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Dominica Citizenship Investment: Real Estate

Dominica Citizenship
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At a glance

Dominica's real-estate option requires a qualifying USD $200,000 approved-project purchase, Government fees from USD $75,000, full additional costs, screening, approval, and compliance with the three- and five-year resale rules.

Minimum property value
USD $200,000 in a Government-approved project
Government fee
From USD $75,000, plus other costs
Holding rule
3 years; 5 before reuse by another CBI applicant
Decision
Discretionary after due diligence and interviews
Minimum investment
USD $200,000 plus government fees from USD $75,000
Investment choices
Government-approved real estate

Summary

Dominica's real-estate citizenship option requires at least USD $200,000 in a unit within a Government-approved project. It is not a route through any property in Dominica. The exact project and unit must qualify under the Citizenship by Investment Programme, and the application must be handled by a Government-authorized agent.

The property price is only one component. The current Government fee is USD $75,000 for one main applicant or USD $100,000 for a main applicant and up to three qualifying dependents, followed by dependent increments for a larger family. Processing, due-diligence, interview, certificate, passport, agent, legal, escrow, transfer, title, translation, and document costs also apply.

The property generally cannot be resold during the first three years after citizenship is granted. If a future purchaser wants to use that same property for another citizenship-by-investment application, at least five years must have elapsed from the original citizenship grant. This distinction matters: three years may permit an ordinary resale, but it does not make the asset immediately reusable in another CBI case.

Pathway fit check

Eligibility

The main applicant must be at least 18 and satisfy the current applicant requirements, including identity, criminal-background, medical, financial, source-of-funds, and disclosure checks. Every dependent must meet the current legal definition, provide the necessary family and dependency evidence, and pass the applicable review.

The proposed asset must meet all program requirements:

An ordinary private home, land parcel, business property, or unapproved development does not qualify simply because it costs USD $200,000. Check the current official list and ask for written confirmation concerning the exact unit. Project approval can change, and an approval of the development does not necessarily mean every product marketed by the developer has the same legal or commercial terms.

Current Government fees after approval are:

The CBIU also publishes a processing fee per application, due-diligence fees for the main applicant and dependents aged 16 or older, a fee for each mandatory interview, and a certificate-of-naturalization fee per person. Professional and property transaction costs are separate. A USD $200,000 budget is therefore insufficient for even a single applicant.

Source of wealth and source of funds must be established. The CBIU and its partners need to understand how the applicant accumulated wealth and where the exact investment and fee money came from. Employment, business, tax, sale, inheritance, gift, bank, or other evidence must match the transfer trail. A loan, sponsor, refund arrangement, or third-party payment must be disclosed and must fit the current rules.

Every applicant undergoes due diligence, and each applicant aged 16 or older must complete the mandatory interview. Criminal, security, sanctions, nationality-related enhanced review, financial, reputational, medical, or disclosure issues can lead to further investigation, delay, or refusal. Buying or reserving property does not overcome an applicant problem.

The statutory resale rules must be acceptable from the start. The applicant must be able to hold the property for at least three years. A buyer who wants to reuse it for CBI cannot do so until the five-year point. Any promised earlier program resale, concealed rebate, circular funding, or arrangement that leaves the applicant without the required real investment needs independent legal review.

Policy watch 1 development we’re tracking
EU visa-free travel is under policy scrutiny
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EU visa-free travel is under policy scrutiny

Current official stage: Annual EU visa-suspension monitoring; no suspension decision announced

Dominica citizenship still carries the current EU short-stay treatment, but the Commission is monitoring its investor-citizenship program under a mechanism that can suspend visa-free access. No suspension has been announced.

Timing: The revised EU mechanism has applied since 31 December 2025, but it does not automatically suspend travel. The Commission has not announced a suspension for Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis or Saint Lucia. It continues annual monitoring and country engagement.

Current pathway rules still apply.

Last checked European Commission — Eighth Visa Suspension Mechanism ReportEuropean Union — Regulation 2025/2441 revising the visa-suspension mechanismCouncil of the EU — explanation of the revised suspension mechanismEuropean Commission — Eastern Caribbean follow-up and recommendations
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What This Route Allows

After approval in principle, completion of the qualifying purchase and Government payments, and final confirmation, the program issues the citizenship evidence. The person can then complete the separate passport application. Citizenship permits living and working in Dominica without a foreign national's residence or work permission.

Qualifying dependents can be included in the same case when they meet the program definition, provide the required relationship or dependency evidence, and pass screening. The single USD $200,000 project minimum can cover the qualifying property component for a family, but Government and other charges increase with family composition.

The asset can also provide the ownership, use, rental, or eventual resale rights written into its project documents and recognized by property law. Those commercial rights are separate from citizenship. After the required period, an ordinary or CBI-linked resale may be legally possible, but only under the statute, contract, project rules, and market conditions then in force.

What This Route Is Not

This is not citizenship through any Dominican property. It is limited to the CBIU's approved-project route. Nor is a reservation agreement or escrow transfer itself citizenship; the CBIU must approve the applicant and confirm completion.

It is not a Government guarantee of title, completion, construction quality, hotel operations, rental income, capital appreciation, liquidity, buyback, or resale price. Government approval for immigration purposes is not a substitute for independent property, financial, tax, and commercial diligence.

The three-year rule is not a promise that a CBI buyer will be available then. A property cannot support another CBI application until five years have elapsed, and an ordinary-market buyer may value the asset differently. A developer's forecast or repurchase promise is only as strong as the contract, counterparty, law, and finances behind it.

The route is not available at a secret statutory discount or through an undisclosed repayment. It does not automatically establish tax residence, eliminate taxes elsewhere, guarantee banking, or secure admission to another country. Travel benefits and tax results must be checked separately.

Next Steps

  1. Read the current real-estate page, approved-project list, 2024 regulations, fee schedule, and latest notices before choosing a development.
  2. Select an agent from the official authorized-agent list. Identify any relationship or commission arrangement among the agent, promoter, developer, and seller.
  3. Obtain written confirmation that the exact project and exact unit qualify. Review the project's approval, developer entity, title, construction and financing status, escrow structure, and any decertification or compliance notices.
  4. Request an all-in family calculation covering the property, Government fee, dependent increments, processing, due diligence, interviews, certificates, passports, agents, legal work, title, transfer, escrow, taxes, management, and documents.
  5. Commission independent legal and commercial diligence. Review ownership, encumbrances, completion protections, operator terms, personal-use limits, rental pooling, annual charges, exit restrictions, conflicts, and insolvency risk.
  6. Build the complete source-of-wealth and source-of-funds file. Resolve unexplained deposits, loans, gifts, third-party transfers, or promised refunds before filing.
  7. Complete the applicant pre-screening, civil and dependency records, medical and police materials, translations, and legalizations.
  8. File through the authorized agent, attend mandatory interviews, and respond fully to follow-up checks. Complete the purchase and Government payments only in the official sequence after approval in principle.
  9. Preserve the citizenship file and property compliance records. Do not sell, assign, refinance, or restructure the interest during the protected period without advice on both the three-year resale and five-year CBI-reuse rules.
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