A Sign of the Times: “Want To Escape From America? 12 Countries Where You Can Buy Citizenship (And A Second Passport”

Laura Begley Bloom for Forbes (“Want To Escape From America? 12 Countries Where You Can Buy Citizenship (And A Second Passport”) reports that “with the coronavirus pandemic restricting travel for U.S. citizens and the power of the US passport on the decline, it’s no surprise that many Americans are investigating how they can buy a second passport, whether it’s to seek shelter in another country or just to be able to travel more freely.”

Bloom identifies “some of the best places where you can buy citizenship . . . .”   Here are the 12 nations on her list:

1.  St. Kitts & Nevis

2.  St. Lucia

3.  Antigua and Barbuda

4.  Dominica

5.  Grenada

6.  Portugal

7.  Turkey

8.  Malta

9.  Cyprus

10.  Austria

11.  New Zealand

12.  Vanuatu, a “country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, consisting of a chain of 13 principal and many smaller islands located about 500 miles (800 km) west of Fiji and 1,100 miles (1,770 km) east of Australia.”  

Click the link above to read details on the rules for securing citizenship in each of these nations.

KJ