Jordan citizenship by investment vs Türkiye’s program is a choice between running a business with a Jordanian payroll and holding an asset: under the bases Jordan’s Cabinet adopted on 15 July 2026, a new investor’s lowest capital route is JOD 500,000 paid into a new productive project outside the Amman governorate, with at least ten jobs for Jordanians registered with the Social Security Corporation, while Türkiye grants citizenship for USD 400,000 of real estate and asks for no hiring at all. Inside the Amman governorate the same project route needs JOD 700,000 and twenty Jordanian jobs. The other routes of the 2026 bases are JOD 1.5 million of shares in Jordanian companies newly bought through one licensed brokerage, JOD 1 million of new shares in an existing project, JOD 3 million in pharmaceutical warehousing or food logistics, JOD 1.5 million in the Amrah city project, and a payroll of 150 Jordanians in Amman or 100 in another governorate.
The source is the Cabinet’s decision of 15 July 2026 as the Jordan News Agency (Petra), the State’s own news agency, published it that morning in Arabic and in English, and the bases as the Ministry of Investment, which the decision makes the single window for investor files, sets them out in English on its investment portal invest.jo, read on 16 October 2026. The job counts and the two procedures added below come from the Ministry’s text, and the Ministry’s own site, moin.gov.jo, still carries no text of the bases.
Jordan’s 2026 bases beside Türkiye’s regulation
The Jordan column is the Cabinet’s 2026 bases as Petra published them and the Ministry of Investment sets them out; the Türkiye column rests on Law No. 5901, Article 12(b), and on the Implementing Regulation’s Article 20.
| Point of comparison | Jordan | Türkiye |
|---|---|---|
| What the investor receives | On the project, expansion and Amrah routes, a temporary Jordanian passport for three years once the conditions are met, then a recommendation for nationality after three years of compliance | Turkish nationality by decision of the President, after the route’s certificate is issued |
| Currency of the thresholds | Jordanian dinars | US dollars, measured at the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye’s rate on the date the investment is determined |
| A new business | Paid-up capital of JOD 700,000 in Amman with 20 Jordanian jobs, or JOD 500,000 outside it with 10, and four months from start-up to complete the headcount | USD 500,000 of fixed capital, with no hiring condition |
| Securities | JOD 1.5 million of new shares through a licensed broker within four months of the Ministry’s approval, no more than 10 per cent in one company, and nothing withdrawn, profits included, for five years | USD 500,000 in real estate or venture capital investment fund units, held three years |
| Jobs alone | 150 Jordanians in Amman or 100 elsewhere, registered with Social Security for a year before, kept for two years after nationality | 50 jobs certified by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security; the regulation writes no nationality condition on the 50 |
| Deposit or state bonds | No such route in the 2026 bases | USD 500,000 in a Turkish lira deposit or in lira government debt instruments, held three years |
| Property | A five-year residence permit, not nationality: JOD 200,000 from a developer or housing company, JOD 300,000 from any other seller, JOD 150,000 outside Amman, held five years unsold and unmortgaged | Nationality for USD 400,000 of real estate, with a three-year no-sale annotation on the deed |
| Family | The investor’s wife, the daughters living in the investor’s care, unmarried sons not over 24 and dependent parents; above JOD 2 million, sons up to 30 with their wives and children | Spouse and minor or dependent children join the investor’s file without any further investment |
| Holding periods | Shares five years; new shares in an existing project three years; a breach of any condition withdraws the nationality or cancels the residence | Three years on property, deposit, government debt, fund and pension routes; Article 20(8) lets the investor move between investment types to complete them |
| US treaty status | E-1 and E-2 since 17 December 2001 | E-2 from 18 May 1990 and E-1 from 15 February 1933 |
| E-2 after citizenship by investment | Domicile in Jordan for three continuous years before applying | Domicile in Türkiye for three continuous years before applying |
The two programs reward different investors. An operator who means to build a business and employ Jordanians meets Jordan’s bases as they are written; an investor who wants citizenship from a holding rather than an enterprise finds that Jordan has closed its deposit and bond routes, while Türkiye keeps a property route and a deposit route. The Turkish side, route by route and document by document, is set out under Turkish citizenship by investment.
