St. Kitts and Nevis, verified programme data (September 2026)

What is the minimum investment for St. Kitts and Nevis, as at September 2026?

The minimum qualifying investment for St. Kitts and Nevis is $250,000 via Sustainable Island State Contribution, as at September 2026. Government, due-diligence and professional fees are additional.

St. Kitts and Nevis — published investment routes, as at September 2026

Route	Type	Minimum
Sustainable Island State Contribution (SISC)	donation	$250,000
Public Benefit Option (PBO)	donation	$250,000
Approved Real Estate, Development Share/Condo	real estate	$325,000
Approved Real Estate, Private Single-Family Home	real estate	$600,000

Family pricing

• Single applicant: $250,000.
• The same $250,000 covers a family of up to four.
• Each additional dependant under 18: $25,000.
• Each additional adult dependant (18+): $50,000.
• SISC is a flat US$250,000 for a main applicant OR a family of up to 4. Additional dependants: US$25,000 each (under 18) / US$50,000 each (18+). Corrects prior outdated couple=$300k / family-of-4=$350k tiers. Re-verified 2026-08-09 against the official CIU SISC page, unchanged, and now identical to the harmonised PBO contribution table. SISC publishes NO post-approval application fees, which is its remaining cost advantage over PBO.

Government and due-diligence fees

• Due diligence, main applicant: $10,000.
• Due diligence, dependants 16+: $7,500.
• Total professional/third-party costs (licensed agent fees, legal, translation, medical, apostille) typically add USD 15,000-25,000 for a family.

St. Kitts and Nevis figures verified against ciu.gov.kn (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.

How long does St. Kitts and Nevis take to process?

Published processing time for St. Kitts and Nevis: 4-6 months, as at September 2026.

St. Kitts and Nevis figures verified against ciu.gov.kn (official source) on 2026-03-21 by the Mirabello data team.

What travel access does St. Kitts and Nevis provide?

The St. Kitts & Nevis passport reaches 157 destinations visa-free per Mirabello's tracked dataset, as at September 2026. As a direct citizenship programme, St. Kitts and Nevis leads to that passport on approval.

Key destinations for the St. Kitts & Nevis passport, as at September 2026

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

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

Does St. Kitts and Nevis lead to citizenship?

The residence and citizenship rules for St. Kitts and Nevis, as at September 2026:

• Citizenship: St. Kitts and Nevis is a direct citizenship programme — citizenship (and the St. Kitts & Nevis passport) is immediate (citizenship programme) on approval of the qualifying investment from $250,000.

St. Kitts and Nevis figures verified against ciu.gov.kn (official source) on 2026-03-21 by the Mirabello data team.

Who regulates St. Kitts and Nevis?

Citizenship Investment Unit (CIU) administers St. Kitts and Nevis, a programme operating since 1984. Applications from $250,000 are governed by the official framework published at ciu.gov.kn, as at September 2026.

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

St. Kitts and Nevis figures verified against ciu.gov.kn (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.

How fresh is this St. Kitts and Nevis data?

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

St. Kitts and Nevis — data freshness, computed 2026-09-18

Measure	Value
Verification confidence	76 / 100
Last verified	2026-09-13
Headline fields tracked	11
Fields past freshness SLA	4

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