Five questions, then a ranked shortlist scored against all 67 verified programmes.
Question 1 of 5
What are you really after?
This sets the lens for everything else.
What you are being matched against
Every programme on this site falls into one of three families, and they solve different problems. Most bad outcomes in this industry come from buying one while needing another.
Citizenship by investment
A second nationality and passport, granted directly, usually in three to six months and without living there. Entry now starts around USD 200,000 across the Caribbean following the regional price floor. You are buying mobility, optionality and a hedge — and, in five Caribbean cases, an asset facing a European phase-out demand by June 2028.
Residency by investment
The right to live somewhere, usually with a path to permanent residence and sometimes to citizenship after several years. Cheaper than citizenship by investment in headline terms but slower, and the settlement clock only runs if the permit sits inside the standard immigration ladder — several heavily marketed permits do not.
Tax residency
A jurisdiction where you become tax resident to change your position on income, gains or inheritance. Cyprus, the UAE, Italy, Monaco and the Caribbean financial centres are the usual shortlist. This is the family where the right answer depends least on price and most on the composition of your income.
The five questions place you across all three at once, which is the point: a reader who says “second passport” but whose real constraint is inheritance tax is usually better served by a tax-residency jurisdiction than by the Caribbean programme they came in asking about. The full set is in the programme index, ranked on one reproducible formula in the 2026 Index.
Questions people actually ask
How is the shortlist actually scored?
Your five answers — goal, budget, timeline, region and priority — are scored against all 67 verified programme dossiers. Budget filters hard: a programme whose minimum exceeds your stated budget cannot rank, however well it fits otherwise. Timeline and goal weight the remainder, and region nudges rather than filters, so a strong match outside your stated region still appears. The output is a fit percentage, not a recommendation.
Can a programme pay to rank higher?
No. No programme, government unit, adviser or advertiser can buy a position here, and none sees a rating before publication. The scoring runs off the same dossier data published on the site, so the inputs are checkable — if a result surprises you, the dossier shows you why. Our methodology sets out what each source is good and bad at.
Is the shortlist advice?
No. It is a research shortlist based on five data points, which is not enough to advise anyone on a six-figure decision. It does not know your tax residency, your existing citizenships, your family structure, whether you have a criminal record that due diligence will surface, or whether your funds are documentable to a standard a citizenship unit will accept. Treat it as the start of the work.
Do I have to give an email to see my matches?
No. Every match is visible immediately, and always has been. The email field offers to send the shortlist to you and to tell you if one of the programmes on it changes its terms — which is what a shortlist actually goes stale on. Nothing is hidden behind it.
Why do some well-known programmes not appear?
Three reasons. It may fall outside your budget, in which case it is filtered rather than ranked low. It may not exist in the form it is marketed in — the Bahamas is frequently sold as a citizenship programme and has none. Or it may be closing: five Caribbean programmes face a European phase-out demand by 1 June 2028.
Can I share or come back to my result?
Yes. The result lives in the page URL, so you can bookmark it, send it to a spouse or an adviser, and reopen it later. A shared link previews as your actual top match rather than a generic promotion.