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Panama’s pensionado is one of the few residence routes anywhere that hands a newcomer permanent residence immediately, on a lifetime pension of $1,000 a month and with no minimum age, in a dollarised country with good private hospitals and flights everywhere. Read the conditions rather than the headline: it has to be a lifetime pension, not savings or investment income, and the other main route has been tightened twice since 2021.
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Document the pension, not the savings
It must be a guaranteed lifetime pension; investment income and account withdrawals do not qualify.
File through Panamanian counsel
Immigration applications are made by a lawyer here, and the fee is part of the budget.
Buy private cover
The public system is for people employed here; private care is the practical route.