The people you do everything for are part of it
Imagine sitting at the table with your family. In front of you lie the new passports.
Each one means extra options. For travel. For plans for the future. For a life that does not rest solely on the decisions of a single state.
Who you may include in your application depends on the programme:
- Spouse: in every programme.
- Children: under 18 everywhere; older children in education or financially dependent up to 25 (St Kitts and Nevis, Vanuatu) or up to 30 (Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe).
- Parents and grandparents: in St Kitts and Nevis from 55, in Antigua and Barbuda and St Lucia over 55, in Dominica over 65, in Vanuatu over 50, in Grenada and São Tomé and Príncipe with no published age limit, in Jordan if you support them.
- Siblings: unmarried in Antigua and Barbuda; 18 or over, unmarried and without children in Grenada; under 18 in St Lucia.
When you make this decision, you think of the people who matter most to you. The right programme does too.
One decision for you. A legacy for your family.
When you acquire a second citizenship, you want to bring along the people who make up your life.
The good news: some programmes have a fixed family amount.
St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, St Lucia and Dominica include up to four people. In Antigua and Barbuda, one amount applies per application, and for families of six or more there is the UWI Fund at USD 260,000.
Beyond that, each person adds a surcharge.
Vanuatu scales by family size.
In Türkiye, Jordan and Cambodia, the investment covers the whole immediate family.
You invest once, in a decision that will matter to your whole family for life.
For the people who will only join tomorrow
Life does not stand still.
Another child is born. A new marriage begins. Your family grows.
That is why what happens after your own naturalisation matters.
In many programmes, children born after naturalisation or a later spouse can be added afterwards.
Antigua and Barbuda charges USD 10,000 for a child up to 5 years old, São Tomé and Príncipe USD 500 for a newborn up to one year.
Cambodia lets minor children who were not included follow later.
Your family keeps evolving. Planning your second citizenship takes its future into account too.
One day your children will understand what you gave them
Today they may still be small.
They go to school. They dream of their first adventure of their own. They do not yet know where they will one day want to live, study or work.
And that is exactly where the value of your decision lies.
Another citizenship gives your children extra options for study, work and travel, depending on the rights the country grants its citizens.
Whether they keep that citizenship is their own decision as adults, within the rules of their other citizenships.
You make a decision today. With it, your children gain an extra choice for their own future.
Because the finest thing you can leave your children is the freedom to choose their own path.