Can a Jordanian passport be bought?
Not as a document. The 2026 bases grant nationality to an investor who meets one of their routes, and on the project, expansion and Amrah routes the first thing issued is a temporary Jordanian passport valid for three years, with nationality recommended only after the conditions have held for those three years. A breach of any condition withdraws the nationality or cancels the residence. An offer of a Jordanian passport outside those routes is not one the Cabinet’s text provides for.
How the Jordanian project routes run in time
An investor who starts operating a new project has four months to complete the required Jordanian headcount, and holds a residence permit until the project runs and the headcount is complete. Once the conditions are met, the temporary passport issues for three years; after three years of verified compliance, nationality is recommended. An investor buying new shares in an existing project also files a feasibility study for the expansion, the company’s audited balance sheet for the previous year and an audited statement of its financial position, puts at least JOD 500,000 into new fixed and non-current assets, and has the new shares frozen for three years. An investor already established in Jordan qualifies where the investor’s average share of the project’s fixed and non-current assets over the last three certified annual balance sheets reaches JOD 700,000 in Amman or JOD 350,000 elsewhere, and at least 90 per cent of the required Jordanian jobs were filled in every month of those three years, with an average of at least 20 Jordanian employees in Amman or 10 elsewhere.
The Ministry’s text adds three points the agency’s report did not carry. The buyer of new shares in an existing project must be new to the commercial register and must create at least 20 per cent new employment opportunities for Jordanians. An investor whose project has run for only one or two years may choose a temporary passport for the rest of the three years instead of waiting for them to pass. And the medical warehousing and food logistics routes, at JOD 3 million per partner, require the project to have run for thirty-six consecutive months while keeping at least 20 Jordanian jobs in Amman or 10 outside it, just as the Amrah route requires at least 20 Jordanian jobs.
Which Jordanian figures in circulation are out of date?
The bases that the Ministry of Investment still serves as a PDF, issued under Cabinet Decision No. 3657 and the Prime Minister’s letter of 13 September 2021, set the routes in US dollars: USD 1,000,000 deposited at the Central Bank of Jordan for three years without interest and USD 1,000,000 of six-year treasury bonds, USD 1,500,000 of shares or stakes kept for three years, and a new project of USD 1,000,000 in Amman with 20 jobs or USD 750,000 elsewhere with 10. None of those figures is in the 2026 bases: the deposit and bond route is gone, the currency is the dinar, and the share route now asks JOD 1.5 million held for five years.
How Serka Law Firm works a Jordanian or a Turkish file
Serka Law Firm is retained by the investor, and only by the investor. On a Jordanian file the work is matching the route to what the investor will really run in the country, then building the evidence the bases ask for: audited and certified balance sheets, Social Security registrations month by month, the feasibility study for an expansion, and the Department of Lands and Survey valuation where property buys the residence permit. Where the same capital could bring Turkish citizenship without a payroll, the firm sets the Turkish file beside the Jordanian one.
Where the figures come from
| What it supports | Source | Text dated | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 2026 routes and figures, the passport stages, the family, the residence permit and the withdrawal rule | Cabinet decision of 15 July 2026, as the Jordan News Agency (Petra) published it in Arabic and in English | 15 July 2026 | 1 October 2026 |
| The job counts of each route, the rules for new shares in an existing project, the temporary passport for projects of one or two years and the thirty-six months on the warehousing routes | Ministry of Investment, “Jordanian Citizenship Through Investment”, invest.jo | As served | 16 October 2026 |
| The 2021 figures | Ministry of Investment, the bases issued under Cabinet Decision No. 3657 | 13 September 2021 | 1 October 2026 |
| Türkiye’s routes, family and holding periods | Law No. 5901, Article 12(b); Implementing Regulation, Article 20 | Consolidated texts | 26 August 2026 |
| Jordan and Türkiye on the treaty table, and the three-year domicile condition | 9 FAM 402.9-10; 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E) as amended by Public Law 117-263, section 5902(b) | As served | 30 September 2026 |
Jordan or Türkiye comes down to the sector, the governorate and the payroll an investor can carry, set against the asset the investor would rather hold.
Jordan sits beside every other open program in the citizenship by investment country comparison.