Terms and Disclaimer

What this site is

This guide to Vanuatu citizenship by investment is published privately. It is not a government website, and it has no link to the Government of Vanuatu, to its Financial Intelligence Unit, or to the Citizenship Office and Commission. If an official document and one of our pages disagree, rely on the official document.

Information, not advice

Nothing on these pages amounts to legal, tax or immigration advice tailored to you, and reading them forms no retainer or lawyer–client relationship. Proper advice depends on facts a web page cannot see: which nationality you hold, where you have lived, and how your own country treats a citizen who takes on a second nationality. Put those questions to a qualified adviser in your country of residence.

Scope

Only one route is covered here: citizenship through the Development Support Programme, which requires neither residence nor any visit to Vanuatu. Residence visas, living or working in the country and setting up companies there fall outside the site's scope, and no page should be taken as guidance on them.

Figures change, and some are unpublished

Contributions and fees are fixed by regulation, and a further regulation can change them. Each destination sets and revises its own entry rules without notice. When published sources disagree, as they most obviously do over the Capital Investment Immigration Plan, we explain how the arrangement is structured and leave the figures out instead of presenting one version as settled.

What nobody can promise

The Vanuatu Citizenship Commission decides on citizenship and exercises discretion in doing so. As there is no published processing standard, nobody, whether a website, an agent or an adviser, can promise approval or give a date for a decision. The due diligence fee covers the examination itself, regardless of its result.

Applications go through a designated agent

The programme does not allow applicants to file for themselves. Where this site describes the process, it is explaining that route, not suggesting how to evade it, escape due diligence or keep material facts from the Commission.

Links and liability

Links leading off this site go to government sources, legislation and news reports. We do not run those sites, and linking to them implies no endorsement. We fix mistakes once we spot them, but we are not liable for decisions based on a general page instead of advice on your particular facts.