Best passport by investment schemes

We have compiled the data for comparing citizenship by investment (CBI/CIP) passport schemes. This data consists of 30 very important factors to rank best passport by investment scheme to apply.

Passport by investment

The chart gives you in-depth knowledge into the countries running CBI schemes and you will have a chance to decide which country is the best for you taking into account education, healthcare and passport power, citizenship through generations, passport validity etc..

Passport by Investment (PBI)	Montenegro	Malta	Cyprus	St Kitts	Antigua	Grenada	Dominica	St Lucia	Vanuatu	Turkey	Bulgaria
Pricing	€350,000	€900K	€2.15M	$150K	$100K	$150K	$100K	$100K	$150K	$250K	€1M
Real Estate	€250,000	na	€2.5M	$200K	$200K	$220K	$200K	$300K	na	$250K	€1m
Safety Score	59.52	66.47	70.69	45.59	32.72	72.9	57.9	52.9	66.69	59.6	59.8
Visa free countries	123	182	173	151	150	143	137	145	129	111	169
Personal visit required	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
EU schengen visa free	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes
Visa free to United Kingdom	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes
Visa free to United States	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Visa free to Canada	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
Visa free to Russia	yes	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	yes	no	no
Visa free to China	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no
GDP billion	12	20	35.9	0.89	2.3	1.8	0.6	2.6	0.7	2300	171
How Rich CBI countries – GDP per capita $	19,120	44,587	41,572	15,573	25,998	16,600	9,720	15,225	2,631	8,625	24,577
Population	629K	432K	1.1M	55K	103K	108K	74K	179K	276K	81M	7M
CBI Passport time (months)	3	12	6	3	3	3	3	3	1	3	20
Residency conditions	3 weeks	12 months	6 months	0	5 days	0	0	0	0	0	20 months
Dual citizenship	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
EU citizenship / passport	no	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
E-2 treaty with US	yes	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	yes
Education Rank	74	48	19	130	129	95	97	117	148	76	47
Healthcare Rank	99	5	24	100	86	85	35	68	127	70	102
HDI Rank	50	29	32	72	70	75	103	90	138	64	51
Govt Publishes names in Official Gazette	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no
Government Debt	0.713	0.527	1.045	0.658	0.927	0.844	0.81	0.829	0.313	0.296	0.286
Personal Income Tax	0.15	0.35	0.35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.35	0.1
Strong currency	EUR	EUR	EUR	XCD	XCD	XCD	XCD	XCD	VT	TKL	BGN
Due Diligence	Strict	Very Strict	Strict	Good	Good	Good	Good	Strict	Good	Good	Strict
CBI Transparency	NA	Very Good	Average	Bad	Good	Good	Bad	Average	Bad	Average	Average
Passport Validity	10	10	10	10	5	5	10	5	10	10	10
Biometric Passport	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	yes	yes
Right to Vote / Govt Office	yes	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	yes
Third Generations Citizenship	yes	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no	no (honorary citizenship)	yes	yes
Passport renewal fee USD	30	570	80	350	300	175	1200 (expedited)	80	160	180	20

Note: Moldova CBI scheme has been suspended lately so we have not listed Moldova in the data list. Montenegro will be opening for applications only by end of 2019/start of 2020.

This data was used in our PBS scoring model to rank which CBI scheme is the best to apply.

We assigned points to these data and the results came through were very interesting.

You will notice

Vanuatu is one of the exclusive passports having the fastest processing times within a month. Vanuatu also increased passport validity to 10 years makes it very interesting
Antigua and Dominica signed visa waiver with Russia this year.
Grenada is the most valuable and best passport
St Kitts passport has access to most visa free countries in the Caribbean.

CBI	PBS Score	Rank
Malta	134	1
Grenada	130	2
Cyprus	126	3
Bulgaria	125	4
Montenegro	118	5
Turkey	116	6
Moldova (suspended)	114	7
St Kitts	113	8
Antigua	111	9
Dominica	101	10
St Lucia	100	11
Vanuatu	98	12