{"schemaVersion":1,"passportCode":"UY","passportUrl":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/uruguay","scope":"Selected country-topic summaries; not a complete account of citizenship law or personal tax liability. These facts do not change mobility scores.","review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_korea_finland","reviewedAt":"2026-09-22","recheckBy":"2026-12-21","candidateSha256":"81393c104eaafb634456e980cd650ba4790271543a0b2e03a3f4a3cd8385f2dc","notes":"Independently read all 21 registered official authorities and relevant operative clauses for six topics and 35 facts. Approved after the author corrected the Mexican SRE requirement locators and restored Uruguay's rebuttable, non-separated-spouse family presumption and permanent-establishment exclusion from the general IRNR statement. Verified current Costa Rican SINALEVI law version 83 of 83, Uruguay's operative 2026 foreign-income expansion and separate arrival-cohort election, and the scoped nationality/renunciation distinctions. Exact-byte approval; see the matching review-notes for source editions, access methods, limitations and monitoring. No publication or deployment."},"reviewScope":"A common review is provided only when all topics share one approval. Otherwise consult each topic's review; no collection means no review.","reviews":[{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_korea_finland","reviewedAt":"2026-09-22","recheckBy":"2026-12-21","candidateSha256":"81393c104eaafb634456e980cd650ba4790271543a0b2e03a3f4a3cd8385f2dc","notes":"Independently read all 21 registered official authorities and relevant operative clauses for six topics and 35 facts. Approved after the author corrected the Mexican SRE requirement locators and restored Uruguay's rebuttable, non-separated-spouse family presumption and permanent-establishment exclusion from the general IRNR statement. Verified current Costa Rican SINALEVI law version 83 of 83, Uruguay's operative 2026 foreign-income expansion and separate arrival-cohort election, and the scoped nationality/renunciation distinctions. Exact-byte approval; see the matching review-notes for source editions, access methods, limitations and monitoring. No publication or deployment."}],"coverage":{"citizenship":"reviewed_scope","taxes":"reviewed_scope"},"topics":[{"code":"UY","topic":"citizenship","title":"Legal citizenship and ordinary residence","summary":"Uruguay's ordinary foreign-adult route grants legal citizenship after habitual residence and evidence of conduct and economic ties. That status, the exercise of civic rights, nationality and passport treatment must not be collapsed into a single automatic outcome.","scope":"Ordinary adult carta de ciudadanía under Constitution Article 75(A)–(B), not natural citizenship by birth/descent or a special legislative grant.","jurisdiction":"Uruguay — Constitution and Corte Electoral","routeId":"ordinary-legal-citizenship","routeType":"naturalisation","facts":[{"id":"uy-cit-residence","label":"Three or five habitual years","text":"Article 75 requires three habitual years for a foreign applicant with a family constituted in Uruguay, or five without such a family. Both cohorts require good conduct and the specified capital/property or professional, scientific, artistic or industrial connection.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-constitution-75"],"locator":"Constitution Article 75(A)–(B)."},{"id":"uy-cit-presence","label":"Habitual residence must be evidenced","text":"The Electoral Court requests residence and movement certificates. An absence exceeding six consecutive months restarts the applicable three- or five-year period on re-entry. Its guidance also requires evidence of means of life over the applicable period and qualifying witnesses who have known the applicant for that period.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-citizenship"],"locator":"Requirements: Ingreso al país y residencia; Medio de vida (arraigo); Testigos."},{"id":"uy-cit-spanish","label":"Functional Spanish, not an assigned CEFR level","text":"Applicants whose language is not Spanish must understand and express themselves in Spanish; otherwise the application is not processed. The reviewed Court guidance does not establish a CEFR level or a separate named citizenship examination.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-citizenship"],"locator":"Otros datos de interés: final paragraph after the Article 75 eligibility list."},{"id":"uy-cit-civic-rights","label":"Grant and civic rights are different stages","text":"For the ordinary Article 75(A)–(B) cohorts, the Constitution delays exercise of rights inherent in legal citizenship until three years after the charter. The Court tells holders to present the charter after three years to obtain the civic credential.","state":"documented","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-constitution-75","ranks2140-uy-citizenship"],"locator":"Constitution Article 75, paragraph following residence-evidence provision; Court introduction before Requisitos."},{"id":"uy-cit-retention","label":"Later naturalisation affects legal citizenship","text":"Article 81 distinguishes nationality, which is not lost even through foreign naturalisation, from legal citizenship, which is lost through a subsequent naturalisation. The nationality non-loss clause must not be presented as unconditional dual-citizenship protection for this route.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-constitution-81"],"locator":"Constitution Article 81, first and second paragraphs."},{"id":"uy-cit-passport","label":"A separate passport procedure exists","text":"The charter proves legal citizenship. DNIC provides a separate passport application for legal citizens, requiring an identity document regularised to that status and the charter; a civic credential is required when the charter is more than three years old. Passport availability does not erase the constitutional status distinction.