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Holding only one citizenship is like investing your life saving in the shares of a single company – a second passport can change that.
No matter how great you might think a particular company – or country – is, times can change and there is tremendous value in diversification. About 75 percent of the world’s countries permit the holding of multiple citizenships today (up from about 30 percent in 1990). Note that the term “dual citizenship” is a misnomer – countries either allow multiple or theirs alone, thus you can acquire as many as you like if all countries in your portfolio allow multiple.
Among those that allow multiple are the USA, Australia and most countries in the EU and Latin America. You might be surprised to learn that there are currently 15 countries in the world with official citizenship by investment programs to grant citizenship in exchange for a donation to or an investment in the given country. Naturally they all allow multiple citizenship.
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Freedom to travel.
Holding passports from different countries expands your travel freedom. For example, if you’re only an American citizen you can’t travel to North Korea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. You cannot even apply for a visa – you simply can’t visit those countries. This list is expected to grow as reciprocal measures are taken by the 75 countries whose citizens were recently made ineligible for US visas. Then there are countries like Russia and Ghana that allow Americans to visit (for now) but require them to go through an onerous visa application process.
Freedom to live and work.
Citizenship doesn’t just allow you to travel with the passport of a given country. It also allows you to live in that country but more importantly it often gives you a privileged path to residency and citizenship in other countries. The key is to consider blocs – groups of countries that through mutual association offer special rights to the citizens of other bloc members. The best-known example of such a bloc is the European Union but there are many others. For example, citizens of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) similarly enjoy free movement within their respective blocs.
As a Santomean citizen you can live in São Tomé and Príncipe of course but you can also take up legal residence in Brazil or Portugal as all three countries are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, a bloc that doesn’t offer full free movement but does offer bloc member citizens express paths to residency and citizenship in other member countries (without any sort of investment or donation to Brazil or Portugal). The best passport portfolios are those that combine countries from different blocs. Luckily, there are several citizenship by investment programs which offer access to blocs.
Which countries offer citizenship by investment?
Below is a complete list of all the citizenship by investment/donation programs (CBIs) that exist in the world today. The number after each country represents the minimum donation or investment amount in USD for a single applicant. All these programs allow for adding family members at a reduced cost compared to the primary applicant. I have noted when a country is a member of a bloc that offers free movement. Blocs include the OECS (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States), CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries), ECOWAS (The Economic Community of West African States) and the Central America-4 Free Mobility Agreement.
Regarding the African Union, the AU free movement protocol has been ratified by 4 of its member states and is due to come into force after 15 members have ratified it (activating free movement between those 15). Of the two African countries listed below, São Tomé & Príncipe is the only one that has ratified the protocol. Thus, while AU free movement is not in force today, it could open several new doors in the future.
🇵🇰 Pakistan – 18k donation – not a member of a free movement bloc
🇸🇹 São Tomé & Príncipe – 90k donation – CPLP, African Union
🇳🇷 Nauru – 105k donation – not a member of a free movement bloc
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone – 140k donation – ECOWAS, African Union
(100k donation if you have any sub-Saharan African ancestry based on an approved DNA test)
🇻🇺 Vanuatu – 130k donation – not a member of a free movement bloc
🇩🇲 Dominica – 200k donation (real estate investment option for more) – OECS
🇦🇬 Antigua & Barbuda – 230k donation (real estate investment option for more) – OECS
🇬🇩 Grenada – 235k donation (real estate investment option for more) – OECS
🇱🇨 Saint Lucia – 240k donation (other investment option for more, notably a bond option) – OECS
🇰🇭 Cambodia – 245k donation (other investment option for more) – not a member of a free movement bloc
🇪🇬 Egypt – 250k donation (several different investment options for more) – not a member of a free movement bloc
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts & Nevis – 250k donation (real estate investment option for more) – OECS
🇯🇴 Jordan – About 493,659 invested into a local business (highly conditional) – not a member of a free movement bloc
🇹🇷 Turkey – 400k invested in real estate or 500,000 in other investments like bonds – not a member of a free movement bloc
🇸🇻 El Salvador – 1,000,000 donation – Central America-4 Free Mobility Agreement bloc
Two of these countries, Sierra Leone and São Tomé & Príncipe, launched their citizenship by investment programs in 2025. I think those two countries currently offer the best value to westerners who are looking to expand their access to the global south – in terms of visa-free travel, right of residence, asset protection and privacy.
São Tomé & Príncipe (STP) is especially unique as it opens the door to residency in Brazil and Portugal (without any investment or donation to those countries) via the CPLP mobility agreement and the corresponding CPLP visa that is available in each country. STP citizens that take up residence in Brazil are eligible for expedited naturalization. STP citizens also enjoy the right to consular assistance from Portuguese diplomatic missions in countries where STP does not have a diplomatic mission of its own, as per the CPLP consular cooperation agreement.
If you want to secure your access to the global south, visit every country in the world, protect your privacy or simply gain the peace of mind that a plan-B passport brings, feel free to contact me via my website (Peck & Nascimben Global), ask me about in person if we end up on a YPT tour together, or have a listen to my recent appearance on the Young Pioneer Tours Podcast!
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