🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — Planned citizenship by investment

Investment migration changes: current, scheduled and proposed rules →

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

Separate qualifying-family rules apply.

The Ministry of Finance reports an intended first-quarter 2027 rollout, with enhanced due diligence and regional coordination.

Presence

Residence and citizenship are different legal outcomes.

Holding / ongoing duties

Route-specific conditions apply

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

ETA / visit-visa exempt

Current ordinary Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national passport, after citizenship and passport issuance. UK short visits require an ETA unless an individual exemption applies; visitor conditions remain applicable.

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.

• Current ETA eligibility including Austria, Malta and St Vincent ↗UK Visas and Immigration · Government guidance · Checked 2026-10-24
  What this source supports

  Current ETA list includes Austria, Malta and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Update history records Botswana’s removal on 14 October 2025.

Schengen visits

Visa-exempt · 90/180

Current ordinary Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national passport, after citizenship and passport issuance. Short visits use the 90-days-in-180 limit and normal entry conditions.

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 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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

Conditional air eTA

Current ordinary Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national passport, after citizenship and passport issuance. Eligible air travellers may use an eTA if they held a Canadian visa in the last ten years or hold a valid US nonimmigrant visa. Other travellers and land/sea arrivals use applicable visitor-visa rules.

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.

• Conditional air-travel eTA eligibility ↗Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada · Government guidance · Checked 2026-10-24
  What this source supports

  St Vincent is on the eligible visa-required nationality list. Air travel, a Canadian visa in the past ten years or a current US nonimmigrant visa, and other eligibility conditions apply; land and sea travel require the appropriate visitor visa.

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.