Grenada Citizenship Cost in 2026: Every Fee, the Family Math, and the $30,000 the Industry Keeps

A single applicant should budget about $259,500 all-in for Grenada citizenship in 2026, and a family of four about $275,000 to $285,000. The advertised number is $235,000, and unusually for this industry, the gap between headline and reality is modest, because Grenada’s donation already covers a family of up to four. What the marketing does hide sits elsewhere: a real estate route that costs meaningfully more than its sticker, and a flat $30,000 commission that explains every “free consultation” you have been offered.

Standing disclosure first: Grenada standardized its marketing-agent commission at a flat US$30,000 per approved application in April 2025, and industry reporting puts the practical range at $30,000 to $35,000. Whoever is advising you for free is being paid that, on your approval, by the program. Civita charges a flat published fee, takes nothing from any program, and rebates in full any commission an engagement captures. Now the arithmetic.

The donation route: where the family math shines

The National Transformation Fund contribution is $235,000 for a main applicant plus up to three qualifying dependents. Like St Kitts, and unlike the per-person programs, Grenada prices the first four people flat: a couple with two children pays the same contribution as a bachelor, an effective $58,750 a head.

On top of the donation, from Civita’s verified cost model:

Line item	Single applicant	Couple + 2 children
NTF donation	$235,000	$235,000
Due diligence and per-person fees (application, interview, issuance; minors lower)	~$8,000	~$24,000
Government processing	~$1,500	~$1,500
Legal and professional	~$15,000	~$15,000 to $24,000
All-in	~$259,500	~$275,000 to $285,000

The dependent net stretches further than most programs: spouse, children, parents and grandparents under age and dependency rules, and unmarried dependent siblings, part of one of the widest dependent nets in the Caribbean. Every person beyond the included four adds tiered government and due-diligence fees, and siblings draw the heaviest scrutiny in vetting.

The real estate route: read the second line

Real estate starts at $270,000 for shared ownership in an approved project or $350,000 for a sole purchase. The number that the listings underplay is the government real estate fee of roughly $50,000, which exists precisely to close the gap with the donation route. Add due diligence, legal, and closing costs and the shared-ownership route lands past $340,000 all-in, against $259,500 for the donation, with a five-year minimum hold before resale and a resale market composed mostly of other citizenship buyers who would rather buy new. The property route only makes sense if you want the property. As passport financing, it is the expensive door.

What you are buying, and the clock worth knowing about

Citizenship for life, hereditary, granted in roughly 6 to 8 months with no visit required today, a passport reaching roughly 145 to 148 destinations with the rare combination of China, the Schengen Area, and the UK together, no tax on foreign income, gains, wealth, or inheritance, and the one feature no neighbor can sell: the US E-2 treaty, which turns Grenadian citizenship into a pathway to living and running a business in the United States. That route has its own rules and its own timeline, and we wrote it up separately in our Grenada E-2 guide.

The clock, updated: under the ECCIRA framework, the light physical-presence requirement (at least five days each in year one, thirty days per family collectively over five years) and the five-year first passport attach to applications filed from June 30, 2026, a line that has now passed. Filings before that date sit outside the default scope, though the agreement’s retroactivity clause lets states reach still-pending files; approval is the real lock. Official confirmation that the enforcement machinery is running has not yet been published, and the regulator’s launch has slipped repeatedly, but pricing a Grenada application in July 2026 means pricing in roughly 30 family-days on the island over five years. It remains the lightest obligation of any major citizenship program that has one; it is simply no longer zero.

Full program analysis, verified this month, lives in our Grenada report; the head-to-heads are in St Kitts vs Grenada and Grenada vs St Lucia. The one-line read: Grenada is not the cheapest Caribbean passport and does not pretend to be; it charges a roughly $35,000 premium over the region’s $200,000 floor for the E-2 treaty and one of the broadest travel maps in the Caribbean, the only one pairing China, the UK, and Schengen with a US treaty, and for the buyers who need either, that premium is the best-priced line item in the market.