Vanuatu: A Passport for the Pacific.
Curated for Bitcoiners.
The fastest citizenship by investment in the world. One direct contribution. Thirty to sixty days from a clean file to citizenship grant and passport issuance. Zero personal income tax, by sovereign design.
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You have seen the headlines. “Golden passport.” “Citizenship in thirty days.” “The fastest route.” The tabloid framing is half right. The speed is real. What the headlines leave out is the trade-off, and we put it on the page: Schengen is gone, CRS applies, and one biometric visit is mandatory. For Bitcoiners, the speed usually wins.
Vanuatu pairs a thirty-to-sixty-day citizenship grant with a zero-personal-income-tax jurisdiction, an International Business Company framework in force since 1993, and access to Singapore and Hong Kong within an 87-destination map. The math, not the marketing, is the reason.
The right reader, named.
Vanuatu is the right tool for a specific reader and the wrong one for others. Better to know which you are now than after a call.
This is for you if
- You hold Bitcoin, or other lawful capital, and can fund a file from $145,000 all-in.
- You want a fast, real second citizenship: thirty to sixty days from a clean file.
- Your source of funds can be documented, even if the on-chain history is complicated.
- A zero-personal-income-tax base and Asia-Pacific mobility fit the life you are building.
- You would rather work directly with one advisor than a platform or a call center.
This is not for you if
- You need Schengen or EU visa-free access. Vanuatu lost it in December 2024.
- You expect guaranteed approval. The VFIU screens every file and can say no.
- Your funds cannot be explained or documented. We will not route around that.
- You are shopping on price alone. Vanuatu is not the cheapest program, and we will not pretend it is.
- You want anonymity from due diligence. That is not what this is.
Four structural reasons. None of them marketing.
Vanuatu earns the argument on four mechanical facts, not on velocity in the abstract. Each carries its own weight; together, they make Vanuatu the right answer for a specific reader.
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01Velocity
Thirty to sixty days.
Government processing from a complete file. Financial Intelligence Unit due diligence reports within approximately one week. No residency. No language test. No annual cap. Faster than any program on the planet, and faster by structure, not by exception.
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02Structure
Zero personal income tax.
Zero capital gains. Zero inheritance. Zero corporate income tax. The only material tax is a 15% VAT on local consumption. The International Business Company framework has been in force since 1993; it pairs natively with self-custodied Bitcoin holdings.
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03Sovereignty
Hereditary and permanent.
Vanuatu citizenship passes to your children and theirs. Granted under the Citizenship Act, Cap. 112. Commonwealth member. Pacific Islands Forum member. Citizenship is permanent and hereditary; the passport renews every ten years.
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04Bitcoin-Native
Bitcoin-native settlement.
The whole file settles in BTC, Lightning, or USDT through BitSettle after compliance, government contribution and professional fees alike. Credit cards and bank transfers accepted as needed. cbi.vu completes the statutory payments with the Vanuatu authorities on your behalf. On-chain source-of-funds documentation is the starting point, not a red flag. We never ask for your private keys or seed phrase.
Straight to the specifics.
The questions buyers actually arrive with, each on its own page. No scrolling to the footer to find them.
The Vanuatu passport
Cost, timeline, visa-free countries, and the CBI rules, in one place.
CostWhat it really costs
Every fee to the line, single applicant through family of four.
ProgramVanuatu CBI, in full
DSP and CIIP: the two routes, and which one fits your file.
MobilityThe Schengen question
What changed in December 2024, and what 87 destinations still cover.
MethodSource of funds
How a Bitcoin position becomes a file the FIU can clear.
BitcoinCBI for Bitcoiners
The unique angle: an on-chain history as the clean starting point.
The Pacific’s Gateway.
Eighty-seven destinations across the Asia-Pacific corridor, approximately #57 on the global passport ranking. Singapore. Hong Kong. Malaysia. The Pacific Islands Forum bloc. Schengen visa-free access was permanently revoked in December 2024; the United Kingdom now requires a Standard Visitor visa. What remains is direct, fast, structural reach to the financial capitals of Asia.
The Mobility Picture Interactive MapNo hidden fees. Five percent. Flat.
Most CBI firms charge fifteen to twenty-five percent of total cost with fees buried in fine print. We charge five percent of the government contribution. The remaining math sits on this page.
A clean file, a single contribution, and citizenship that follows the children. No residency. No interview. No language test.
Vanuatu’s IBC framework, since 1993.
Tax-exempt holding entities, supervised by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission. For Bitcoiners who pair self-custody with an offshore operating vehicle, the IBC is a structural primitive. Privacy is not secrecy; tax, reporting, and banking obligations still need country-specific review.
No platform dashboard. No junior associate. No chatbot.
21 CBI is one advisor with lived experience across four continents. US Air Force veteran. Licensed agent of The Bitcoin Office; over a decade at the US Department of Homeland Security on immigration policy; University of Malta LL.M. Stacking sats since 2020. Currently navigating Argentine citizenship from Buenos Aires.
You will not be routed through a junior associate. The first call is with Adam. Encrypted channels for everything sensitive, agreed on the call. The math, the timeline, the trade-offs, on one screen. More about the advisor.
Six refusals.
The unsaid version is where most citizenship sites lose a skeptical reader. So the lines we hold, stated plainly.
Never your keys.
We never ask for a private key or seed phrase. Wallet control is shown with signed messages and records, never the keys themselves.
No Schengen promise.
The European Union revoked Vanuatu’s visa-free access in December 2024, and the United Kingdom now requires a visa. We say so on every page.
No guaranteed approval.
The Financial Intelligence Unit screens every file. The grant belongs to the Republic of Vanuatu, not to us.
Not the government.
cbi.vu is a private advisory, not the Government of Vanuatu or an official portal. Vanuatu filings proceed through licensed in-country agents, not cbi.vu itself; we prepare the file, the Republic decides it.
No hidden fees.
Five percent of the government contribution, and every other line at cost. No backend markup, no surprise invoice.
No unexplained funds.
A documented source of funds is the starting point, not an obstacle we route around. If a file cannot be cleaned, we say no.
Read the brief before you book.
Second Citizenship for Bitcoiners: a Vanuatu framework for sovereignty. The math shown to the line, the on-chain source-of-funds playbook, the process, and the honest trade-offs. The document a skeptical Bitcoiner would actually want to read.
Put your file on the table.
A confidential strategy session with Adam. The first call is a $475 engagement via BitSettle (BTC or USDT) or $500 via Stripe; whichever you pay is credited in full toward the advisory if you retain within 90 days, separate from the $5,000 VFIU line. No obligation to proceed. Just the math, the timeline, and a candid read of whether Vanuatu fits your file. The Vanuatu Brief stays free.
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