DOMINICA
Investor Program
Advantages
• Citizenship and a second passport for life for the applicant and dependent family members • Travel visa-free to more than 115 countries
• Visa Free access to Schengen Area countries granted in May 2015
• Enjoy tax free status
• No requirement to reside in Dominica
• No management or educational requirements
• No country restrictions (Open to all applicants)
Requirements
• Applicants can make a non-refundable donation to the government fund or invest
in a government approved real-estate project
• Be over 18 years old
• Have no criminal record
• Provide all the documents are required in English
• Provide a letter of application for economic citizenship addressed to the Minister
responsible for Citizenship
• Have basic knowledge of the English language
• Make a deposit in a bank account at the National Commercial Bank of Dominica
• Must use a government authorised agent
Investment Options
1. The Government Fund option (non-refundable) Minimum to be invested:
• USD 100,000 for a single applicant
• USD 175,000 for applicant accompanied by a spouse
• USD 175,000 for applicant accompanied by up to two children under 18 years old
• USD 200,000 for applicant accompanied by a spouse and two children under 18
years old
• Add USD 50,000 for each additional dependent of the main applicant other than
a spouse 2. The Real Estate option (saleable after 3 years) Purchase authorised
real estate with a minimum value of USD 200,000, which must be held for at least
three years. In addition to the cost of the real-estate the following additional
government fees apply:
• Main applicant: USD 50,000
• Spouse: USD 25,000
• Dependent under 18: USD 20,000
• Dependant aged 18-25: USD 50,000
Process (3-4 months)
• Prepare all the documents required and submit them via an authorised agent, and
pay due diligence fees
• After approval, every applicant must sign an oath of allegiance in front of a Notary
Public, Justice of Peace or Commissioner of Oaths
• Obtain the passport after the citizenship confirmation
BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORY · RESIDENCE BY INVESTMENT
Cayman Islands:
The Quiet Road to a British Passport
New fee regulations in May 2026 raised the price of permanence — CI$200,000 on issue — yet the R42 certificate remains the only Caribbean purchase that can end, years later, at a UK passport.
The context
The Cayman Islands do not sell citizenship; they sell time inside a British Overseas Territory whose legal system, tax neutrality and financial-services depth make the waiting worthwhile. The framework sits in the Immigration (Transition) Act and its regulations, administered through Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman (WORC), and 2026 has been its most consequential year in a decade: stamp duty on high-value property rose to 10% in January, the Cayman Protection (Fees) Regulations of 1 May 2026 doubled the R42 issue fee to CI$200,000, the 2025 immigration amendments lengthened the road from residence to Caymanian status to twenty years, and WORC began enforcing annual declarations by permanent-residency holders on pain of fines or revocation.
The direction is unmistakable: Cayman is repricing scarcity, not retreating from it. The R42 annual quota remains 250, and demand — from fund principals, crypto treasuries and family offices already domiciling vehicles in George Town — continues to exceed it.
Programme mechanics
Two instruments dominate. The Residency Certificate for Persons of Independent Means (R41) grants 25 years, renewable, without the right to work: on Grand Cayman it requires CI$1 million (≈US$1.2m) invested, at least CI$500,000 of it in developed real estate, plus either annual external income of CI$120,000 or a CI$400,000 deposit with a locally regulated institution; on Cayman Brac and Little Cayman the thresholds halve. The Certificate of Permanent Residence (R42) requires CI$2 million (≈US$2.4m) in developed residential real estate — unfinanced, in the applicant's own funds, raw land excluded — and grants lifetime status with a physical-presence requirement of a single day per year.
The R42's deeper value is nationality optionality: holders may seek naturalisation as British Overseas Territories Citizens after five years' residence under the British Nationality Act, thereafter registration as British citizens — a genuine UK passport — and, on the long road, Caymanian status itself. A Certificate of Direct Investment (CI$1 million in an employment-generating business, 90 days' annual presence) and a Substantial Business Presence certificate round out the menu for operators rather than rentiers.
PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE — JULY 2026
R41 (25 YEARS) CI$1m / US$1.2m, R42 (PERMANENT), CI$2m / US$2.4m
PRESENCE (R42) : 1 day per year
LONG PATH : BOTC → UK passport
Strategic analysis
Cayman's proposition is unique in the Caribbean: the only programme in which a property purchase can end, years later, at a British passport, inside a jurisdiction with no income, capital gains, corporate, inheritance or property taxes. The 2026 repricing — 10% stamp duty plus the CI$200,000 issue fee adds roughly US$530,000 of friction to a minimum R42 purchase — is a deliberate filter, and the twenty-year road to Caymanian status a statement that belonging is not for sale even where residence is. For the fund-industry clientele the calculation still closes easily: the office, the vehicles and the regulator are already on-island.
Startup & Entrepreneur Route
Cayman's founder door is the Special Economic Zone. A Cayman Enterprise City trade certificate — covering tech, media, maritime and commodities ventures — delivers 100% foreign ownership, zero direct taxation, and a five-year renewable SEZ Employment Certificate (in effect a work-and-residence visa) issued in weeks rather than months, with no local-hiring test at entry and annual costs from roughly US$20,000–30,000 including licence and desk space. Outside the zone, the Certificate of Direct Investment admits principals investing CI$1 million in an employment-generating business with 90 days' annual presence, and the Substantial Business Presence certificate covers senior professionals owning 10% or more of an approved-category firm.
The strategic use-case is precise: fund managers, digital-asset ventures and reinsurance startups placing the operating company where the vehicles already sit — with the R41/R42 residency products available later, once the venture's exit funds them.
INVESTOR CASES — ANONYMISED COMPOSITE PROFILES
The crypto-fund GP relocating from Singapore, 38
He bought a US$3.1 million Seven Mile corridor penthouse for the R42 before the May fee change, absorbing January's 10% stamp duty as, in his words, the last cheap year. His fund already domiciles vehicles in George Town; the certificate lets him govern them from the same postcode, tax-neutral and time-zone-aligned with New York's close. The five-year BOTC clock is the real trade: he is buying, patiently, the option on a British passport for his children — the one asset no exchange lists.
The retired German shipping couple, 61 and 63
They chose the R41 on Cayman Brac, where the out-island thresholds — CI$500,000 invested, half in developed property, against CI$75,000 of external income — fitted a deliberately downsized life above the Bluff. Their planning question was succession: the certificate does not inherit. The property now sits in a STAR trust, with fresh applications contemplated for the next generation, and their annual WORC declaration — the 2026 enforcement novelty — is diarised with the same rigour as a ship's survey.
