Investment Citizenship: What Is It and How to Get It?

Did you know that investment citizenship helps businessmen, wealthy people and their families gain benefits that give them a global opportunities?

Your knowledge of investment citizenship may be intertwined with other topics or may be missing or outdated information. In this article, I will show you all the points you need to know correctly and up to date.

First, a quick look at investment citizenship

Understanding the question is half the answer. As the name suggests, investment citizenship is a type of citizenship program you can get after investing in some countries with a strong passport.

The countries that offer investment citizenship programs started in the 1980s, from the Caribbean country of Saint Kitts and Nevis, followed by Dominica and the rest of the countries we are in today.

Since then, new countries have been added, others have been canceled, and many programs have been modified continuously. Today, the countries that offer investment citizenship programs are limited to two regions.

The Caribbean region and the European Union region, where the latter is considered a residence and then turns into citizenship, while the Caribbean region programs are programs for obtaining citizenship directly.

Investment methods to obtain a second citizenship are distributed between real estate investment, investment in stocks, and making non-refundable contributions to these countries for raising their economies.

Let us explain the general requirements for investment citizenship programs, and the benefits of obtaining them, and we will introduce you to some countries that offer this type of program.

General requirements for investment citizenship programs

Each country that offers investment citizenship has its own laws, but in general, most of them agree on the same requirements, but with minor changes.

For example, all countries agree that the main applicant must be at least 18 years old, and that he and his family are in good health, have no criminal record, and that the funds used in the investment are not of suspicious origin.

As for adding family members, you will be able to add your spouse and children up to the age of 30 and your parents, and citizenship will be passed on to future generations, and some of them accept adding grandparents and siblings as well.

The big difference worth mentioning is that Caribbean programs do not require any residency before and after obtaining citizenship, unlike European countries that require residency requirements in order to obtain and maintain citizenship, and residency requirements vary from one European country to another.

There are dozens of major advantages to obtaining investment citizenship, but we will only mention the most important ones and how their holder benefits from them:

✓ The most important advantage that can be mentioned is the strength of the passports of these countries, which allow you to enter about 150 countries without a visa, including Britain, Canada, China, the Emirates and all Schengen countries, with easy access to America and Australia.

✓ These countries also have one of the most suitable tax systems for business owners and the wealthy, as there are no taxes imposed on non-residents, foreign trade, wealth, inheritance, capital gains, etc.

✓ Business owners can open international bank accounts and companies based in these countries or third countries that they enter with the help of a second passport from these countries.

✓ As we mentioned, Caribbean countries do not require you to reside, know the language, have an academic degree or work experience, and these countries accept dual citizenship and your data is not shared with your country of origin.

✓ You can add your family and enjoy the magic of the Caribbean nature and benefit from the advanced health systems and international universities spread in these countries, and do not forget that the mentioned programs are processed quickly and within 9 months at most you get your citizenship.

Countries that offer investment citizenship

1. Investment citizenship from Grenada

Grenada offers Investment citizenship program in the Caribbean, and it is a beautiful island like the rest of the Caribbean countries, located between the Americas, with a desirable climate and hospitable people.

To obtain Grenada citizenship, you must either invest in real estate in the amount of $ 270,000, with the possibility of selling the property after 5 years, or make a financial contribution to the state of Grenada in the amount of $ 235,000.

Grenada citizenship has all the specifications of ideal citizenship as we mentioned in the section on the advantages of investment citizenship. As for the rest of the Caribbean programs, they are St. Kitts citizenship, Dominica citizenship, Antigua citizenship, and St. Lucia citizenship.

2. Investment Citizenship from Portugal

Portugal offers the famous Golden Visa program that leads to obtaining citizenship after 5 years of obtaining the Golden Visa program and after maintaining residency for one week per year and after knowing the Portuguese language.

After investing in several fields, the most important of which is investing in non-real estate funds in the amount of 500 thousand euros or opening a new company in the amount of 500 thousand euros, you will be able to obtain residency in Europe through the Portugal portal and then citizenship after 5 years of residency.

The Portuguese residency program gives you the right to travel, reside and work in all Schengen countries and benefit from all their educational and health benefits. As for the rest of the countries that offer Golden Visa programs, they are Spanish residency, Greek residency and Maltese residency.

3. Investment Citizenship from Saint Kitts

Saint Kitts citizenship tops the list of programs that offer investment citizenship, as it was launched from it and wants to maintain its position and fame by injecting new facilities for investors who are thinking of obtaining a Saint Kitts passport.

Among the new facilities are a reduction in the investment costs required for both methods of obtaining St. Kitts citizenship, namely real estate investment or making a contribution to the State of St. Kitts, in addition to expanding the list of family ages that can be added with the main applicant.

To obtain St. Kitts citizenship, you must invest $325,000 in real estate or make a $250,000 contribution to the Government of St. Kitts for a family of 4 and wait only 6 months, this is what the new President of St. Kitts Citizenship has promised.

Do you now know what investment citizenship means? If you still have questions about it or if you have decided to obtain one of the citizenship by investment programs, in both cases we invite you to contact Global Citizen Consultants, the certified expert in citizenship programs around the world.