Vanuatu / Development Support Programme / Est. 2017

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 a Pacific passport. Zero personal income tax, by sovereign design.

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Contribution $130,000
Processing 30–60 days
Visa-Free 87
Income Tax 0%
The Read
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You have seen the headlines. “Golden passport.” “Citizenship in thirty days.” “The fastest in the world.” The tabloid framing is half right. The fastest passport is not always the right one. For Bitcoiners, it usually is.

Vanuatu is the only program in our slate that pairs a thirty-to-sixty-day grant with a zero-personal-income-tax jurisdiction, a tax-exempt International Business Company framework since 1993, and direct visa-free reach to Singapore and Hong Kong. The math, not the marketing, is the reason.

Why Vanuatu

Four structural reasons. None of them marketing.

The program sits where it sits in our advisory because of four mechanical facts, not because of velocity in the abstract. Each carries its own weight; together, they make Vanuatu the right answer for a specific reader.

01/Velocity

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.

02/Structure

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.

03/Sovereignty

Hereditary and permanent.

Vanuatu citizenship passes to your children and theirs. Granted under the Citizenship Act, Cap. 112. Commonwealth member. Pacific Islands Forum member. A passport that does not expire, in a jurisdiction that compounds across generations.

04/Bitcoin-Native

Pay in Bitcoin.

BTC, Lightning, and USDT are our payment rails. Credit cards and bank transfers also accepted as needed. Every fee broken down in sats alongside USD. On-chain source-of-funds documentation is the starting point, not a red flag.

Asia-Pacific Mobility

The Pacific's Gateway.

Eighty-seven destinations across the Asia-Pacific corridor. 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.

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The Math. Shown.

No 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.

Government contribution DSP, single applicant. Direct to the Republic of Vanuatu.
$130,000
21 CBI advisory Five percent of the government contribution. Flat.
$6,500
Due diligence & VFIU screening VFIU, Interpol, and VCC checks. Flat per file.
$5,000
Birth registration & national ID Civil-registration filings under the Citizenship Act. Per applicant.
$2,500
Passport enrolment Biometric capture and document issuance. Per applicant.
$1,000
All-in, single applicant
$145,000
Three Beats
Thirty days. · Zero tax. · One passport.

A clean file, a single contribution, and a passport that follows the children. No residency. No interview. No language test.

The Quiet Bank of the Pacific

Vanuatu's IBC framework, since 1993.

Tax-exempt holding entities. Minimal reporting. No public director or shareholder registry. Supervised by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission. For Bitcoiners who pair self-custody with an offshore operating vehicle, the IBC is the structural primitive.

A Single Advisor. A Direct Line.

No platform dashboard. No junior associate. No chatbot.

21 CBI is one advisor with lived experience across four continents. US Air Force veteran. LL.M., European and Comparative Law, University of Malta. Over a decade at the United States Department of Homeland Security on immigration policy. Stacking sats since 2020. Currently navigating Argentine citizenship from Buenos Aires.

You will not be routed through a junior associate. The first call is the file owner. Encrypted channels for everything sensitive, agreed on the call. The math, the timeline, the trade-offs, on one screen.

The Slate

Vanuatu is one of six. Five other answers.

cbi.vu sits inside the 21 CBI advisory slate. If Vanuatu is not the right answer for your file (US-citizen budget profile, EU access need, Non-CRS posture, Bitcoin-native settlement), there are five other programs the firm advises on. Each fits a different reader.

Bookings on cbi.vu go to the same advisor. If Vanuatu turns out not to be the right answer in the strategy call, we name the right program from the slate above and route you accordingly. No upsell pressure; the slate is the slate.

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