Grenada Citizenship by Investment

What Grenada citizenship grants, and the 2026 price

Grenada citizenship is full citizenship: a passport, transferable to children born after approval, with no minimum stay requirement. The National Transformation Fund is the main non-refundable route, priced at a flat $235,000 that covers one applicant or a family of up to four, with no separate lower single-applicant tier the way Dominica offers.

The Henley Passport Index, January 2026 edition, ranks Grenada around 27th globally, with roughly 147 visa-free or visa-on-arrival destinations, including the UK, the Schengen Area, China and Singapore.

Investment options

Real estate here carries a separate $50,000 government contribution on top of the purchase price, layered on since the 2024 changes, and both real estate routes carry a 5-year minimum hold.

How the process runs

Grenada requires applications through a government-authorized agent; there is no direct-to-government application route for investors. Gold Visa World is an advisory desk that structures applications and coordinates with licensed agent partners; we are not ourselves the government-licensed agent of record, and nothing here should be read as a claim otherwise.

Processing runs approximately 3 to 6 months from a complete application, per the program's own implementing guidance, faster on paper than Dominica's typical 6 to 9 months. Interview and biometric requirements are assessed case by case rather than mandatory for every applicant, unlike St Kitts' now-universal interview and 2026 biometric rule.

The exact current due diligence and processing fee schedule was not independently confirmed in this research pass. Several Caribbean programs revised their fee tables through 2025 and 2026 alongside the main investment thresholds, so we confirm the live schedule with a licensed agent before quoting a client a total. Refusals still happen here as elsewhere, generally over source-of-funds gaps or an undisclosed prior visa refusal; our due diligence guide goes through the mechanics in more depth.

Family pricing and costs beyond the NTF

The $235,000 NTF figure already covers a family of up to four, which is more generous per person than Grenada's own real estate routes. Additional dependents, and parents or grandparents added later, incur further per-person contributions that should be confirmed at the time of application rather than assumed from this page.

Real estate applicants pay more structurally: the fractional route is $270,000 plus the $50,000 government contribution, and sole ownership is $350,000 plus the same $50,000, both with a 5-year minimum hold before resale. None of these figures include legal or agent fees, which are additional. As with every Caribbean program on this site, we treat published fee tables as a starting point and confirm the current schedule before a client commits.

Who chooses Grenada, and the regulatory backdrop

The E-2 angle is the headline reason to pick Grenada specifically: after 3 years of Grenadian citizenship or domicile, an E-2 treaty holder can apply for the US E-2 non-immigrant investor visa, a route many nationalities cannot reach through their own passport. This is genuinely common among Chinese applicants, whose own citizenship law otherwise makes holding a foreign passport a complicated proposition, and it also suits Nigerian applicants who want that same US door alongside standard Caribbean travel freedom. Worth knowing separately: Henley & Partners has been Grenada's mandated global promotional partner since 2016, useful context when reading passport-ranking marketing that originates from Henley-linked sources.

It fits less well for applicants from Russia or Belarus, both banned outright. Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan and Yemen face conditional pathways, generally requiring ten years or more resident outside the origin country, per industry compliance trackers current to mid-2025; confirm your position per case with a licensed agent before advising any client from these origins, since these lists change with limited public notice.

The same EU pressure facing every Caribbean program applies here. An October 2025 European Parliament vote tightened the mechanism for suspending Schengen access over CBI programs, and a June 2026 European Commission letter asked Grenada and four other governments to tighten due diligence by September 2026 and phase out CBI entirely by 1 June 2028. Grenada remains visa-exempt for Schengen as of this writing, with the Commission's next review due December 2026.