Mauritius · Citizenship by investment
Citizenship by Investment (Sovereign Fund contribution)
Closed
Last verified July 2026
Announced in the 2018 Budget Speech — a USD 1m non-refundable contribution to a Mauritius Sovereign Fund for citizenship, and USD 500k for a passport for each dependant. It was never implemented and has since been dropped. Mauritius has no citizenship-by-investment programme and has never had one.
This programme is closed. We keep the page up because agents still
advertise it and clients still ask. Nothing below is available to new applicants.
We list this because a striking number of intermediaries still advertise 'Mauritius citizenship by investment' with slick pricing pages. There is no such programme, there never was, and the only route to a Mauritian passport is naturalisation — which requires renouncing your existing nationality.
Qualifying routes
$1M
Sovereign Fund contribution (never implemented)
announced 2018, never legislated, never opened
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $1M
- Total landed cost
- Not applicable — the programme never existed in operation
- Physical presence
- not applicable
- Permanent residency
- not applicable
- Citizenship
- Mauritian citizenship is available only by descent, registration (marriage) or naturalisation
- Language test
- not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
What can go wrong
- Any firm quoting you a price for Mauritian citizenship by investment is either misinformed or misleading you. Treat it as a disqualifying signal about the adviser.
- The nearest real thing is the ministerial discretion to shorten naturalisation residence to 2 years with USD 500k invested — which still requires two years of actual residence and still triggers renunciation.