Unless you have a work permit you cannot work whether it is your business or not you can only supervise, you will each have to pay monthly fee to stay.

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You would have to apply for a work permit in order to work on your business, it is in some cases costly , this is something you should take directly to immigration for a diffinitive answer.

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Again, not disagreeing, necessarily, just my own experience. I had a work visa for the first year when i worked for a local company. When I started my own little pizzaria in Cayo I did not ever apply for a work visa and no one ever asked me for one during the five years I was in business. I applied and paid for all of the local business licenses and permits, (business, liquor, and health.) Perhaps it was because I employed locals or that I was envolved with a local but they never came and they never asked. I did, however, have to renew my 'visa' at the rate of US50 per month and that would apply to each of you. I understand that the monthly fee has gone up. but I applied for and received residency (and citizenship when I married my local girl). I also made friends with one or more of the locals with some influence and a requested letter from one of these got me several months stamps on one trip to immigration. Renting a home helps. When I lived in San Pedro each time I went to immigration i informed them that I was not ready to leave and that I was paying a local monthly rent, they took my money and gave me a stamp. Apparently immigration doesn't like to take money away from the local economy. And that my friend is the rub. Immigration policy is to protect the local job market. If instead of taking a job from a local, you provide one, or otherwise contribute to someone else's livlihood locally. immigration is in no hurry to send you on your way. Plant some roots. Put your kids in a local school or day care. Hire a local or two. Also, I managed the first six months of stamps by informing immigration i was looking to purchase real estate. Boom. Stamp, with no further questions. Belize is hurting for money. They are not going to ask anyone to leave who is spending it or sharing it with locals. In addition to the, so called. retirement plan or visa there is also a local investment visa. though I am not positive it goes by that name. Get there.

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Well things at immigration seem to have changed a lot in the last 5 years.
There is no longer an Investment visa anymore. Unless someone can tell me otherwise, but Belmopan immigration says no longer exists.
They have also tightened up with those 'friends' that can get your stamps done for months ahead.There is still a big ongoing corruption investigation into all these things, causing even more delays in the residency program.
They are remembering several laws on the books that they were not enforcing and bringing them back on board.
The country is broke so really no incentive to speed up the process for residency when approximately one year of monthly fees is all they get for the change over, so stringing it out keeps those dollars coming in. They might not throw people out of the country that often, for breaking the rules but they can and do level hefty fines for such. If you can't pay the fine the alternative is Hattieville. But you still have to pay.

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They feed you a chicken foot for breakfast at Hattieville on a concrete floor with fire ants. I would NOT want to end up there....

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