Grenada Citizenship by Investment Cost Guide

Key takeaways

Grenada's National Transformation Fund contribution is a flat, non-refundable USD 235,000 whether the application covers one person, a couple or a family of four. It only moves once the family exceeds four.

Everything else is per person. Application fees are USD 1,500 each, due diligence USD 5,000 for adults, processing USD 1,500 for anyone aged 17 and over and USD 500 below that, and interviews USD 1,000 for each person aged 17 and over.

That produces government totals of USD 244,000 for a single applicant, USD 253,000 for a couple and USD 257,000 for a family of four with two children under 16. Going from one applicant to four adds USD 13,000, not another contribution.

The approved-project route costs about USD 85,000 more. A USD 270,000 share plus the USD 50,000 government fee reaches roughly USD 329,000 all-in for a single applicant, against USD 244,000 on the fund.

The minimum moved to USD 235,000 after the five Eastern Caribbean programmes agreed a region-wide USD 200,000 floor on 23 September 2025. Grenada remains the only Caribbean citizenship-by-investment country whose nationals can qualify for the US E-2 treaty investor visa.

The contribution is flat to four people; the fees are not

The structure of Grenada's National Transformation Fund route is unusual, and it is the reason the programme prices well for families and badly for a single applicant. The Investment Migration Agency (IMA) Grenada publishes a required contribution of USD 235,000 for an individual applicant, USD 235,000 for a main applicant and spouse, and USD 235,000 for a family of four. The contribution does not move until the family exceeds four.

Everything else does move, because the remaining charges are per person. This is the IMA's published NTF schedule:

One line in that table is genuinely ambiguous on the government's own website, and it is worth flagging rather than smoothing over. The over-four column reads "USD 25,000/50,000 per additional dependant after the third" without saying which of the two amounts applies to whom. The published schedule does not resolve it. If your application runs to five or more people, get the figure in writing from your Authorised Local Agent before you budget.

Worked totals: single applicant, couple, family of four

These add the IMA's published line items with no estimates layered on top. They assume a standard application with no enhanced due diligence, and for the family of four they assume two children aged under 16, which is the case where the child due diligence fee is nil.

The shape of that result is the single most useful thing to know about Grenada. Going from one applicant to four adds USD 13,000, not another contribution, because the contribution is flat and only the per-head fees scale. That is why families shortlist Grenada and single applicants often do not.

Not in the table, because Grenada does not publish it: the agent's own fee. Applications cannot be submitted directly to the Citizenship by Investment Committee. You must go through an Authorised International Marketing Agent, who liaises with an Authorised Local Agent, and neither fee appears on any government schedule. Ask for it as a separate line, in writing, before you sign.

The real estate route, and what the government fee buys

The approved-project route replaces the contribution with a property purchase and adds a government fee on top. The IMA publishes USD 350,000 for a full unit or USD 270,000 for a share in an approved project, plus a government fee of USD 50,000, with the same application, due diligence, processing and interview charges as the fund route.

On a share at USD 270,000 a single applicant therefore reaches about USD 329,000 all-in, against USD 244,000 on the fund. The gap is the price of holding a recoverable asset rather than making a donation, and it is only worth paying if you have satisfied yourself that the asset is genuinely resaleable at something near what you paid. That is a property question, not an immigration question, and it is where most of the disappointment in Caribbean real estate CBI has historically come from.

Why the number moved, and where the official page went

Grenada's minimum used to be USD 150,000 for a single applicant. It moved because the five Eastern Caribbean programmes agreed to stop undercutting each other. On 23 September 2025 the Heads of Government of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia announced a region-wide minimum investment threshold of USD 200,000 and committed to establishing the Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority. Grenada sits above that floor at USD 235,000.

Anyone checking this against the government themselves should know that the older Citizenship by Investment Committee site at cbi.gov.gd is currently broken: its homepage loads, but every internal page, including the schedule of fees, returns a 404, and the site's own sitemap points at those dead URLs. The live official source is the Investment Migration Agency at imagrenada.gd, which publishes the fee tables reproduced above. If you find a Grenada fee schedule in a search result that will not open, that is why.

Compare against the alternatives before deciding: Dominica sits at the USD 200,000 floor with a lower headline but government fees on the real estate route that Grenada does not charge, and St Lucia, Antigua and St Kitts each price families differently. Our Caribbean comparison puts them side by side.

The E-2 question, which is the actual reason most people are here

Grenada is the only Caribbean citizenship-by-investment country whose nationals can qualify for the US E-2 treaty investor visa, and for many applicants that, rather than the passport index, is the entire point. The basis is a bilateral investment treaty between Grenada and the United States, signed on 2 May 1986 and in force from 3 March 1989.

Two cautions, both of which cost people money. First, the treaty makes you eligible to apply; it does not approve you. E-2 is a separate application to the US Department of State with its own investment substantiality test, its own marginality test, and its own refusal rate. Second, an E-2 applicant is normally expected to have held the treaty nationality for a period before applying, and consular practice on this is not something a CBI agent controls. Get US immigration advice before you commit to Grenada for E-2 reasons, not after. Our Grenada E-2 visa page covers the requirement in more detail.

The caveats that actually bite

The contribution is non-refundable and, in practice, so is most of what you pay before it. Due diligence and processing fees pay for work the government performs whether it approves you or not. Budget on the assumption that a refusal costs you the fees and returns the contribution, and ask your agent to confirm the sequencing in writing: under the published process the contribution is paid only after the Committee issues an approval in principle, which is the protection that matters most.

The interview is mandatory and is charged per head, including a non-applicant spouse and a non-applicant sponsor. That is easy to miss: someone who is not becoming a citizen can still generate a USD 1,000 line on your invoice.

Finally, treat every figure here as a snapshot. Grenada raised its minimum by more than 50% inside two years, the region has just created a common regulator, and fee schedules in this sector change faster than the pages that describe them. Confirm current amounts with the IMA before any money moves.

What to get in writing before you pay anyone

Three of the numbers on this page are either unpublished or ambiguous on the government's own website, and each of them is worth resolving in writing before money moves.

The first is the over-four column of the fee schedule. It reads "USD 25,000/50,000 per additional dependant after the third" without stating which of the two amounts applies to whom, and the published schedule does not resolve it. If your application runs to five or more people, the difference between those two figures compounds with every additional dependant. Ask your Authorised Local Agent to quote the exact amount for your specific family composition, in writing, and ask which line of the schedule it comes from.

The second is the agent's own fee, which appears on no government schedule at all. Applications cannot be submitted directly to the Citizenship by Investment Committee: you go through an Authorised International Marketing Agent, who liaises with an Authorised Local Agent, and both of them charge. A quote that presents one blended figure is hiding a number you are entitled to see. Ask for the professional fee as a separate line, and ask whether it is charged per application or per person.

The third applies only on the real estate route, and it is not an immigration question at all. The USD 50,000 government fee and the roughly USD 85,000 premium over the fund route are only worth paying if the underlying asset is genuinely resaleable at something near what you paid for it. That is a property question, and it is where most of the historical disappointment in Caribbean real estate citizenship programmes has come from. Ask for evidence of completed resales in the specific project, not for projected yields.