Antigua and Barbuda, verified programme data (September 2026)

What is the minimum investment for Antigua and Barbuda, as at September 2026?

The minimum qualifying investment for Antigua and Barbuda is $230,000 via National Development Fund donation, as at September 2026. Government, due-diligence and professional fees are additional.

Antigua and Barbuda — published investment routes, as at September 2026

Route	Type	Minimum
National Development Fund (NDF)	donation	$230,000
Approved Real Estate Investment	real estate	$300,000
University of the West Indies (UWI) Fund	donation	$260,000

Family pricing

• Single applicant: $230,000.
• The same $230,000 covers a family of up to four.
• The NDF contribution is US$230,000 regardless of family size (single applicant, family of 4, and family of 5+). For a family of 5 or more, a US$10,000 government PROCESSING fee applies per additional dependent from the 5th person onward, the US$230,000 contribution itself does not increase. Corrects the prior erroneous '$15,000 per additional dependent on the contribution'.

Government and due-diligence fees

• Due diligence, main applicant: $8,500.
• Due diligence, dependants 18+: $4,000.

Antigua and Barbuda figures verified against cip.gov.ag (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.

How long does Antigua and Barbuda take to process?

Published processing time for Antigua and Barbuda: 4-7 months, as at September 2026.

Antigua and Barbuda figures verified against cip.gov.ag (official source) on 2026-03-21 by the Mirabello data team.

What travel access does Antigua and Barbuda provide?

The Antigua & Barbuda passport reaches 154 destinations visa-free per Mirabello's tracked dataset, as at September 2026. As a direct citizenship programme, Antigua and Barbuda leads to that passport on approval.

Key destinations for the Antigua & Barbuda passport, as at September 2026

Destination	Access
Schengen	visa-free
Uk	eTA required
China	visa-free
Hong Kong	visa-free
Singapore	visa-free

Antigua and Barbuda figures verified against en.wikipedia.org (secondary source) on 2026-09-13 by the Mirabello data team.

Does Antigua and Barbuda lead to citizenship?

The residence and citizenship rules for Antigua and Barbuda, as at September 2026:

• Citizenship: Antigua and Barbuda is a direct citizenship programme — citizenship (and the Antigua & Barbuda passport) is immediate (citizenship programme) on approval of the qualifying investment from $230,000.

Antigua and Barbuda figures verified against cip.gov.ag (official source) on 2026-03-21 by the Mirabello data team.

Who regulates Antigua and Barbuda?

Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) / National Immigrations and Finance Unit (NIF) administers Antigua and Barbuda, a programme operating since 2013. Applications from $230,000 are governed by the official framework published at cip.gov.ag, as at September 2026.

Regulatory watchlists: not listed on FATF, EU tax, US OFAC, or OECD CRS-risk lists (as of 2026-06).

Antigua and Barbuda figures verified against cip.gov.ag (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.

How fresh is this Antigua and Barbuda data?

Every headline figure for Antigua and Barbuda is provenance-tracked: each field carries a source URL, a source tier and a verification date, audited weekly.

Antigua and Barbuda — data freshness, computed 2026-09-18

Measure	Value
Verification confidence	67 / 100
Last verified	2026-09-13
Headline fields tracked	7
Fields past freshness SLA	4

The identical data_freshness block for Antigua and Barbuda is published machine-readable in /index.json, verified 2026-09-13.