Dominica grants citizenship to approved applicants who contribute US$200,000 or more to its Economic Diversification Fund or buy approved real estate, with a mandatory interview, no residency requirement and approvals typically within three to six months. Alpha acts as an introducer working with an agent on the Citizenship by Investment Unit’s authorised list.
Everything below is written as reference material: the official contribution and fee schedule line by line, who qualifies and who is barred, how long it takes, what the passport does and does not give you, and the risks. Figures carry the date we verified them against the Citizenship by Investment Unit. If another programme fits you better, we say so in the alternatives section.
The Commonwealth of Dominica grants citizenship to approved applicants who either contribute to its Economic Diversification Fund (EDF) or buy a unit in a government-approved real-estate project. The EDF contribution is US$200,000 for a single applicant and US$250,000 for a main applicant with up to three dependants, plus US$25,000 for each further dependant under 18 and US$40,000 for each further dependant aged 18 or over. The real-estate route needs a US$200,000 purchase held for at least three years plus government fees from US$75,000. Every applicant pays a US$1,000 processing fee, due-diligence fees of US$7,500 (main applicant) and US$4,000 (each dependant aged 16 or over), a US$1,000 mandatory interview fee for each applicant aged 16 or over, and US$500 per certificate of naturalisation. There is no residency or visit requirement and dual citizenship is permitted. The Citizenship by Investment Unit states that approvals are typically issued within three to six months. A Dominica passport gives visa-free access to the Schengen area but has required a visa for the United Kingdom since July 2023.
Source: Dominica Citizenship by Investment Unit, cbiu.gov.dm (EDF, real-estate and banned-nationality pages); verified 17 September 2026. Alpha Immigration Associates FZC acts as an introducer working with an authorised Dominica agent.
Active. Dominica's programme has run since 1993 and is administered by the Citizenship by Investment Unit (CBIU) in Roseau under the Commonwealth of Dominica Citizenship by Investment Regulations. In 2024 Dominica and the other Eastern Caribbean programmes agreed a common US$200,000 minimum, and a mandatory interview for all applicants aged 16 and over has applied since 2023.
| Economic Diversification Fund (non-refundable) | USD |
|---|---|
| Main applicant alone | 200,000 |
| Main applicant with up to three qualifying dependants | 250,000 |
| Each additional dependant under 18 | 25,000 |
| Each additional dependant aged 18 or over | 40,000 |
| Real-estate route | USD |
|---|---|
| Minimum purchase in an approved project (held 3 years, or 5 years if resold to another citizenship applicant) | 200,000 |
| Government fee, main applicant alone | 75,000 |
| Government fee, main applicant with up to three dependants | 100,000 |
| Government fee, each additional dependant under 18 / aged 18 or over | 25,000 / 40,000 |
| Fees payable on every application (both routes) | USD |
|---|---|
| Processing fee, per application | 1,000 |
| Due diligence, main applicant | 7,500 |
| Due diligence, each dependant aged 16 or over | 4,000 |
| Mandatory interview, each applicant aged 16 or over | 1,000 |
| Certificate of naturalisation, per person | 500 |
| Enhanced due diligence, where the CBIU requires it | quoted by the Unit |
Verified against cbiu.gov.dm on 17 September 2026. Legal translation, attestation, courier and the agent's professional fees are additional and quoted in writing.
200,000 contribution + 1,000 processing + 7,500 due diligence + 1,000 interview + 500 certificate = US$210,000 in government charges, before professional and document costs.
250,000 contribution + 1,000 processing + 7,500 due diligence for the main applicant + 4,000 for the spouse + 2,000 interviews (two adults) + 2,000 certificates = US$266,500 in government charges.
The CBIU publishes a banned-nationalities list. Applications from nationals of Russia and Belarus are not accepted. Nationals of Northern Iraq (the Kurdistan region, including Erbil, Dahuk, Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah and Zakho) are banned. Applications from Yemen have been suspended since January 2024. Nationals of Iran, North Korea and Sudan are refused unless they have not lived in that country for at least ten years, hold no substantial assets there and have conducted no business in or with it, and enhanced due diligence applies. We check nationality and residence history before any agreement is signed.
The CBIU states that most approvals are issued within three to six months, and that many applications complete within three months. The sequence is:
A Dominica passport gives visa-free or visa-on-arrival entry to the Schengen area and to most of the Commonwealth Caribbean, plus destinations such as Singapore and Hong Kong. It does not give visa-free entry to the United Kingdom (visa required since 19 July 2023), the United States or Canada. The European Union has been reviewing visa-free access for all Caribbean investor-citizenship states since 2023; this is the single largest risk to the passport's travel value. Entry rules change; confirm with the destination state before travelling.
Dominica levies no wealth, gift, inheritance or capital-gains tax, and does not tax the foreign income of citizens who are not tax resident there. Citizenship does not by itself change your tax residency or your obligations where you live or hold assets. We do not provide tax advice.
Dominica applies multi-tier due diligence through the CBIU, international due-diligence firms and regional intelligence sharing, and has published lists of blacklisted agents and banned nationalities. Enhanced due diligence, at the applicant's cost, applies to higher-risk profiles. Approval is decided solely by the Government of Dominica and is never guaranteed.
Alpha Immigration Associates FZC (SPC Free Zone, Sharjah, Reg. 4204438.01; office 309 Opal Tower, Business Bay, Dubai) is not a Dominica-authorised agent. We act as an introducer: we pre-screen, structure the family application and manage documents, and the application is filed by an agent on the CBIU's authorised list. Our own government designations (Vanuatu, Nauru, Sao Tome and Principe) are on the accreditations page. Editor: Manpreet Kataria, Managing Director. Page reviewed 17 September 2026.
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Government contribution minimums only. Government processing/due-diligence fees, agent fees and bank charges are additional. Verify against the official_url before relying on any figure. Structured data for all programmes: CBI programme database · JSON.
