Anguilla Investor Visa

The figures now exist, and they are set out by Select Anguilla, the agency the government has designated to receive residence by investment applications. There are two groups of options, in US dollars:

The USD 750,000 real estate figure is applied in practice: the minutes of the Executive Council meeting of 5 December 2024 record an application approved because the sale and purchase agreement and the Alien Land Holding Licence both met that minimum.

At the same meeting another application was approved under the retroactive fast track option for existing property owners, against a minimum of USD 600,000 on appraised value. The Select Anguilla page does not mention this option.

The programme now runs on an Act in force, not a bill. The minutes of the 209th meeting of the Anguilla Executive Council, held on 5 December 2024 and published on gov.ai, record applications received under the Anguilla Economic Residence Act 2019, as amended by the Anguilla Economic Residence (Amendment) No. 18 Act, 2024.

What is granted is permanent residence. At that meeting the Council approved two applications for permanent residence under section 10(2) of the Act: one on the real estate route in section 3(2)(b), and one under the retroactive fast track option for existing property owners.

The decision rests with the Executive Council. The RBI Review Committee and the Select Anguilla agency are then informed, and the applicant must fulfil any outstanding requirements within 60 days.

According to Anguilla Focus of 24 July 2024, the House of Assembly passed the amendment on 23 July 2024. It allows an application to be made after the property purchase is completed; previously the application had to be made before buying, when executing a binding sale and purchase agreement with a developer or owner.

Alongside this residence route, Select Anguilla also runs the High Value Resident programme, a separate tax residence regime covered in the tax cell of this page.

The full consolidated Act has not been read: the A064 page in the 2022 revised statutes on gov.ai returned a 404 on 28 September 2026.

The Act sets no deadline for the decision-maker, and more strikingly it writes delay into the statute as a legitimate outcome. Section 10(1) vests ultimate authority to decide all applications in the Executive Council.

Subsection (2) gives the Council exactly three options on receiving the Review Committee's recommendation: grant, deny, or delay, for cause.

That third option carries no time ceiling, no duty to report against any milestone, and no consequence if it runs long.

Once decided, the Council advises the Review Committees and the Agency, and the Agency then notifies the authorised agent in writing rather than the applicant — one further step which the Act again leaves untimed.

Meanwhile every clock the Act does set runs against the applicant.

After conditional approval the applicant must complete the sale and purchase of Approved Real Estate within sixty calendar days, and must pay all other fees including permit fees within sixty days of that conditional approval.

For agents, a licence may be revoked where a prescribed fee stays unpaid for fourteen calendar days after falling due.

All three figures are the citizen's deadlines; on the state's side there is no figure at all.

The administering Ministry own presentation sets out a table comparing the ARBI programme with citizenship programmes, and three lines in it cut across what brokers tend to promise.

First, permanent residents have the right to live without restrictions, but a work permit is still required in order to work. Second, only citizens may vote.

Third, a permanent residence document is not a passport and confers no increased travel privileges.

The same presentation also describes the ordinary route to permanent residence, without investment:

Permanent residence is granted to persons who have been legally residing in Anguilla for at least six months per year for ten or more consecutive years immediately preceding the date of application, and permits are issued on payment of a fee of EC$1,000, renewable annually on the same fee.

To go further to British Overseas Territories citizenship, the naturalisation process requires having lawfully resided in Anguilla for at least nine months per year for five consecutive years, and a similar time requirement applies to registration as a British citizen

The current Select Anguilla page divides the options into a group granting the right to reside only and a group granting the right to reside and work; the thresholds for both are in the capital threshold cell.

The 2019 bill, the original text of the Act now in force, defines a dependant in four groups. First, the spouse of the applicant — and spouse is defined as the spouse in a monogamous marriage, or in another relationship having the same or similar status to marriage, including a civil union. Second, a child of the applicant or of their spouse who is under 18.

Third, a child of the applicant or of their spouse who is at least 18 and under 26, in full-time attendance at a recognised institution of higher learning and fully supported by the applicant.

Fourth, a child of the applicant or of their spouse, of any age, who is physically or mentally challenged and fully supported by the applicant or their spouse

The 2024 amendment widens the third group: according to Anguilla Focus of 24 July 2024, a person aged 18 to 26 who has been accepted by a tertiary institution and is scheduled to begin within one year of acceptance also counts as a dependant, so a student taking a gap year remains eligible.

