Mauritius · Citizenship by investment
Citizenship by Investment (Sovereign Fund contribution)
Closed
Last verified July 2026
Announced in the 2018 Budget Speech: a USD 1m non-refundable contribution to a Mauritius Sovereign Fund for citizenship, and USD 500k for a passport for each dependant. It was never implemented, and has since been dropped. Mauritius has no citizenship-by-investment programme, and never has had one.
This programme is closed. We keep the page up because agents still advertise it and clients still ask. Nothing below is available to new applicants.
We include this because so many intermediaries still advertise Mauritius citizenship by investment on slick pricing pages. There is no such programme. There never was one. The only route to a Mauritian passport is naturalisation, and that requires renouncing your existing nationality.
Qualifying routes
$1M
Sovereign Fund contribution (never implemented)
announced 2018, never legislated, never opened
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $1M
- Total landed cost
- Not applicable. The programme never existed in operation.
- Route type
- Citizenship by investment
- Physical presence
- Not applicable
- Permanent residency
- Not applicable
- Citizenship
- Mauritian citizenship is available only by descent, by registration through marriage, or by naturalisation.
- Language test
- Not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted. You would have to renounce.
What can go wrong
- If a firm quotes you a price for Mauritian citizenship by investment, it is either misinformed or misleading you. Treat that as a disqualifying signal about the adviser.
- The closest real option is a ministerial discretion to shorten naturalisation residence to 2 years with USD 500k invested. Even then, you still need two years of actual residence, and it still triggers renunciation.