Twelve programs, one honest answer per country: how does crypto actually move today?
Verified via live research, September 2026 — see each page for full citations. Not legal or immigration advice; see our Terms & Disclaimer.
El Salvador — Freedom Passport
The only CBI program in the world where the qualifying contribution must be paid in Bitcoin or USDT — no fiat conversion step at all.
Read the full page →Vanuatu — DSP / CIIP
Suspended for a regulatory overhaul in 2025–2026 and stripped of EU Schengen visa-free access — reopened under materially stricter due diligence.
Read the full page →Antigua & Barbuda — CIP
Minimum contribution more than doubled in August 2024, from $100,000 to $230,000, as Caribbean programs harmonized around a higher regional floor.
Read the full page →Dominica — CBI
Mandatory applicant interviews and a new financial intelligence unit have tightened due diligence considerably since 2024.
Read the full page →Saint Lucia — CBI
Its most recent annual report showed record program revenue even as the UK imposed a new visa requirement on Saint Lucian passport holders in March 2026.
Read the full page →St Kitts & Nevis — CBI
The Caribbean's original CBI program (est. 1984), now requiring biometric capture and operating under a new regional due-diligence authority.
Read the full page →Grenada — CBI
The only Caribbean CBI passport with a path to the US E-2 Investor Visa — after a 3-year domicile requirement.
Read the full page →Portugal — Golden Visa
Direct crypto contributions are not accepted at all — only regulated Portuguese funds with partial digital-asset exposure qualify.
Read the full page →Malta — MEIN (closed)
The EU's top court ruled against investment-based citizenship in April 2025; Malta abolished its program days later and replaced it with an unpriced "citizenship by merit" route.
Read the full page →Turkey — Citizenship by Real Estate
One of the largest CBI programs by volume, and explicit about digital assets: crypto must be converted to fiat through a licensed exchange first — a direct crypto payment to a developer is legally void for citizenship purposes.
Read the full page →Nauru — Economic & Climate Resilience Citizenship
Relaunched in late 2024 to fund climate-adaptation projects — currently the lowest headline price in our directory, and unusually explicit about accepting documented crypto wealth.
Read the full page →Egypt — Citizenship by Investment
The most restrictive program in our directory: Egyptian banks are barred from facilitating any crypto-related transaction, so there is no route — direct, agent, or indirect — for crypto-originated funds today.
Read the full page →Why this directory exists
Most citizenship‑ and residency‑by‑investment marketing collapses "we accept crypto" into a single claim, without saying whether that means a government payment gateway or an agent quietly converting Bitcoin to a bank wire before anyone official sees it. Those are completely different risk profiles for an applicant, and this directory exists to state the difference plainly, program by program, kept current as terms change — which they do, often. See our Advisory vertical for how ImmiCrypt sequences a strategy across more than one of these programs, and our Glossary for the compliance terms referenced throughout.