Source: https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/

# Merit and staged citizenship routes

### [🇦🇱Albania](https://cbi.me/programme-updates/albania/)

Investor citizenship proposal

Suspended proposal · European Commission assessment, 2025

### [🇦🇹Austria](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/austria-exceptional-achievements/)

Exceptional achievements, §10(6)

Discretionary · No published purchase price

### [🇨🇻Cabo Verde](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/cabo-verde-investment/)

Investment nationality and effective community connection

Nationality legislation · Investment-related nationality provisions

### [🇰🇭Cambodia](https://cbi.me/programme-updates/cambodia/)

Donation / investment naturalisation exceptions

Nationality legislation · Published nationality legislation

### [🇬🇪Georgia](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/georgia-by-exception/)

Citizenship by exception

Discretionary · No published passport purchase amount

### [🇯🇴Jordan](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/jordan/)

Investor citizenship —2026 framework

Conditional · JOD 500,000 productive project outside capital

### [🇲🇹Malta](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/malta-by-merit/)

Citizenship by merit

Discretionary · No published purchase price

### [🇲🇰North Macedonia](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/north-macedonia/)

Special economic-interest naturalisation

Discretionary · Citizenship by special interest

### [🇵🇰Pakistan](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/pakistan-commonwealth/)

Commonwealth foreign-exchange citizenship route

Conditional · PKR 5,000,000 foreign-exchange transfer

### [🇼🇸Samoa](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/samoa/)

Citizenship Investment Act pathway

Statutory pathway under policy review · 2015 Act default: WST 4 million qualifying investment

### [🇷🇸Serbia](https://cbi.me/citizenship-routes/serbia-national-interest/)

Citizenship in the national interest

Discretionary ·