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This Island Nation in the Pacific Is Selling Passports for $90,000 — Here's What Buyers Get

Nauru, a Pacific island nation threatened by rising sea levels, is offering citizenship through a $90,000 investment programme to raise funds for climate adaptation. Here's how the "golden passport" scheme works, what benefits it offers, and why it has sparked debate over security and ethics.

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The market for golden passports, a segment to which global investors resort to diversify their mobility and their property options, has added a new actor with a highly competitive profile. São Tomé and Príncipe, an African archipelago off the coast of Gabon, has begun issuing citizenship for investment to foreigners in exchange for a single contribution of $90,000, one of the lowest entry barriers in the sector. According to data from Immigrant …

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Business Elites Africa broke the news on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
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