The status this programme grants, whether a visa or a residence permit, does not replace the holder's passport. The holder still travels on the passport of their own country, so the figure below belongs to the Anguilla passport and becomes the holder's only once they are issued a Anguilla passport.

The ranking table of Prosperous Intelligence lists Anguilla as a territory that inherits the United Kingdom passport, so the figure below is the figure for the British passport this territory shares.

According to the Passport Index of Prosperous Intelligence, on data dated 30 September 2026, the Anguilla passport reaches 201 destinations without applying for a consular visa in advance. The figure combines three forms of entry and does not count an e-Visa that must be obtained beforehand:

It is therefore a measure of how easily the holder travels, not a count of visa-free countries in the narrow sense.

For comparison, on the same source and the same method of counting, the Vietnamese passport reaches 44 destinations. The two lists of destinations do not nest inside one another, so the difference is an indication rather than a list of places newly opened.

Prosperous Intelligence dates its data and advises checking with the destination’s official authorities before travelling.

Anguilla runs two separate programmes, and a reader needs the distinction before any figure, because only one of the two creates tax residence. The first is Residence by Investment.

It confers residence rights and states expressly that there is no obligatory presence requirement.

That programme offers two options carrying residence rights and two carrying residence and work rights. Amounts are in USD:

And here is the decisive point: the page for that programme contains the phrase income tax not once — it speaks only in general terms of tax optimisation and a virtually tax-free destination.

Residence by investment does not of itself confer tax residence.

The second programme, the High Value Resident scheme, is the tax regime, and the agency describes it thus: the programme simplifies your worldwide income tax liability with a fixed annual lump sum payment. The conditions for recognition as a tax resident run to six limbs: an annual worldwide income tax lump sum of USD 75,000.

The ability to prepay five years of that lump sum; ownership of real estate of at least USD 400,000. A minimum of 45 non-consecutive days a year in Anguilla; establishing genuine links in Anguilla such as a bank account and club memberships.

Good character and health; and an annual declaration of having spent fewer than 183 days in any other country.

On the territory general tax base, the agency writes in terms: Anguilla has no direct taxation, with no income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax or corporate taxation, the government relying on customs duties to run an almost zero tax jurisdiction.

The next sentence is the pivot that prevents overstatement: all applicants for the real estate or contribution residency options will benefit from these tax classifications — that is, the investment route enjoys the territory-wide absence of direct taxation, not a concession belonging to the programme.

This is the exclusion motif in refined form: a preferential tax regime does exist, but its definition requires 45 days of presence and USD 400,000 of property — conditions the residence-by-investment route does not require and does not automatically meet; anyone seeking tax residence must apply separately under the second programme.

This must be recorded as a joining: the pages do not state in a flat negative that the investment residence permit fails to create tax residence; that conclusion is drawn from the two programmes being presented separately with two different sets of conditions.

Fees are the same for both programmes, and the real estate route carries an additional real estate licence fee. Amounts are in USD:

Processing for both runs about three months.

Read this cell within its scope: the source is the agency appointed by government to process all residency-by-investment applications, and its official standing is confirmed by the government portal linking directly to it; it covers conditions, investment thresholds, fees and family composition, and describes the territory tax base.

It does not cite the name, number or date of any statute for either programme, and does not link to a revenue authority — the territory legislation portal is a JavaScript shell whose statute index cannot be read by machine.

The 2019 bill, the original text of the Act now in force, defines a police certificate unusually widely. It is a statement on the status of the criminal records of the applicant and of each dependant, from the national law enforcement authority of each country concerned.

That means each country in which they have resided for more than six consecutive months in the ten years immediately preceding the date of the application.

Translation is tightened too: an authenticated translation must be done by a professional translator officially accredited to a court of law, a government agency, an international organisation or a similar official institution.

In a country where there are no officially accredited translators, by a company whose role or business is professional translation.

On real estate, the Minister declares a project or property to be Approved Real Estate only after consultation with the Executive Council, and that approval must be published in the Gazette.

Fractional ownership is permitted where it complies with the Fractional Ownership Act; purchase through a company is permitted only through an Anguillan Legal Entity, with the purchasing company bearing the suffix ".sab" and a seller of shares the suffix ".sas", both in good standing under the Companies Act