11 Countries Where You Can Buy a Second Passport

11 Countries Where You Can Buy a Second Passport — and How Much It Costs

Though it is illegal to flat-out purchase a passport to another country of which you are not a citizen, it is legal, in some countries, for an American to purchase citizenship, which would then grant them a second passport.

International Living recently posted a blog (in light of surging interest among Americans to secure residency abroad) that identified the 11 countries that have Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs. These are countries where Americans can essentially buy (or invest) their way into passport-holding citizenship.

How much do these CBIs in each of these countries cost and what are the conditions to qualify?

Egypt

Cost: $100,000 donation or $500,000 bank deposit (no interest)
Conditions: 3-year hold on bank deposit

Vanuatu

Cost: $130,000 donation
Conditions: None

Dominica

Cost: $200,000 donation or $200,000 approved real estate
Conditions: 5-year hold of real estate; no name changes within 5 years.

Antigua & Barbuda

Cost: $230,000 donation or $300,000 approved real estate
Conditions: 5-year hold of real estate; presence required for the first five days of the first 5 years.