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-citizenship","ranks2140-uy-passport"],"locator":"Court introduction; DNIC Ciudadanos legales, requirements Carta de Ciudadanía and Credencial Cívica, and Otros datos de interés."},{"id":"uy-cit-passport-limits","label":"Passport-format change is not a new nationality law","text":"The government announced a return from 1 August 2025 to the passport version preceding the April 2025 changes, with future adjustments still under consultation. This does not establish a grant of nationality through the legal-citizenship route or uniform treatment by every destination.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-passport-reversal"],"locator":"29 July 2025 announcement: paragraphs on reversion from 1 August and continuing consultations."}],"limits":["The routeType is a discovery classification: the domestic legal outcome described here is ciudadanía legal, not an assertion that it is identical to nationality or citizenship by birth.","Habitual residence is not converted into a permanent-residence-permit requirement or an exact day-count constraint.","The reviewed authorities do not establish a numeric language level or a universal exemption scheme; none is invented.","No blanket dual-nationality, renunciation-effect or visa-access claim is made. Passport-format announcements and destination acceptance must be checked separately."],"review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_korea_finland","reviewedAt":"2026-09-22","recheckBy":"2026-12-21","candidateSha256":"81393c104eaafb634456e980cd650ba4790271543a0b2e03a3f4a3cd8385f2dc","notes":"Independently read all 21 registered official authorities and relevant operative clauses for six topics and 35 facts. Approved after the author corrected the Mexican SRE requirement locators and restored Uruguay's rebuttable, non-separated-spouse family presumption and permanent-establishment exclusion from the general IRNR statement. Verified current Costa Rican SINALEVI law version 83 of 83, Uruguay's operative 2026 foreign-income expansion and separate arrival-cohort election, and the scoped nationality/renunciation distinctions. Exact-byte approval; see the matching review-notes for source editions, access methods, limitations and monitoring. No publication or deployment."},"url":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/uruguay/citizenship","disclaimer":"General information, not legal advice or a finding of eligibility. Requirements depend on the route, applicant and filing date. Verify the official instructions before applying."},{"code":"UY","topic":"taxes","title":"Tax residence and the 2026 foreign-income rules","summary":"Uruguay uses independent presence and personal/economic nexus tests for tax residence. Its source-based system has important extensions, including expanded foreign capital income and gains from 2026 and cohort-specific new-resident elections.","scope":"Ordinary individual IRPF/IRNR residence and cross-border scope, including the enacted 2026 transition but excluding bespoke investment or rate calculations.","jurisdiction":"Uruguay — IRPF and IRNR","facts":[{"id":"uy-tax-days","label":"More than 183 days is one residence ground","text":"Presence exceeding 183 days in a calendar year establishes residence. Entry and exit days count, transit between third countries does not, and absences of at most 30 consecutive days count unless foreign tax residence is certified. A foreign certificate does not negate sufficient actual Uruguayan presence.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-tax-residence"],"locator":"Causales de residencia, section 1: Presencia física efectiva."},{"id":"uy-tax-other-nexus","label":"Other residence grounds operate independently","text":"Vital interests, the main activity base or economic interests can establish residence without the day test. The rebuttable family presumption concerns a habitually resident spouse who is not legally separated and dependent minor children, or that spouse if there are no children. The activity test compares gross income country by country, excluding exclusively passive capital income; specified investment presumptions have separate conditions.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-tax-residence"],"locator":"Introductory explanation and sections 2–4."},{"id":"uy-tax-source","label":"Residents and nonresidents have distinct taxes","text":"Ordinary residents generally fall under IRPF; nonresidents without a Uruguayan permanent establishment generally fall under IRNR, while establishment cases require the IRAE rules. Both IRPF and IRNR cover domestic-source income, with statutory extensions: for example, IRPF can treat employment performed abroad for specified Uruguayan taxpayers as domestic source, while IRNR includes specified overseas technical services connected with a payer's IRAE-taxable income.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-tax-residence","ranks2140-uy-irpf","ranks2140-uy-irnr"],"locator":"DGI residence introduction; Title 7 Article 6(1) and following source rules (II); Title 8 Articles 1, 6–7 and 9."},{"id":"uy-tax-foreign-2026","label":"Foreign capital coverage expanded in 2026","text":"DGI confirms that from 1 January 2026 IRPF covers foreign movable and immovable capital returns and gains. Statutory exclusions and attribution rules still apply; neither blanket territorial exemption nor taxation of every kind of worldwide income accurately describes this baseline.