11 Countries Where You Can Buy a Second Passport — and How Much It Costs
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Though it is illegal to flat-out purchase a passport to another country of which you are not a citizen, it is legal, in some countries, for an American to purchase citizenship, which would then grant them a second passport.
International Living recently posted a blog (in light of surging interest among Americans to secure residency abroad) that identified the 11 countries that have Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs. These are countries where Americans can essentially buy (or invest) their way into passport-holding citizenship.
How much do these CBIs in each of these countries cost and what are the conditions to qualify?
Egypt
- Cost: $100,000 donation or $500,000 bank deposit (no interest)
- Conditions: 3-year hold on bank deposit
Vanuatu
- Cost: $130,000 donation
- Conditions: None
Dominica
- Cost: $200,000 donation or $200,000 approved real estate
- Conditions: 5-year hold of real estate; no name changes within 5 years.
Antigua & Barbuda
- Cost: $230,000 donation or $300,000 approved real estate
- Conditions: 5-year hold of real estate; presence required for the first five days of the first 5 years.
Grenada
- Cost: $235,000 donation or $270,000 (share) or $350,000 (full title) approved real estate
- Conditions: 5-year hold of real estate
Saint Lucia
- Cost: $240,000 donation or $300,000 approved real estate
- Conditions: 5-year hold of real estate
Cambodia
- Cost: $245,000 donation or $305,000 investment in approved projects
- Conditions: None
St. Kitts & Nevis
- Cost: $250,000 donation or $325,000 approved real estate
- Conditions: 7-year hold of real estate
Türkiye
- Cost: $400,000 approved real estate or $500,000 bank deposit or investment
- Conditions: 3-year hold of real estate
North Macedonia
- Cost: €200,000 approved investment fund or €400,000 direct investment
- Conditions: 3-year hold on investment
Jordan
- Cost: $1.4 million investment
- Conditions: None
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