Antigua & Barbuda — CIP.
Minimum contribution more than doubled in August 2024.
At a glance
What changed
Antigua and Barbuda's National Development Fund contribution jumped from $100,000 to $230,000 on 1 August 2024 — more than double — as part of a region-wide push to raise Eastern Caribbean CBI pricing above a harmonized $200,000 floor. Antigua's current NDF and real-estate minimums already sit above that floor, so no further pricing change is currently expected on this front, though due-diligence requirements continue to tighten across the region (see below).
How crypto moves today
Crypto-funded applications are accepted only in select cases and only via licensed agents, who convert the holding to fiat before it's remitted to the National Development Fund or real-estate escrow — the same pattern as most of the Eastern Caribbean programs in our directory, with no standardized digital-asset compliance trail specific to Antigua.
Regional context: the ECCIRA harmonization
St Kitts and Nevis passed legislation in October 2025 establishing the Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority (ECCIRA) — a regional due-diligence body intended to tighten and standardize compliance across all five Eastern Caribbean CBI programs, Antigua included. Applicants should expect due-diligence requirements to keep converging across Dominica, Saint Lucia, St Kitts & Nevis, and Grenada as ECCIRA takes effect, rather than treating any one program's current process as fixed.
What ImmiCrypt's rail would add
A standardized, Travel Rule‑aligned source-of-funds record would give Antigua's CIU the same documentation quality regardless of which agent handled the crypto conversion — closing exactly the gap ECCIRA's regional harmonization is aimed at, but for digital assets specifically. See Compliance.