Five live citizenship programs, one $200,000-ish floor, and different jobs. Dominica for a single cheque, Antigua for a family of four, Grenada for a US E-2 story, St Kitts for speed, Saint Lucia for route flexibility.
If you want a second citizenship in months, not a European residence card, you are in the right aisle. Five islands still sell it. They cost roughly the same after the 2024 regional floor. The mistake is chasing a visa-free count as if it were a permanent coupon.
The pain is a webinar that ranks "best passport" by a number that changed last quarter. The EU has said that running a citizenship-by-investment scheme is, by itself, a reason it could suspend visa-free access. ETIAS will add a form even while access lasts. Buy a nationality you can hold. Treat European travel as a benefit that can narrow.
| The job | Island to open first | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest donation for one adult | Dominica | EDF floor at $200,000 on the published donation story |
| Couple plus two children on one contribution story | Antigua & Barbuda | Priced around a family of four; 5-day visit in five years |
| I want a path to live in the US as an investor, not a green card | Grenada | E-2 treaty. The other four do not give you that. |
| Speed and the oldest brand | St Kitts & Nevis | Typically the fastest clean file |
| I want a bond or more than one legal route | Saint Lucia | Route flexibility, including a bond story |
Price your actual household on /countries/caribbean/household-fees. The headline donation is not the all-in. Due diligence, interviews, and agent fees sit on top. Russians, Belarusians and Iranians are widely excluded. Unauthorised agents are how files die.
Hidden gem: Grenada's E-2 is a US non-immigrant investor visa, not a green card and not US citizenship. People flatten that into "Grenada = America." It is a work-and-live visa with its own refusal risk. Hidden gem two: Antigua's five-day visit is the only real presence rule in the five. The others are zero. Do not pick Antigua and then act surprised.
What people on the internet are saying: 2025–2026 threads worry about EU suspension more than they used to, which is correct, and then still buy on a visa-free table, which is human. Secondary. Our citizenship cluster already says the durable value is a heritable nationality.
If you need to keep Indian or Chinese citizenship, this aisle may be the wrong shop. Read those nationality pages first.
None is best. Dominica is usually the cheapest single adult donation. Antigua is often the family-of-four value. Grenada is the E-2 island. St Kitts is speed and brand. Saint Lucia is flexibility.
We cannot promise you will keep it. The Commission has said CBI itself is a suspension ground. As of mid-2026 the five still travel visa-free to Schengen, with ETIAS coming. Treat that as reviewable.
Only Antigua has a short visit rule in the first five years. The others do not require residence to keep the citizenship.
It is citizenship by investment. Different legal object from Portugal or Greece. We file it here because that is how people search.
