🇲🇰North Macedonia — Special economic-interest naturalisation

Principal, spouse and two children aged under 12. Eligibility, age definitions and dependency rules apply.

Case-specific; verify legal entitlement

IMF table ends its marketed scheme in 2022; 2025 EU monitoring confirms the statutory exception and 2024 grants. Separate the two instead of calling the entire legal route closed.

Presence

Law allows acquisition without prior residence for special economic interest

Holding / ongoing duties

Not stated in this comparison

This route does not establish ordinary national-passport privileges. Short visits; personal circumstances and entry conditions apply. Each rule retains its own check date.

UK visits

Visitor visa required

Current ordinary North Macedonia national passport, after citizenship and passport issuance. The UK visitor visa nationality list requires advance entry clearance; individual status-based exceptions are separate.

Checked 2026-10-24.

• Current visitor visa nationality and ETA eligibility lists ↗UK Home Office / UKVI · Government guidance · Checked 2026-10-24
  What this source supports

  Visitor-visa list includes Botswana, Jordan, North Macedonia, Georgia, Serbia and Pakistan; Austria, Malta and St Vincent have ordinary-passport ETA access under the separately cited eligibility guidance.

Schengen visits

Visa-exempt · 90/180 · biometric passport

Current ordinary North Macedonia national passport, after citizenship and passport issuance. Short visits use the 90-days-in-180 limit and normal entry conditions. The waiver requires a biometric passport.

Checked 2026-10-24.

• Official nationality visa-requirements table and footnotes ↗German Federal Foreign Office · Government guidance · Checked 2026-10-24
  What this source supports

  Ordinary-passport visitor requirements: Botswana/Jordan/Pakistan require visas; St Vincent and Serbia are exempt for short stays; North Macedonia/Georgia require biometric passports for the exemption. The 90-in-180 and official-passport footnotes remain separate.

• Travel documents and Schengen entry for non-EU nationals ↗European Union / Your Europe · Government guidance · Checked 2026-10-24
  What this source supports

  Valid Schengen residence permits or long-stay visas can substitute for a short-stay visa; a recognised valid travel document and other entry conditions still apply. Short stays use the 90-in-180 rule.

USA visits

Visitor visa required

Current ordinary North Macedonia national passport, after citizenship and passport issuance. This nationality is outside the US Visa Waiver Program. Use the applicable visitor visa unless an individual status-based exception applies.

Checked 2026-10-24.

• Visa Waiver Program nationality and passport requirements ↗US Department of State · Government guidance · Checked 2026-10-24
  What this source supports

  VWP requires participating citizenship/nationality, a qualifying passport and ESTA. A noncitizen investment document does not itself establish those requirements.

Canada visits

Visitor visa required

Current ordinary North Macedonia national passport, after citizenship and passport issuance. IRCC lists this nationality as visa-required; personal status-based exceptions, including US lawful permanent residence, are separate.

Checked 2026-10-24.

• Entry requirements by nationality, status and travel document ↗Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada · Government guidance · Checked 2026-10-24
  What this source supports

  Entry conditions depend on citizenship, travel document, status and transport. Foreign residence does not itself create a new nationality. Canadian and US permanent residents have separately described document rules.

Global category counts, where shown above, are attributed publisher snapshots. The selected destination rules here use government evidence. Recognition of a document is separate from visa exemption.

Checked means the cited material was reviewed, not that the authority published a new rule that day. Source authority and retrieval limitations are recorded below.