{
  "checked": "2026-10-13",
  "scope": "Investor-linked international passports only in CBI. Conditional resident, refugee, stateless and domestic residence booklets remain audit-only.",
  "registerDates": {
    "part-i": "2026-10-02",
    "part-ii": "2025-05-14"
  },
  "countries": [
    {
      "code": "ARM",
      "name": "Armenia",
      "flag": "🇦🇲",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "excluded",
      "document": "Special residence booklet",
      "finding": "Economic activity can support special residence, but the special passport is for use in Armenia. Use a national passport abroad.",
      "sources": [
        "am-special-doc"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "AUS",
      "name": "Australia",
      "flag": "🇦🇺",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Noncitizen travel document",
      "finding": "Refugee, statelessness or inability to obtain national document; no citizenship or right of reentry conferred.",
      "sources": [
        "au-noncit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "CAN",
      "name": "Canada",
      "flag": "🇨🇦",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Certificate of identity",
      "finding": "Permanent resident who is stateless or cannot obtain a national travel document for a valid reason; separate eligibility.",
      "sources": [
        "ca-coi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "HKG",
      "name": "China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region",
      "flag": "🇭🇰",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Document of Identity",
      "finding": "Residents unable to obtain a national passport or another travel document; investment alone does not establish eligibility.",
      "sources": [
        "hk-doi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "EST",
      "name": "Estonia",
      "flag": "🇪🇪",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-ii",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Alien passport",
      "finding": "Residence status plus inability to obtain a foreign national travel document; no investor-only entitlement.",
      "sources": [
        "ee-alien"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FIN",
      "name": "Finland",
      "flag": "🇫🇮",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-ii",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Alien passport",
      "finding": "Separate travel-document eligibility; residence investment alone does not confer entitlement.",
      "sources": [
        "fi-alien"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "JOR",
      "name": "Jordan",
      "flag": "🇯🇴",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "included",
      "document": "Investor-linked temporary passport",
      "finding": "No nationality at temporary stage; later conditional recommendation.",
      "sources": [
        "jo-passport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "KIR",
      "name": "Kiribati",
      "flag": "🇰🇮",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "archived",
      "document": "Investor passport — archived",
      "finding": "Investor passport without Kiribati citizenship.",
      "sources": [
        "pacific-passports-gazette",
        "nz-archived-passports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "LVA",
      "name": "Latvia",
      "flag": "🇱🇻",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-ii",
      "category": "excluded",
      "document": "Noncitizen passport",
      "finding": "Historical noncitizen status has prescribed former-USSR residence and nationality conditions; investing does not grant it.",
      "sources": [
        "lv-noncit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "NZL",
      "name": "New Zealand",
      "flag": "🇳🇿",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Certificate of identity",
      "finding": "Separate inability-to-obtain-national-passport evidence; not an automatic investor benefit.",
      "sources": [
        "nz-coi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PAN",
      "name": "Panama",
      "flag": "🇵🇦",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "included",
      "document": "Investor-linked special passport",
      "finding": "",
      "sources": [
        "pa-rentista",
        "pa-passport-law",
        "pa-apap"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "PRY",
      "name": "Paraguay",
      "flag": "🇵🇾",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "excluded",
      "document": "Investor Pass residence",
      "finding": "Official programme grants permanent residence and a cédula. International investor passport entitlement is not established by the launch article.",
      "sources": [
        "py-investor-pass"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "SGP",
      "name": "Singapore",
      "flag": "🇸🇬",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Certificate of identity",
      "finding": "Stateless Singapore permanent residents; investor permanent residence alone is insufficient.",
      "sources": [
        "sg-coi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "SWE",
      "name": "Sweden",
      "flag": "🇸🇪",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-ii",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Alien passport",
      "finding": "Residence and inability to obtain a national passport under specified eligibility; separate assessment.",
      "sources": [
        "se-alien"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "TON",
      "name": "Tonga",
      "flag": "🇹🇴",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "archived",
      "document": "Protected Person passport — archived",
      "finding": "Protected-person passport; no Tongan nationality at that stage.",
      "sources": [
        "to-protected-law",
        "nz-archived-passports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "TUV",
      "name": "Tuvalu",
      "flag": "🇹🇻",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "archived",
      "document": "Paid resident passport — archived",
      "finding": "Permanent resident status + passport; no citizenship.",
      "sources": [
        "pacific-passports-gazette"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ARE",
      "name": "United Arab Emirates",
      "flag": "🇦🇪",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "excluded",
      "document": "Investor nationality nomination",
      "finding": "Actual nationality may be granted after sovereign nomination and approval. This is not a noncitizen investor passport or fixed-price CBI programme.",
      "sources": [
        "ae-nationality"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "GBR",
      "name": "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland",
      "flag": "🇬🇧",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Certificate of travel",
      "finding": "Qualifying leave and inability or unreasonable refusal to obtain a national passport; separate evidence.",
      "sources": [
        "uk-cot"
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "USA",
      "name": "United States of America",
      "flag": "🇺🇸",
      "registryMatched": true,
      "registryPart": "part-i",
      "category": "conditional",
      "document": "Reentry permit",
      "finding": "LPR must apply while physically in the US; travel-document use depends on destination acceptance. Not nationality.",
      "sources": [
        "us-reentry"
      ]
    }
  ]
}