out in full, with their inclusions and their government charges, on our company formation cost page, which is where formation pricing belongs. What this page owns is the person sitting inside that figure: one applicant, one validity choice, one residence card.

It is worth seeing what the residence element is implicitly worth in each case. The difference between the one-year and two-year one-person packages is OMR 270, and the difference between our standalone one-year and two-year visa prices is OMR 225. The gap between those two numbers is the extra company-side work in the longer package rather than a second residence fee, and your quotation states which lines carry which.

• Forming now, one shareholder, one-year card: the OMR 980 package, no separate visa price.
• Forming now, one shareholder, two-year card: the OMR 1,250 package, no separate visa price.
• Company already registered, one applicant, one-year card: OMR 530.
• Company already registered, one applicant, two-year card: OMR 755.
• In every case the Royal Oman Police residence card fee of OMR 6 or OMR 11 sits outside the figure.

As with the one-person figures, the two LLC prices are summarised here and explained in full on our company formation cost page. The part that belongs here is what happens to the price when the number of people changes, because that is the variable almost every enquiry turns on.

Compare the two-partner package against the one-person package and the people-driven structure is visible. OMR 1,510 against OMR 980 is a difference of OMR 530 for adding the second partner to a one-year case, and OMR 2,005 against OMR 1,250 is a difference of OMR 755 for adding the second partner to a two-year case. Those are exactly our standalone per-applicant residence prices. The second partner in an LLC package costs what a second applicant costs anywhere else on this page.

That consistency is the useful thing to take away. Whether a person arrives at the start as a co-founder, later as an incoming partner, or on their own on a company you already own, the residence work is priced the same way: OMR 530 for a one-year card and OMR 755 for a two-year card, per person.

A third or fourth partner is priced the same way as the first two, which makes the total easy to work out before you ask for a quotation. Three additional partners on one-year cards is three times OMR 530, or OMR 1,590. Three additional partners on two-year cards is three times OMR 755, or OMR 2,265. A mixed case, say two partners on two-year cards and one on a one-year card, is OMR 755 plus OMR 755 plus OMR 530, which is OMR 2,040.

Each of those people also needs a Royal Oman Police residence card, charged at OMR 6 for a one-year card or OMR 11 for a two-year card (rop.gov.om, read 14 September 2026), and each needs to attend in person for biometrics. The arithmetic above scales cleanly; the appointments do not, which is why a four-partner case is usually planned around one visit window rather than four separate trips.

The price turns on where the family member is standing when the work starts, and that is the single most useful thing to know before you book anyone’s flight. Bringing a spouse and two children from abroad is three times OMR 100, which is OMR 300. Doing the same work for a spouse and two children who are already in Oman on visit visas is three times OMR 260, which is OMR 780, a difference of OMR 480 on exactly the same family.

Each dependant also needs their own Royal Oman Police residence card at the published OMR 6 or OMR 11, and the same thirty-day rule from entry applies to them as to you (rop.gov.om, read 14 September 2026). The OMR 10 monthly penalty applies per person as well, which is the expensive way to learn that a family arriving together should be processed together.

Eligibility is a separate matter from price. Sponsorship rests on your own issued residence status rather than on the company you own, and the relationship rules, age limits for children and document list are set out on our family residence page. This page answers only what the work costs.

Naming the exclusions is more useful than listing the inclusions, because a hidden cost is the thing buyers of this service fear most and the thing most price pages leave vague. Two of the four exclusions below have a published figure, and we give it. The other two do not, and we say which body would have to publish it.

Document translation, attestation and courier charges also sit outside the figure where they arise, because they depend on which country issued your documents and how many of them need to travel. An applicant whose passport, degree and marriage certificate were all issued abroad will spend more on attestation than one whose papers were issued in a GCC state, and neither of those amounts is ours to set.

What is included is the work, and the work is the majority of the bill. That is worth saying plainly rather than hiding behind the phrase professional fee: on a one-year case, OMR 530 of service work sits next to OMR 6 of government charge. Anyone who tells you that an Oman investor visa is mostly government fees is describing a different country.

The Royal Oman Police require every expatriate resident to obtain a residence card within thirty days of entry, and the applicant must appear in person. Where the applicant’s nationality is on the published list, a medical fitness certificate attested by the Ministry of Health is required. Source: Royal Oman Police, rop.gov.om, read 14 September 2026.

In practice that means three steps bring an applicant to Muscat: the medical test where it applies, the biometric appointment, and the handling of original documents around card issuance. We plan that as a short visit rather than a long stay, and we say before you book a flight if the week looks tight. The process and its sequencing are set out in full on our investor visa guide; what belongs here is who pays for each step.

