Nauru · Citizenship by investment
Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Programme
Established under the Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Act 2024; first applications from 1 January 2025. PRICING IS GENUINELY AMBIGUOUS AND THE GOVERNMENT'S OWN SITE CONTRADICTS ITSELF. The official contribution page shows USD 90,000 for the principal applicant with a USD 25,000 discount stated to run until 31 December 2026, while the official news page states the same discount applies only to applications filed before 30 June 2026 — a date now past. The undiscounted contribution is therefore USD 115,000; Henley separately quotes a USD 120,000 standard and USD 95,000 promotional rate. The launch price reported in March 2025 was USD 105,000. Confirm the current figure with the Programme Office before relying on any number here.
Nauru raised money faster than any new CBI in memory and lost the United Kingdom faster too. On 9 December 2025 the UK imposed visit visa and Direct Airside Transit Visa requirements on Nauru nationals and removed ETA eligibility, with the Migration Minister describing citizenship-by-investment as 'inherently high-risk' and granting 'a new identity with minimal ties to the issuing jurisdiction.' That is the same reasoning, from the same playbook, that ended Vanuatu's EU access. The programme is eleven months old and one major partner down.
Qualifying routes
the 'Iruwa Initiative' rate under a Cabinet resolution of 29 January 2026; the official contribution page says it runs to 31 December 2026, the official news page says applications must be filed before 30 June 2026
the rate absent the USD 25,000 discount; Henley publishes USD 120,000 instead — the discrepancy is unresolved
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $90k
- Total landed cost
- At the discounted rate, roughly USD 102,700 all-in for a single applicant: USD 90,000 contribution, USD 5,000 application fee, USD 6,000 due diligence, USD 1,200 bank due diligence and transaction charge, USD 500 passport fee. Dependants aged 16+ add USD 2,000 contribution, USD 2,000 application and USD 3,000 due diligence each; siblings add USD 15,000 contribution each. At the standard USD 115,000 contribution the single-applicant total is roughly USD 127,700.
- Timeline
- 3–5 months — the Programme Office states three to four months from submission to approval
- Physical presence
- None — no residence, visit or minimum stay requirement of any kind
- Family
- spousedependent childrenparentssiblings (at USD 15,000 contribution each)
- Permanent residency
- not applicable — citizenship is granted directly
- Citizenship
- immediate — citizenship is the product
- Language test
- none
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- 18 or overclean criminal recordComprehensive Due Diligence conducted by the governmentevidence of source of fundscontribution paid only after due diligence clearanceno residence or visit requirement
- THE UK IS GONE. Since 9 December 2025 Nauru nationals need a visit visa for the UK and are no longer ETA-eligible. Anyone quoting UK or Ireland access for this passport is quoting a pre-December-2025 list.
- There is NO Schengen access and never was. Nauru sits in Annex I of the EU visa regulation. Material claiming European mobility for this passport is simply wrong.
- The EU's visa suspension mechanism, finalised by member states in June 2025, explicitly targets CBI schemes without genuine ties between investor and state. Nauru fits that description precisely and has no waiver left to lose in the EU — but the mechanism is a live threat to the remaining destinations.
- Its own government cannot state the price consistently. The official contribution page and the official news page give different discount deadlines. That is a governance signal, not a clerical one.
- The price has moved repeatedly in eighteen months — USD 105,000 at launch, now a USD 115,000–120,000 standard with a USD 90,000–95,000 promotion under rolling deadlines. Discount-window urgency is a sales tactic; treat the deadlines sceptically and the price as unstable.
- The climate-resilience framing is marketing. The revenue funds Nauru's budget, and Nauru's fiscal history — phosphate collapse, offshore detention rents, the 1990s banking episode — is not a record of durable programme administration.
- Nauru is one of the smallest and least diplomatically weighty states in the world. It has minimal capacity to defend the passport's standing when a partner decides to withdraw access.
- Banking on a Nauru CBI passport is difficult. Newness plus the UK's stated position means enhanced due diligence at best.
- 85 visa-free destinations and falling. This document is worth strictly less than it was at launch, and the trend is one-directional.