About This Site

Why this site exists

Search for a Vanuatu crypto passport and you will be told, on page after page, that Vanuatu was the first country to sell citizenship for Bitcoin and that it still does. The Citizenship Office and Commission says otherwise, in a published notice: it does not recognise and will not accept payments made under its programmes by Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, and the only currency named in the Regulations under the Citizenship Act [CAP 112] is the US dollar.

Both things are true at once, and that is the confusion this site was built to clear up. Cryptocurrency really can fund a Vanuatu application. It simply does not reach the government as cryptocurrency. An authorised agent receives your digital assets, converts them through a regulated channel, and remits United States dollars. The state never holds a coin.

What follows from that distinction

Once you see the mechanism clearly, the difficult part of a crypto-funded application moves. It is not the transfer, which settles in minutes. It is evidencing where the assets came from to the satisfaction of the Vanuatu Financial Intelligence Unit, whose due diligence is a real gate rather than a formality and whose fee is not returned if the check is failed.

That is why the weight on this site sits where it does. The pages on source of funds and conversion are longer and more specific than the pages on which coin to send, because that is the ratio in which applications actually succeed and fail.

How the figures here are checked

Every number on this site is traced to a source before it is published. Contribution tiers come from the programme's own structure: US$130,000 for a single applicant, US$150,000 for a couple, US$165,000 with one child and US$180,000 with two, alongside a non-refundable US$5,000 due diligence fee. Travel access is stated as 88 countries and territories, the figure behind the passport's current Henley ranking, rather than the 130-plus still advertised across the niche.

That last figure matters more than it looks. It describes a world that ended in 2023, when the European Union suspended its visa waiver in February and the United Kingdom made Vanuatu a visa national country in July. Anyone buying a second passport on the strength of Schengen access is buying something that no longer exists.

What we do not do

We do not promise approval, because citizenship is granted by the Vanuatu Citizenship Commission and by nobody else. We do not quote a guaranteed timeline, because the two-to-four months you will see advertised is an industry average rather than a government commitment. We do not claim affiliation with any Vanuatu authority. And we do not ask for wallet credentials, private keys or seed phrases at any stage — no legitimate process requires them.

Getting in touch

If you are weighing an application and want the mechanics explained against your own circumstances, send an enquiry through the form. Questions about the origin of funds are the ones worth asking early, while the file can still be built properly, rather than after a due diligence check has gone against you.