Nauru · Citizenship by investment
Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Programme
Established under the Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Act 2024, with first applications from 1 January 2025. Pricing here is genuinely ambiguous, and the government's own site contradicts itself. The official contribution page lists USD 90,000 for the principal applicant, with a USD 25,000 discount stated to run until 31 December 2026. The official news page, though, says the same discount applies only to applications filed before 30 June 2026, a date that has now passed. That would put the undiscounted contribution at USD 115,000. Henley, separately, quotes a USD 120,000 standard rate and a USD 95,000 promotional rate. The launch price reported in March 2025 was USD 105,000. Confirm the current figure with the Programme Office before relying on any number here.
Nauru raised money faster than any new CBI programme in memory, and lost the United Kingdom faster too. On 9 December 2025 the UK imposed visit visa and Direct Airside Transit Visa requirements on Nauru nationals and removed ETA eligibility. The Migration Minister described citizenship-by-investment as inherently high-risk, saying it grants a new identity with minimal ties to the issuing jurisdiction. That is the same reasoning, from the same playbook, that ended Vanuatu's EU access. The programme is eleven months old and already one major partner down.
Qualifying routes
the Iruwa Initiative rate under a Cabinet resolution of 29 January 2026. The official contribution page says it runs to 31 December 2026. The official news page says applications must be filed before 30 June 2026.
the rate without the USD 25,000 discount. Henley publishes USD 120,000 instead, and the discrepancy remains unresolved.
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $90k
- Total landed cost
- At the discounted rate, the all-in cost for a single applicant runs to roughly USD 102,700. That breaks down as USD 90,000 contribution, USD 5,000 application fee, USD 6,000 due diligence, USD 1,200 bank due diligence and transaction charge, and USD 500 passport fee. Dependants aged 16+ add USD 2,000 contribution, USD 2,000 application and USD 3,000 due diligence each. Siblings add USD 15,000 contribution each. At the standard USD 115,000 contribution, the single-applicant total comes to roughly USD 127,700.
- Route type
- Citizenship by investment
- Timeline
- 3–5 months (The Programme Office states three to four months from submission to approval.)
- Physical presence
- There is no residence, visit or minimum stay requirement of any kind.
- Family
- SpouseDependent childrenParentsSiblings, at a contribution of USD 15,000 each
- Permanent residency
- Not applicable. Citizenship is granted directly.
- Citizenship
- Immediate. Citizenship is the product.
- Language test
- None
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- 18 or overclean criminal recordComprehensive Due Diligence conducted by the governmentevidence of source of fundscontribution paid only after due diligence clearanceno residence or visit requirement
- The UK route is closed. Since 9 December 2025, Nauru nationals need a visit visa for the UK and are no longer ETA-eligible. Anyone quoting UK or Ireland access for this passport is quoting a pre-December-2025 list.
- There is no Schengen access, and there never was. Nauru sits in Annex I of the EU visa regulation. Any material claiming European mobility for this passport is simply wrong.
- The EU's visa suspension mechanism, finalised by member states in June 2025, targets CBI schemes that lack genuine ties between investor and state. Nauru fits that description precisely, and has no waiver left to lose in the EU. Even so, the mechanism remains a live threat to the destinations that remain on the table.
- Even Nauru's own government cannot state the price consistently. The official contribution page and the official news page give different discount deadlines. That is a governance signal, not a clerical one.
- The price has moved repeatedly in eighteen months. It was USD 105,000 at launch, then a USD 115,000–120,000 standard, with a USD 90,000–95,000 promotion running under rolling deadlines. That discount-window urgency is a sales tactic. Treat the deadlines with skepticism and treat the price itself as unstable.
- The climate-resilience framing is marketing. The revenue funds Nauru's budget, and Nauru's fiscal history tells a different story. Phosphate collapse, offshore detention rents, the 1990s banking episode. None of it points to a record of durable programme administration.
- Nauru is one of the smallest and least diplomatically weighty states in the world. It has minimal capacity to defend the passport's standing if a partner country decides to withdraw access.
- Banking on a Nauru CBI passport is difficult. The programme's newness, combined with the United Kingdom's stated position, means enhanced due diligence is the best outcome you can expect.
- 85 visa-free destinations, and falling. This document is worth strictly less than it was at launch, and the trend is moving in one direction only.