• Appointment booking, coordination and follow-up: inside the OMR 530 or OMR 755 price.
• Medical examination: paid to the approved centre, amount not published by any schedule we could verify.
• Residence card: OMR 6 for one year or OMR 11 for two years, paid to the Royal Oman Police.
• Late card penalty: OMR 10 per month, paid to the Royal Oman Police, entirely avoidable.
• Your own travel and accommodation for the in-person steps: yours.

Run the same split across the residence prices and the stages are: OMR 265, OMR 212 and OMR 53 on a one-year visa at OMR 530, and OMR 377.50, OMR 302 and OMR 75.50 on a two-year visa at OMR 755. Those are arithmetic on an approved price and an approved ratio rather than a separate price list, and your quotation remains the document that controls them.

The staged structure exists so that neither side is exposed to the other for the whole engagement. You are not asked to pay everything before anything happens, and we are not asked to carry a full case on an advance that has already been spent on authority charges. The middle milestone is tied to an approval we do not control, which is the honest place to put it.

Your quotation states how long the price is held, what happens if your case changes, and the cancellation and refund position. Ask for all four in writing before you pay. If a document is missing, a person is added, a validity choice changes or an authority asks for something new, that is a written change to the scope with its own price, agreed before the work is done rather than discovered on an invoice afterwards.

What can be stated now is the part the Royal Oman Police publish. A renewed residence card is charged on the same published schedule, at OMR 6 for a one-year card and OMR 11 for a two-year card, with the OMR 10 monthly penalty where an application is late (rop.gov.om, read 14 September 2026). The authority side of a renewal is therefore small and knowable. The service side depends on what the file looks like when the date arrives.

Renewal in practice is a re-presentation of the same case: a live commercial registration, current Chamber membership, a passport with room left in it, and the application made inside the window. It is refused on company paperwork far more often than on anything about the applicant, which is why the company renewal calendar and the residence renewal calendar have to be kept together. Company-side recurring costs sit on our annual renewal page.

The reason we will not print a renewal total is not caution for its own sake. An undated figure for work that happens in twelve or twenty-four months, priced against authority charges that may change, is a number that becomes wrong quietly. We would rather give you the published card fee, which will not move without the Royal Oman Police saying so, and quote the rest when it is real.

We are not publishing a threshold because the published amounts conflict. Otherwise reputable sources report different figures, some describing a single qualifying amount and others describing tiers attached to different terms, and the official portal at omanresidence.gov.om, read on 14 September 2026, publishes the programme and its qualifying routes without carrying a figure on its public pages. Printing one of the circulating numbers would make this page look more helpful and would risk sending someone to move a very large sum against a figure we cannot stand behind.

What we will say is which question you are probably asking. Almost every enquiry that reaches us using the phrase Oman golden visa is actually about ordinary investor residence for a shareholder in a small or medium Omani company, and that is the thing priced at OMR 530 and OMR 755 above. Golden Residency suits a different applicant with a different amount of capital and a different time horizon, and the routes are described on our investor visa guide.

Where nationality does appear in the published rules is the medical certificate. The Royal Oman Police name a list of nationalities for which an attested medical fitness certificate is required on their published visa categories (rop.gov.om, read 14 September 2026). That is a document requirement rather than a price difference, but it has a practical cost: applicants on that list should budget the medical examination and the time to sit it, and applicants not on it should not assume the step disappears entirely from their case.

On currency, the honest answer is that we tried and could not verify a rate. The Central Bank of Oman exchange-rate page could not be retrieved on 14 September 2026 because of a certificate error, and we are not going to publish an Oman investor visa cost in USD, in Indian rupees or in Pakistani rupees against a rate taken from a conversion widget and presented as though a central bank stood behind it. Convert OMR 530 and OMR 755 yourself, on the day, at the rate your own bank will actually give you, and remember that the rate your bank gives you is the one you will pay.

Two warning signs are worth naming. The first is a single blended total with no separation between professional fee and government charge; it is not necessarily dishonest, but it makes comparison impossible and it hides which parts of the bill anyone could have reduced. The second is a quotation that prices dependants as though they were free. Family residency is a separate application at OMR 100 or OMR 260 per person on our own price list, and a competitor who has not mentioned it has not finished quoting.

Compare on scope before you compare on price. A cheaper figure that covers one applicant, excludes the card fee and leaves dependants unpriced is not cheaper than a higher figure that covers three people and names everything it does not include. Most of the price differences we are asked to explain turn out to be scope differences once both documents are on the table.