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Verified programme data · Citizenship by investment
Vanuatu offers the fastest citizenship-by-investment route worldwide, from USD 130,000 with approval often in 1-2 months. Note: it does not provide visa-free access to the EU Schengen Area following the 2024 suspension.
As at 2026-09-01 · Verified against Vanuatu Citizenship Office / Citizenship Commission (immigration.gov.vu) by the Mirabello data team, last verified 2026-06-28.The minimum qualifying investment for Vanuatu is $130,000 via Development Support Program contribution, as at September 2026. Government, due-diligence and professional fees are additional.
| Route | Type | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Development Support Programme (DSP) | donation | $130,000 |
Vanuatu figures verified against immigration.gov.vu (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.
Published processing time for Vanuatu: 45-60 days, as at September 2026.
Vanuatu figures verified against vancitizenship.gov.vu (official source) on 2026-09-01 by the Mirabello data team.
The Vanuatu passport reaches 90 destinations visa-free per Mirabello's tracked dataset, as at September 2026. As a direct citizenship programme, Vanuatu leads to that passport on approval.
| Destination | Access |
|---|---|
| Schengen | VISA REQUIRED |
| Uk | VISA REQUIRED |
| Usa | Visa required (B-1/B-2) |
| China | visa-free |
| Hong Kong | visa-free |
| Singapore | visa-free |
Vanuatu figures verified against en.wikipedia.org (secondary source) on 2026-09-13 by the Mirabello data team.
The residence and citizenship rules for Vanuatu, as at September 2026:
Vanuatu figures verified against immigration.gov.vu (official source) on 2026-03-21 by the Mirabello data team.
Vanuatu Citizenship Office / Citizenship Commission administers Vanuatu, a programme operating since 2017. Applications from $130,000 are governed by the official framework published at vancitizenship.gov.vu, as at September 2026.
Vanuatu figures verified against immigration.gov.vu (official source) on 2026-06-28 by the Mirabello data team.
Every headline figure for Vanuatu is provenance-tracked: each field carries a source URL, a source tier and a verification date, audited weekly.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Verification confidence | 74 / 100 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-13 |
| Headline fields tracked | 6 |
| Fields past freshness SLA | 2 |
The identical data_freshness block for Vanuatu is published machine-readable in /index.json, verified 2026-09-13.
Query this programme via the Mirabello MCP tool get_programme with id vanuatu-cbi at mcp.mirabelloconsultancy.com, read this programme's machine-readable record (JSON) at https://mcp.mirabelloconsultancy.com/v1/programmes/vanuatu-cbi, or the open dataset at /index.json. Same figures, same provenance, machine-readable.
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