Grenada Citizenship by Investment in 2026

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, not a licensed agent: we prepare the file with you and refer it to a licensed agent of record, named to you in writing before you pay anything.

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 the live schedule is confirmed with the licensed agent of record before any total is quoted to you. 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.

Grenada processing time in 2026

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

The US E-2 angle runs on a separate clock. The E-2 is a US visa, applied for with the US authorities after 3 years of Grenadian citizenship or domicile, so it sits outside the CBI timeline entirely. Our Caribbean CBI processing times guide compares Grenada with the other three programs.

What typically lengthens a Grenada file:

• A request for an interview or enhanced due diligence on a higher-risk profile
• Source-of-funds gaps that need a second explanation
• Real estate routes, where the approved project's own paperwork adds steps
• Adding parents or grandparents, whose documents and contributions are assessed separately

Grenada requirements checklist

The authorised agent issues the current list and forms. A typical Grenada file asks for:

• A valid passport for every applicant, with certified copies
• Birth certificates, and marriage or divorce documents where relevant
• Police clearance certificates from your country of citizenship and countries of residence
• A medical certificate for each applicant
• Source-of-funds and source-of-wealth evidence, with bank and professional references
• Proof of residential address
• For real estate routes: the approved project documents and purchase agreement
• Certified English translations of documents not issued in English

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 with the licensed agent of record before committing funds if you come from one of these countries, 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.

Official source and how to read this page

Official source: Grenada Citizenship by Investment Committee and CBI Unit, Government of Grenada. Figures as published on this site in September 2026, confirm per case: the current due diligence and processing fee schedule was not independently verified, and passport data is from the Henley Passport Index, January 2026 edition.

Not legal advice. This page summarises published program rules so you can compare options. Eligibility, fees and timing for your own family are confirmed by the licensed agent of record before you commit funds, and program rules can change with little notice.