Have you ever considered obtaining a second citizenship? Citizenship by Investment programs makes it more accessible and affordable. CBI enables you to acquire lifetime citizenship in as little as one and a half months, bypassing lengthy traditional immigration processes. It opens up a world of global opportunities without prior residency requirements. Consider being a global citizen today!
If you wish to know which countries offer CBI programs to foreign investors, Apollo IMA will be happy to provide information and advice based on your requirements and needs. The number of countries that offer CBI programs and investment options in existing programs is constantly increasing.
Country
Investment
Options
Investment cost
(Starting from)
Processing time
To citizenship
Eu visa-free
travel
Visa-free
access
4 Months
Schengen
States
146
Malta requires 1-year residence prior to granting citizenship, and Cyprus – 6 months.
For more detailed information on each citizenship by investment program, please refer to corresponding pages.
Investing in a second citizenship is a decision influenced by various personal motivations. A common goal is to gain greater worldwide mobility, alongside access to high living standards and exceptional education and healthcare. For ultra-high and high-net-worth individuals, the appeal often lies in asset protection, ensuring a better life for their families, and leveraging the 100% confidentiality and privacy that most states’ investment programs offer. A second passport represents a travel document and a strategic step towards a more secure and affluent future.
All CBI countries are quite famous for their high living standards, outstanding quality of education and healthcare. Second passport guarantees personal security, economic and political stability and low crime rate.
CBI programs offer citizenship to eligible family members for life. And second citizenship is passed down to future generations. Moreover, citizens have access to world-class healthcare and educational institutions at lower costs.
The whole CBI application process is strictly confidential and secure, and second passport is not reported to other countries. However, it is important to check whether your country permits dual citizenship because not all of them do.
Countries that offer citizenship by investment programs are pro-business fully-developed or fast-growing economies providing access to endless business opportunities and qualified English-speaking workforce. Second passport can be used to register local companies and assets.
The main reason for a country to grant citizenship by investment is to boost the economy with foreign investments. They aim to attract money, talent and expertise. Dominica, for example, uses funds received through the Economic Diversification Fund to finance public and private projects, including construction of schools and sports arenas, hospital refurbishments, promotion of the offshore sector as well as tourism, IT and agriculture initiatives.
In exchange for your investment in real estate, state fund, an approved project or government bonds you have a chance to get a second passport and become global citizen.
A passport has always been used as a traveling document and historically was called safe conduct and certificate of citizenship. At the beginning of the 20th century it started to be used as an identity document. Recently, it has become a very sought-after commodity creating a whole industry of forging and stealing passports. Apart from existing black market, we know that an increasing number of countries offer to sell their passports in a lawful way through their citizenship by investment programs.
The origin of citizenship by investment programs lies in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, though it was more like a residence program because it applied to foreigners only, without leading to citizenship. At the end of the 19th century, cantonal authorities created a tax system to start taxing wealthy foreign citizens that were resident in Switzerland without contributing to the maintenance of the system. The tax system was called lump-sum taxation and is still used in Switzerland, though not in all cantons. A foreign national that decides to take up residence in Switzerland can benefit from lump-sum taxation and decrease their tax burden. To benefit from this form of taxation, a high net worth individual cannot work in Switzerland and cannot apply for Swiss passport.
German and Singapore citizens have visa-free access to 165 countries making these passports the most powerful in the world. The worst passports for global mobility are passports of Syria, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The color of your passport can tell a citizen of which country you are, and likewise you can always spot citizens of other countries by just looking at their passports. For example, a passport of Switzerland is bright red to reflect their national identity. Turkey has recently changed the color of a Turkish passport to burgundy, same as an EU passport, as they hope to join the EU.
The first citizenship by investment program was established in 1984 in St Kitts & Nevis, as has been mentioned already. Seeing how beneficial and advantageous it can be to the economy of the country, other Caribbean and European states have followed introducing their own CBI programs.
1984 – St Kitts & Nevis citizenship by investment program
1993 – Dominica citizenship by investment program
2012 – Antigua and Barbuda citizenship by investment program
2013 – Grenada citizenship by investment program
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