{"id":358,"date":"2025-07-21T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:18:54","slug":"types-of-residence-permits-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/358\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Residence permits in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs grants different types of residency in Bahrain, and obtaining each type requires meeting a set of conditions, submitting several documents, and paying the fees required to issue the residency.<\/p>\n<h2>Types of Residence permits in Bahrain<\/h2>\n<p>The following are the types of residency in Bahrain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Golden residency in Bahrain:<\/strong> It includes the following types:\n<ul>\n<li>Golden residency for a retired non-resident foreigner.<\/li>\n<li>Golden residency for a foreigner who owns real estate in the Kingdom of Bahrain.<\/li>\n<li>Golden residency for a foreigner with talents.<\/li>\n<li>Golden residency for a foreigner residing in the Kingdom of Bahrain (employee\/retired).<\/li>\n<li>Golden residency for dependents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Residency for the foreign wife of a Bahraini.<\/li>\n<li>Residency for the children of a Bahraini woman married to a foreigner.<\/li>\n<li>Residency for the first-degree relatives of a resident foreigner (father, mother, husband, children over 24 years old).<\/li>\n<li>Residency for educational institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Residency for the first-degree relatives of Bahraini (father, mother, husband, children).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Residency by personal sponsorship:<\/strong> It includes the following types:\n<ul>\n<li>Residence by personal sponsorship with a return visa &#8211; for a foreign investor.<\/li>\n<li>Residence by personal sponsorship with a return visa &#8211; for a retired foreigner.<\/li>\n<li>Residence by personal sponsorship with a return visa &#8211; for a foreigner who owns a residence in the Kingdom of Bahrain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Residency for joining foreign companies.<\/li>\n<li>Residency for joining the foreign wife of a Gulf citizen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>See More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/331\/\">Get a Golden Residency Visa<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/302\/\">Renewal Residence Permit Cost<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/288\/\">Residence Permit Renewal<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/279\/\">Residence Permit Validity<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/266\/\">Residence Permit Requirements<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/252\/\">Residence Permit Cost<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>The Kingdom of Bahrain seeks to attract foreigners with distinguished skills, in addition to owners of capital and investors, so it grants many types of residency on its territory, after ensuring that applicants meet the conditions and requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs grants different types of residency in Bahrain, and obtaining each type requires meeting a set of conditions, submitting several documents, and paying the fees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[53,55],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-services","tag-residence","tag--en"],"acf":[],"views":349,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menbrbahrain.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}