The Caribbean islands that give you a passport if you buy a home

Slide in houses for sale in the Eastern Caribbean, and it is no longer a comfortable lifestyle that fascinates the beaches and launched to buyers.

More and more list of property also offers a passport – and the political and social volatility in the US is said to have an interesting increase.

Five of the nations of the region – Antigua and Barbuda and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis and St Lucia – with an investment of less than $ 200,000 (CBI), offers such citizenship.

Buy a house, and you will also get a passport that provides a visa -free access to 150 countries, including the Schengen region of Europe and everyone other than Dominika.

For the rich, the lack of taxes such as capital gains and inheritance of the islands, and in some cases, it is another great attraction with income. And five of the region allow buyers to protect their current citizenship.

In Antigua, real estate agents are struggling to keep up with the demand. “Currently, 70% of all buyers want citizenship and the majority comes from the United States.”

“We don’t talk to them politics, but unstable political landscape [in the US] It is definitely a factor.

“Last year, this time, they were all lifestyle buyers and a few CBI.

Despite Antigua’s non -residence requirement, some buyers want to move full -time, Dyson says: “A few have already moved.”

According to investment migration experts Henley & Partners, US citizens constitute a large part of the CBI practices in the CBI last year.

UK, which has offices in the world, says that Ukraine, Türkiye, Nigeria and China are among the most common origin countries.

He added that the general applications for CBI programs have increased by 12% since the fourth quarter of 2024.

According to the Dominic volume of the consultancy, everything from weapon violence to anti -Semitism puts Americans in Tenterhooks.

“Approximately 10-15% actually changes. For most of them, an insurance policy against everything they are worried about. It is a good backup plan to have a second citizenship.”

Mr. Volek says that the Caribbean passports have objected to businessmen and also offer a security assistance. “Some US customers prefer to travel more politically on a similar passport.”

Before Covid Pandemi, the US was not even on Henley’s “radar”, Mr. Vollek continues.

Movement restrictions have proved to be “very shock” for wealthy people used to travel freely in special jets, and caused the first increase in state CBI applications. After the 2020 and 2024 US elections, interest increased again.

Volek, “There are democrats who do not like Trump, but also republicans who do not like democrats.” Says.

He continued: “In the last two years, we have opened two to three more in all big cities, in the coming months of having eight from zero offices in the USA.”

Robert Taylor of Califax in Canada bought a property he plans to retire this year in Antigua.

Last summer, the real estate threshold invested $ 200,000 just before it was raised to $ 300,000.

Being a citizen not only avoids the restrictions of stay, but also gives him the freedom to benefit from business opportunities. “I chose Antigua because I have beautiful water, I find people very, very friendly, and it also means a great weather for the next part of my life.”

Nevertheless, such programs are not without discussion. Passport sales were first discussed by the Antiguan government as a way of supporting the patient economy, some of them saw morality as a bit of worship.

The protesters went to the streets in condemnation, remembering the former speaker of the Gisele Isaac house. “There was a sense of nationalism, people felt that we sold our identity to people who didn’t know anything about us, or he says.

The leaders of some other CBIs that did not offer CBIs were quick to criticize, including St Vincent and Prime Minister of Grenadins Ralph Gonsalves. Previously, citizenship should not be a “meta for sale”, he said.

There is a fear that loose surveillance between the international society can help criminals to cross the boundaries.

While the European Union threatened to withdraw its popular visa -free access to the CBI countries, the US has previously increased concerns about the potential of such plans to be used as a tool for tax evasion and financial crime.

A European Commission spokesman tells the BBC that he has “watched” the five Caribbean plan and has been negotiating with his own officials since 2022.

He says that an ongoing assessment is trying to prove that citizenship is “whether the abuse of the visa -free regime through investment, and whether these countries lead to security risks for the EU and the EU”.

The Commission accepted the reforms carried out by the islands who said it would have an impact on the evaluation.

Five Caribbean nations reacted to claiming that they did not do enough to examine the applicants.

Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerit described his country’s CBI program as “solid and transparent” and added that he worked hard to ensure the integrity of the authorities.

The government said that passport sales have made more than $ 1 billion dollars since the initiative has paid for vital infrastructure, including a state -of -the -art hospital since its establishment in 1993.

In St Lucia, Prime Minister Philip J Pierre said that the island’s CBI is the highest safety standards to incorce it not to help illegal activities.

The need to calm the world’s superpowers by generating income is a sensitive balance of balance for small Caribbean countries, depending on the whims of tourism.

The CBI programs were labeled as a life line at a regional industry summit in April, and funds were used for everything from cleaning to national pension plans after natural disasters. Antigua’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne said that the collected money has brought the country back from the bankruptcy threshold in the last decade.

In addition to purchasing property, other ways for Caribbean citizenship through investment generally make a national development fund or similar donations. For a single applicant, $ 200,000 in Dominica varies to $ 250,000 for the main applicant, and to the three qualification addicts in Dominika and St Kitts. In Antigua, investors also have the option to donate 260,000 dollars to the University of West Indese Islands.

In the face of international oppression, the islands decided to take new measures to increase their supervision, including setting up the standards, monitoring operations and creating a regional regulator to adapt.

In addition, there are six principles understood with the United States, advanced situation detection, regular audits, compulsory interviews with all applicants, and the abolition of a gap that allows a country to apply to another country.

These days, passport sales make up 10-30% of the GDP of the islands.

Andre Huie, a journalist in St Kitts, says that its country’s CBI plan is “generally well -supported”. “The people understand the value of the economy and appreciate what the government can do with money.”