Citizenship by investment schemes offers a perfect opportunity to become a world citizen, where the world opens up, giving full freedom of movement for you and all family members. These paid citizenship schemes offer instant passports within 1-2 months, in exchange for investments. You can travel visa free to over 100+ countries including Europe, UK/Ireland, Russia, China etc, instead of applying for visas everytime.
Second passports can be acquired within 2 months offers one time opportunity for alternative citizenship opportunity through investments.
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There are two routes to get fastest citizenship with passports. You have to donate $100,000 to Government fund or buy a real estate from $200,000 in exchange for passports. All applicants go through background screening process by governments.
Here are prices for investment citizenship programs.
We have coined a term Yellow Citizenship as a new brand for citizenship by investment programs
- Yellow Citizenship – Citizenship by investment
- Yellow Passport – Passport by investment
| CBI | Price | Passport time | Visa free | Residence conditions | Passport validity |
| Montenegro | €350,000 (real estate + donation opening in 2020) | 3 months | 123 | none | 10 |
| Malta | €900K (Donation + Bonds) | 14 months | 182 | 12 months | 10 |
| Cyprus | €2.15 million (real estate) | 7 months | 173 | 6 months | 10 |
| Greece | €2 million (opening in 2020) | 6 months | 183 | 6 months | 10 |
| St Kitts | $150,000 (donation) $200,000 (real estate) | 3 months | 151 | none | 10 |
| Antigua | $100,000 (donation) $200,000 (real estate) | 3 months | 150 | 5 days | 5 |
| Grenada | $150,000 (donation) $220,000 (real estate) | 3 months | 142 | none | 5 |
| Dominica | $100,000 (donation) $200,000 (real estate) | 3 months | 137 | none | 10 |
| St Lucia | $100,000 (donation) $300,000 (real estate) $500,000 (Govt bonds) | 2 months | 145 | none | 5 |
| Vanuatu | $150,000 (donation) | 1 month | 129 | none | 10 |
| Turkey | $250,000 (real estate) | 3-4 months | 111 | none | 10 |
| Bulgaria | $1,000,000 (bonds) | 20 months | 169 | 2 years | 10 |
Golden Visas vs CBI schemes
Golden visas offer only residency, not immediate citizenship or passport. Therefore it will not make you a world citizen. There is a significant difference between golden visas and citizenship by investment schemes.
| Difference | Golden visa | Golden passport |
| Type | Residence program | Citizenship program |
| Investment | Real estate | Donation/Real estate |
| Citizenship | After 5 years usually | Immediate (2-3 months) |
| Physical residence | One or two weeks | Usually none and no requirement to live or visit the country |
| Taxation | Residence based taxation | Citizenship based taxation |
| Family receive | Residence permits | Passports / Naturalization certificate |
| Right to vote | NO | Possible |
| Visa free | Regional | Worldwide |
