Austria – EUR 10 million (business investment)
North Macedonia – EUR 200,000 (donation) or EUR 400,000 (business with job creation)
Cambodia – USD 250,000 (donation) or USD1.5 million (business)
Romania – EUR 1 million (job creation business)
There are a few ways of getting the citizenship of a foreign country.

The most common one is naturalization, and lots of people that got second citizenship got it by naturalization. So how do you get naturalized in a foreign country?

Firstly, you move there, then you live there a certain number of years – how many years you need to live there varies from country to country. It generally goes anywhere from 5-20 years, sometimes less if you’re married to someone who is already a citizen. Certain countries don’t have citizenship by naturalization and you will not get it no matter how long you live there.

So, as you can see this is a lengthy and hard process.

In order to even move to a foreign country, you need to prepare lots of documents and paperwork, and go through lots of tests. Getting citizenship is another level of all that. You need to live in a country for lots of years, and then you might be able to apply. On top of this, you might need to prove good local language skills and knowledge of their history.

The second alternative, as you already know if you follow our site is what we call Citizenship by Investment programs. In most cases, this means that you need to donate money in order to buy a passport quickly. In this case, you will be able to get a passport in a much shorter time- anywhere from 3 months to a year, depending on a country.

You have to be aware that in this type of program you will be spending lots of money or simply giving it away. Even if you go through the property purchase path that property will be highly inflated in price. If they are giving you a passport, can you really blame them for charging that much extra?

In the world of Citizenship by investments, there are around 10 major official programs. Most of those are well known.

Famous EU programs are Cyprus and Malta, they are also the priciest programs in the world and the only official EU passports that you can get this way.
There are a few countries that offer similar things to Citizenship by investment, unofficially.

You will be able to get real citizenship and passport, of course, but these programs are not open to the public and they are not advertised.

In this case, you will qualify on some basis: either by ancestry or by extraordinary talent or skill, or the ability to potentially improve the country.

How does this work?

In lots of countries, there are provisions of law or people in power who can make it happen.

You probably heard of athletes getting citizenship in another country. Lots of countries are open about giving citizenship to sports players, so they can compete and represent that country. This is a nice gap in the system.

There are similar opportunities for scientists, artists, business people that made a big impact in the country, etc.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that it is easy to get it, but it is certainly possible. You can’t simply go and apply on this basis, it usually involves certain connections in the government.

There are some EU countries where it is possible to get citizenship using this gap in the system. If you are interested in learning more about it, please reach out to us.

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