Grenada

Not directly. This is the single most misrepresented fact in Caribbean CBI. Section 5902 of Public Law 117-263, the AMIGOS Act provision within the FY2023 NDAA, signed into law on 23 December 2022, amended INA §101(a)(15)(E). The change means that anyone who acquired treaty-country nationality through financial investment cannot obtain an E-1 or E-2 visa until they have been domiciled in that country for a continuous period of not less than three years. Buying Grenadian citizenship gives you the right to move to Grenada, live there for three years, and then apply. Domicile is a stricter standard than residence. It means Grenada has to become your true, permanent home, not just a place you visit. Agents routinely sell the idea that Grenadian citizenship equals an E-2 visa, without mentioning this three-year bar.

Yes. People who obtained Grenadian CBI citizenship before 27 December 2022 are not caught, and people previously granted E-visa status are exempt too. Nationality acquired some other way, whether by birth, descent, marriage or ordinary naturalisation, is not caught either. So a client who acquired Grenadian citizenship in 2021 can file now. One buying in 2026, by contrast, starts the domicile clock on the move, not on the passport.

No. The E-2 is a nonimmigrant visa. It is renewable indefinitely, but it confers no permanent residence and no path to a green card. It requires a substantial, at-risk, non-marginal investment in a real operating US business. There is no statutory minimum, but the investment must be substantial relative to the business and must generate more than a minimal living. Children age out of derivative status at 21. This is a business-operator visa, not an immigration solution.

It is open, and it was repriced from 1 July 2024 by the Grenada Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (SRO 15 of 2024), made under the Grenada Citizenship by Investment Act No. 15 of 2013. The National Transformation Fund minimum is USD 235,000 for a single applicant or a family of four. Worth noting: Grenada's own official CBI website was still showing a stale USD 150,000 figure when checked in July 2026. The binding numbers are in SRO 15 of 2024, not on the website. The programme is administered by the Investment Migration Agency (IMA), which replaced the former CIU on 25 March 2024.

No. Grenada was not named in the December 2025 US travel proclamation, unlike Antigua and Dominica, and it retains UK access. It also has a quiet advantage the other four lack: visa-free access to mainland China. As at June 2026 the passport ranks 29 on the Henley index with 147 visa-free destinations. Schengen access remains exposed, however, under Regulation (EU) 2025/2441, Article 8a(1)(e), which makes running the scheme itself a ground for suspension.

Grenada's rejection rate has climbed to around 14%. That is by far the highest of the five, and it is a due-diligence credit rather than a defect. Application volume rebounded 122% in Q3 2025. Processing averaged 7 months in Q4 2025, with an invitation-only route reported to deliver 3–4 months for vetted UHNW applicants. A high rejection rate is evidence that a file which gets approved will hold up under scrutiny. That matters at a moment when EU and US authorities are questioning the sector's rigour.

Of the USD 235,000 National Transformation Fund contribution, a minimum of USD 200,000 is retained by government and up to USD 35,000 goes to agent commission. That split is how the USD 200,000 OECS floor gets satisfied. It pays to understand what you are actually buying. The co-ownership real estate route requires the unit to be valued at a total minimum of USD 540,000, raised from USD 440,000 by SRO 15 within days of SRO 12, with a 20% developer-equity precondition, plus a USD 50,000 government contribution. Check the current SRO before relying on any figure.

Grenada allows dual citizenship, so you do not have to give anything up. Residents pay 10% tax on the first XCD 24,000 and 28% above that, with a personal allowance of XCD 36,000. Foreign-source income is not taxed, and there is no capital gains, wealth or inheritance tax. Citizenship on its own does not make you a tax resident and brings no tax benefit by itself. You would need genuine presence in the country for that. Grenada participates in the CRS, and the OECD lists its CBI scheme as potentially high-risk for CRS circumvention.