Grenada Citizenship by Investment Cost: Every Fee You Will Actually Pay

A single applicant pays a $235,000 non-refundable contribution to the National Transformation Fund (NTF). Adding a spouse brings the total to $245,000. Each additional dependent under 18 adds $10,000, and dependents aged 18 to 25 or over 55 add $15,000 each. This route has no lock-up period and no exit strategy to plan for, which makes it the faster and administratively simpler option for applicants not interested in holding property.

The real estate route requires a minimum purchase of $270,000 in an approved development, held for at least five years before the property can be sold without the buyer losing citizenship eligibility. On top of the purchase price, applicants pay a government processing fee of $1,500 per main applicant, due diligence fees of $5,000 for the main applicant and $4,000 per adult dependent, and a passport fee of around $500 per person. The actual property must come from the government-approved list, and most approved units are resort shares or fractional interests rather than freehold land, so real-world resale liquidity is limited.

For a single applicant using the NTF route, the realistic all-in figure including due diligence ($5,000), processing ($1,500), and passport fee ($500) lands around $242,000. A couple using the same route pays roughly $256,000 all-in. A family of four (two adults, two minor children) on the NTF route reaches approximately $277,000 before any agent or legal fees. Agent and authorized representative fees are separate and typically run $10,000 to $25,000 depending on the firm and application complexity. If you are comparing these numbers against other Caribbean programs, this breakdown of second passport programs and their true costs puts Grenada in context alongside St. Kitts, Dominica, and Vanuatu.

Grenada has a bilateral investment treaty with the United States that allows Grenadian citizens to apply for an E-2 investor visa, giving them the ability to live and work in the US by investing in a US business, typically $100,000 to $200,000 depending on the business sector. No other Caribbean citizenship by investment country currently offers this. For applicants who want a path into the US without qualifying for EB-5 (which requires $800,000 to $1.05 million), the Grenada passport plus an E-2 application is structurally cheaper and faster by a significant margin.

Grenada's Citizenship by Investment Unit targets a 90-day processing window from the date a complete application is submitted. In practice, 3 to 5 months is more realistic when due diligence rounds require follow-up documentation, which is common for applicants from higher-scrutiny nationalities. The program does not currently offer a fast-track or priority processing fee option the way St. Kitts does with its Accelerated Application Process. Submitting through an authorized marketing agent rather than directly is mandatory, and agent quality directly affects how often the unit sends back requests for additional information.

A Grenada passport currently provides visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to approximately 145 countries, including the UK, the Schengen area, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Grenada itself imposes no taxes on worldwide income, capital gains, wealth, or inheritance for non-resident citizens, which means obtaining the passport does not create any new tax liability on its own. Applicants who are also breaking tax residency in their home country need to handle that process separately, since holding a Grenada passport does not automatically shift your tax residency.