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-foreign-income-2026","ranks2140-uy-irpf"],"locator":"DGI 24 July 2026 notice, four categories; Title 7 Articles 6(2), 18 and 21.","effectiveFrom":"2026-01-01"},{"id":"uy-tax-arrival-cohorts","label":"New-resident elections are cohort-specific","text":"The legacy Article 24 election could be made only through 31 December 2025; existing elected periods require separate assessment. Article 24-bis offers qualifying 2026-onward arrivals an IRNR election for covered foreign capital income for arrival year plus ten years, with investment conditions or the statutory presence test each year, preceding two-year nonresidence and no earlier Article 24 use, subject to transition provisions.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-irpf"],"locator":"Title 7 Articles 24 and 24-bis, especially first four paragraphs and transition paragraph.","effectiveFrom":"2026-01-01"},{"id":"uy-tax-credit-treaties","label":"Relief is conditional","text":"Foreign tax on covered Article 6(2) income can be credited up to the corresponding IRPF liability, subject to regulations. DGI separately lists treaties, their tax-effective dates and applicable multilateral modifications; treaty coverage is not a blanket exemption.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-uy-irpf","ranks2140-uy-tax-treaties"],"locator":"Title 7 Article 25; DGI treaty-status table and column descriptions."}],"limits":["Citizenship, habitual residence for the citizenship charter and tax residence are separate concepts.","The 2026 foreign-income expansion is treated as enacted, not proposed; older summaries limited to foreign interest/dividends are insufficient.","The election summary is not an eligibility calculation: investment definitions, continuing conditions, attribution, exemptions and post-election options require separate verification.","No general remittance-only basis, universal tax holiday or flat personal-tax rate is asserted."],"review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_korea_finland","reviewedAt":"2026-09-22","recheckBy":"2026-12-21","candidateSha256":"81393c104eaafb634456e980cd650ba4790271543a0b2e03a3f4a3cd8385f2dc","notes":"Independently read all 21 registered official authorities and relevant operative clauses for six topics and 35 facts. Approved after the author corrected the Mexican SRE requirement locators and restored Uruguay's rebuttable, non-separated-spouse family presumption and permanent-establishment exclusion from the general IRNR statement. Verified current Costa Rican SINALEVI law version 83 of 83, Uruguay's operative 2026 foreign-income expansion and separate arrival-cohort election, and the scoped nationality/renunciation distinctions. Exact-byte approval; see the matching review-notes for source editions, access methods, limitations and monitoring. No publication or deployment."},"url":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/uruguay/taxes","disclaimer":"General information, not personal tax advice. Nationality, tax residence and source of income are different questions. Consult the tax authority or a qualified adviser for your circumstances."}],"sources":[{"id":"ranks2140-uy-citizenship","publisher":"Corte Electoral","title":"Legal citizenship certificate — updated 27 May 2026","url":"https://www.gub.uy/tramites/carta-ciudadania","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-constitution-75","publisher":"IMPO","title":"Constitution, Article 75 — updated text","url":"https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/constitucion/1967-1967/75","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-constitution-81","publisher":"IMPO","title":"Constitution, Article 81 — nationality and legal citizenship","url":"https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/constitucion/1967-1967/81","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-passport","publisher":"Ministerio del Interior — Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil","title":"First passport for legal citizens — updated 1 July 2026","url":"https://www.gub.uy/tramites/solicitud-pasaporte-primera-vez-ciudadanos-legales","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-passport-reversal","publisher":"Presidencia Uruguay","title":"Return to previous passport format from 1 August 2025","url":"https://www.gub.uy/presidencia/comunicacion/noticias/nuevo-pasaporte-validez-agosto","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-tax-residence","publisher":"Dirección General Impositiva","title":"Grounds for tax residence — 20 October 2025","url":"https://www.gub.uy/direccion-general-impositiva/comunicacion/publicaciones/causales-residencia-fiscal","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-irpf","publisher":"IMPO / Dirección General Impositiva","title":"Tax consolidation 2023, Title 7 — including Law 20.446 amendments","url":"https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/todgi-2023/7-2024/7","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-irnr","publisher":"IMPO / Dirección General Impositiva","title":"Tax consolidation 2023, Title 8 — nonresident income tax","url":"https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/todgi-2023/8-2024/8","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-foreign-income-2026","publisher":"Dirección General Impositiva","title":"IRPF: new foreign-income categories — 24 July 2026","url":"https://www.gub.uy/direccion-general-impositiva/comunicacion/noticias/irpf-nuevas-categorias-rentas-obtenidas-exterior-personas-fisicas-residentes","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"},{"id":"ranks2140-uy-tax-treaties","publisher":"Dirección General Impositiva","title":"Status and effective dates of double-taxation agreements","url":"https://www.gub.uy/direccion-general-impositiva/comunicacion/publicaciones/convenios-para-evitar-doble-imposicion","language":"es","retrievedAt":"2026-09-22"}],"indicators":{"scope":"These describe the publisher's statistical geography, not benefits acquired by holding its passport. 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