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Kazakhstan

Neo Nomad Visa (B12-1)

PR: IndirectUTC+5

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
$3,000 a month
Required savings
None
Annual total
$36,000
Initial duration
Up to 1 year, extendable 1
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
No, in person or by post

USD 3,000/month via 6 months of statements.

How this figure is set: A fixed amount set in law or on the official page. The wording on the source is: 3000. Formula: bank statements for past 6 months showing stable monthly income >= US$3,000; plus tax return.

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Government of Kazakhstan visa rules amendment introducing category B12-1 (Nov 2024) - instruction PDF on gov.kz.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Indirect pathway. B12-1 is a visa (not a residence permit), max 2 yrs; PDF never mentions PR.

The Neo Nomad Visa instruction PDF published on gov.kz (effective from the 18 Nov 2024 introduction) classifies B12-1 explicitly as a 'visa' — valid up to 1 year, extendable once by 1 more — issued by foreign missions, and never mentions permanent residence; it sits structurally outside Kazakhstan's residence-permit (вид на жительство) system. General permanent residence is governed by the Law 'On Migration of the Population' and is reported at roughly 5 years on a residence permit — a separate route (e.g. the IT/investor residence permit) the existing claim already flags as necessary. The visa-vs-PR structural gap is high confidence (read off the official PDF); the 5-year PR figure is medium confidence since it came from search synthesis rather than the fetched statute text.

Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Astana sits at 51.17° N, 71.43° E.

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Time zone

  • UTC+5 Almaty (Asia/Almaty)

The country

Region
Asia · Central Asia
Capital
Astana
Currency
KZT

Next door

1 of the 5 countries Kazakhstan shares a land border with is covered here.

What it costs to live there

$609 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Kazakhstan spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Astana
$728 / month incl. rent
of which rent $328
Almaty
$843 / month incl. rent
of which rent $412

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2024: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • Russian official
  • Kazakh official
  • English common in cities
  • German limited
  • Uyghur limited

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

  1. Check you clear the requirements above — $3,000 a month is the figure this row records.
  2. Gather what the official page asks for. Expect proof of income, a passport, health insurance and a criminal-record check as the common core.
  3. Apply in person or by post — this programme has no online route.
  4. Sort out where you will stay for the first stretch. Airlines check this at the desk and will not board you without it, whatever your visa says —what counts as proof of accommodation.
  5. Verify every figure on the official page before you spend money. Thresholds are set in local currency and move every year.

Visa & Migration Portal ↗

Launched Nov 2024. Apply at embassy; 5 working days.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .