You may travel around the EU with Montenegrin passport without any visa. The updated list of third countries whose citizens can visit the EU includes: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Canada, Montenegro, Qatar, Jordan, Moldova, Saudi Arabia. Recall that initially the list of countries included the United States. Nationals of those countries should carefully consider the protocols on pandemic responses when planning their visits. Nevertheless, this is a sign of progress in relation to travel.
Note that many clients of Apex Capital Partners have already received Montenegrin passports under the investment citizenship program. Thus, they received privileges to travel around the EU, even at a time when the borders are not yet open to everyone.
The Montenegro program is definitely the trend of 2021. But nevertheless, the Caribbean programs are also popular among investors. Let’s compare these two possibilities to highlight all the details so that investors could make a choice. Please mind that program of Montenegro stops at the end of the year 2021. Hurry up to make a choice! Note that it takes about a one and a half month to get all the papers application ready.
Montenegrin passport VS Caribbean passport
| Montenegrin passport | Caribbean passport |
|---|---|
| Montenegro plans to join the EU in 2025. | The Caribbean countries will never join the EU, but international agreements allow moving around the EU with Caribbean citizenship. |
| Only visa-free EU-Schengen gives Montenegrin citizenship (90 days in half a year). | Caribbean citizenship gives visa-free Great Britain in addition to visa-free EU-Schengen (90 days per half-year). |
| Montenegrin citizenship allows you to apply for a non-immigrant business visa in the United States, Е2. | Of the Caribbean countries, only Grenada has the opportunity to apply for an Е2-type visa in the United States. |
| Montenegrin citizenship is more expensive than Caribbean citizenship. But this is Europe. Status is inherited. | Caribbean citizenship can be obtained completely remotely, including obtaining a passport. In fact, this is a “multipass,” a visa-free all-terrain vehicle for life, with an inheritance. |
| Only the applicant (investor), his spouse (s), and financially dependent children can be included in the application for Montenegrin citizenship. | In addition to the investor, spouse, and children, it is possible to include the parents of the main applicant and the spouse, grandparents, and even sisters and brothers in the application for Caribbean citizenship. |
| Montenegro has a limit on the number of applications of 2,000 for the entire duration of the program (three years). | The Caribbean citizenship programs of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Saint Lucia do not impose restrictions on the number of applications from investors. |
| Montenegrin law allows other nationalities only if citizenship is acquired through investment under the program, and only in the first generation. | The Caribbean countries allow dual citizenship. |
| Montenegrin citizenship, according to the terms of the program, can be issued in 6 months. At the same time, in fact, now the approval of the application can take 50 days (there is such a case for the client Apex Capital Partners). | Caribbean citizenship can be obtained in about 6 months. However, Saint Kitts and Nevis has the possibility of expediting the procedure with the payment of additional duties. |
| Yachting on the Adriatic, regattas. | Yachting in the Caribbean, regattas. |
