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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.

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LinkedInJune 15, 2026

Mauritius taxes capital gains at zero. No wealth tax, no inheritance tax, and it ranks among the most peaceful countries on earth. Almost no European wealth plan ever mentions it. The reputation says small African island. The fiscal reality says something closer to a wealth hub. - 0% capital gains tax. Gains on shares and most capital assets sit outside income tax under the Income Tax Act 1995. Property transfers carry separate duties, and trading-type transactions can be taxed as ordinary income. - No net wealth tax. No inheritance, estate or gift tax. - For resident individuals, foreign income is generally taxed only when it is received in, remitted to, or dealt with in Mauritius. Held offshore, it stays outside the local net. - A top personal income tax rate of 20%, on a tax year running July to June. - Mauritius ranks 18th on the 2026 Global Peace Index, the most peaceful country in Africa. The United Kingdom, by contrast, just fell to 39th. On the jurisdiction index I maintain, Mauritius scores 7.20 out of 10, the same band as the UK and Spain. That mix of zero CGT, a remittance basis and no wealth or succession tax sits closer to the UK non-dom regime Britain scrapped in 2025 than to anything left in Western Europe. The catch the brochures skip. The Finance Act 2025 added a temporary 15% Fair Share Contribution on leviable income above MUR 12 million (roughly USD 255,000 or EUR 220,000) running through the tax year ending June 2028. On income above that line, the marginal rate climbs to 35%. If most of your wealth sits in unrealised gains, does a 0% capital gains base outweigh a surcharge that only bites on income above 255k? Where does the maths flip for you? Sourced from GeoCompass, the jurisdiction intelligence layer behind Lucky Nomads. #internationaltax #wealthplanning #mauritius

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