Antigua and Barbuda’s Cabinet leans toward confirming a 2028 end date for its citizenship program to keep visa-free travel to Europe.
Four programs admit a parent at any age and three admit none at all. Grenada’s widely quoted 55 decides which fee band a parent falls into, and decides nothing about eligibility.
Every Caribbean citizenship by investment program writes two restrictions into its property rules. One sets when you may sell. The other decides whether the property can ever qualify anybody else, and that is the one that sets your price.
All five Eastern Caribbean citizenship by investment programs face a 30-day presence rule that has not started. Most in-person steps in force today, including biometrics, interviews and oaths, can be completed abroad. Vanuatu and Antigua and Barbuda are the exceptions.
IMI found no published bank rule refusing people who acquired citizenship through investment. The questions banks do ask come from the OECD’s list of potentially high-risk programs and a 2023 report on earlier passports.
Every citizenship by investment program can take back what it granted. The grounds are wide and rest on a minister being satisfied. The procedure decides whether you can fight a revocation, and the time you get to answer varies from seven days to 60.
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and El Salvador each publish a restricted list, and no two of them name the same countries.
From June 15, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Nicaragua lose visa-free access to Ireland. The move follows the UK and runs alongside a hardening EU stance on golden passports.
A bloc-by-bloc map of the fastest realistic naturalization paths, ranked from quickest to slowest. Three speed tiers, one settlement footprint per passport, and a 2026 snapshot of what’s still in flux.
Roughly 60 countries still conscript citizens, and the list is growing. A second passport alone is rarely a clean exemption. Here is how investors actually structure around conscription liability in 2026.
Most RCBI countries spend program revenues as fast as they collect them. A sovereign wealth fund changes the equation entirely.
This guide covers every active CBI program and the handful of countries where naturalization takes two to three years.
