XJune 15, 2026
A Caribbean passport you can buy from 200,000 USD opens about 150 countries without a prior visa.
Not one of them opens the United States.
No passport you can buy off a price list gives visa-free US access. The closest thing to an exception is not even for sale.
The five Caribbean programs sell on one number, passport reach, roughly 145 to 157 destinations without a prior visa depending on the index, Schengen included. Cheapest entry, single applicant, donation route:
Dominica: 200,000 USD
Antigua and Barbuda: 230,000 USD
Grenada: 235,000 USD
Saint Lucia: 240,000 USD
Saint Kitts and Nevis: 250,000 USD
Every one of them still needs a visa for the US. Vanuatu and Nauru too. The US Visa Waiver Program runs to about 40 countries, and not a single priced investment-citizenship route is on it. And the reach is shrinking. The UK pulled visa-free access for Dominica in 2023 and Saint Lucia in March 2026, both over CBI concerns.
Austria is the closest case, and even it is not a priced product. Austrian citizens enter the US visa-free because Austria is in the Visa Waiver Program, but Austrian citizenship is granted only for exceptional contribution in the special interest of the Republic, case by case. Malta was the other obvious case, until the EU top court struck down its investor-citizenship route in 2025.
There is one side door. Grenada is the only Caribbean CBI with US E-2 treaty access, in force since 1989. A Grenadian citizen can live and run a business in the US on a renewable E-2 visa.
But E-2 is not visa-free tourism and not a green card. It is a working residency tied to a real, active US business. And under the AMIGOS Act of 2022, if the citizenship was acquired through financial investment and you have not previously held E status, US law requires three years of continuous domicile in the treaty country before applying.
So if US access is the real goal, passport reach is the wrong metric. No bought passport delivers it directly. Grenada gets you closest, through a separate visa and real substance.
If your plan needs the US, would you still pay 235k for Grenada and build a real business there, or skip CBI and go straight for a US route?
Data from GeoCompass, the jurisdiction intelligence layer I build at Lucky Nomads.
Antigua and BarbudaAustriaDominicaGrenadaMaltaNauruSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaUnited KingdomUnited StatesVanuatu