Can't renew Premium Visa 2025

@brandonber101

Hello and welcome !

Thank you for brining out this point.

Many of our members are under premium visa. After the budget, we have little update on the premium visa and the situation seems unclear.

I hope we will get some informative feedback on  your thread for the benefit of everyone.

Regards

Bhavna

3 of my clients have been called to Sterling House and told Premium Visas WILL NOT be renewed on expiry!

It would be useful to know if they're not renewing 4th and subsequent premium visas and that they will renew up to the 3rd one? 

It doesn't seem like they've any immediate plans to eliminate it, or it would have probably been done this year in the Finance Bill.

Maybe they want to force long-term premium visa holders into the tax system here by refusing renewals after a certain period and forcing them onto other tax-paying visas? it would be a way of increasing tax revenue without additional legislation.

It will be interesting to see further replies on this thread.

Hi KC,

Thank you for your reply.

That's just the thing bothering me the most.

I have a MRA TAN and have been paying tax since 2022. I'm waiting for MRA to open the 2025 platform in September/October to complete my personal tax filing for the financial year.

I've even shown the official at Sterling House my filing documents and the payment MRA deducted from my MCB bank account. But still persisted that they won't renew it.

I think I'm one of the few that pay taxes on a premium visa, unless there are more. I really hope more people will reply in this thread and see where we stand.

Perhaps we can start a petition for all the people already paying tax under the premium visa and have someone represent us at the government for a alternative. (one can only hope!)

As far as I know, 5 of my friends have had their senior visa renewals rejected without any reason given.

This year's budget said that the premium visa will be phased out. It was always going to be a temporary thing.

You'll either have to switch to a different permit or leave the country.

Your options depend on how much money you have and your age.

Doesn't matter if you paid tax or not. It's the new rules. I paid tax while I was on the premium visa as well but I saw this change coming and switched to a self employed permit last year.

It's too late for a petition now. The new rules are already coming into effect.

Mauritian residency is now only accessible to a small amount of people.

@brandonber101

There seem to be some changes since the new budget - a bit of insights here if that helps : [link moderated]

Could you unmoderate link? that info could be usefull...

@Caroline Letrange

I also heard they are reconsidering their "new" stance on Premium Visas.

@Wu Xuping

Are you talking about the 10 year retirement visa?

@GuestPoster7399

No, I'm referring to retirement-type Premium visa.