Vanuatu says yes to two passports. Your home country has the deciding vote.

Here is the part the marketing leaves out. Whether you can actually hold two passports has very little to do with Vanuatu and almost everything to do with the country you already belong to. Some countries welcome dual nationality and you keep both without a second thought. Others permit it but attach strings. And a few do not recognize it at all, which means acquiring a foreign nationality can put your original one at risk.

So the honest sequence is the reverse of what most buyers assume. Before you weigh Vanuatu's merits, confirm your own country's rule, because that is the constraint that binds. Below are the notable cases, written as general information rather than advice. None of it replaces a qualified advisor who knows your specific nationality and circumstances, and where the stakes are high you should get that advice before you file anything. If your question is broader than dual nationality, the full Vanuatu citizenship FAQ covers cost, payment, timeline, and the rest.

This is the case to weigh most carefully, and we want Chinese readers to read it slowly. China does not recognize dual nationality. Under its Nationality Law, a Chinese national who has settled abroad and voluntarily acquires a foreign nationality may be treated as having automatically lost Chinese nationality. Vanuatu itself raises no barrier; the consequence sits entirely on the Chinese side, and it is not theoretical.

What that means in practice depends on facts cbi.vu is not positioned to assess: your residence, how the law is applied to your situation, and what you intend. We are not Chinese-law advisors and we will not pretend the issue away to win a file. If you hold Chinese nationality and are considering Vanuatu citizenship, get qualified legal advice on your specific circumstances first, and weigh it honestly before you take a step you cannot easily reverse. This is general information, not legal advice.

The United States is the interesting one, because the citizenship answer and the tax answer pull in opposite directions. The US permits dual citizenship: an American can hold a Vanuatu passport freely and lose nothing by doing so. But the US taxes its citizens on their worldwide income regardless of how many other passports they hold or where they live, and a second citizenship does not change that one cent.

The only way out of US worldwide taxation is formal renunciation of US citizenship, a deliberate legal act with its own process and, for some, an exit-tax regime on the way out. A second passport is usually the precondition for that step, since you do not want to be left stateless, but it is never a substitute for the act itself. If a formal exit from the US tax net is your goal, our sister service exit.ly handles renunciation as its specialty. This is general information, not tax or legal advice; confirm your position with a qualified advisor.

One more thing worth saying plainly, because it matters to anyone hoping a second passport is a fresh identity. Since June 2022, you cannot change your name after a Vanuatu citizenship is granted; the passport must match your documents of record. The only exception is where you provide evidence of having lawfully renounced a prior nationality. Vanuatu is a genuine second citizenship that sits alongside your first, not a clean break from it, and that is true of every legitimate program. If a new name and a severed past are what you are after, the honest answer is that Vanuatu is not that tool.