Explore the easiest countries to get citizenship: years to naturalize, dual citizenship and investment routes in 198 countries.
Ranked by the fewest years of residence to naturalize, lower where dual citizenship isn't allowed, plus the countries that sell citizenship by investment.
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Western Asia
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Australia and New Zealand
Central America
South-eastern Asia
Eastern Europe
Southern Africa
Central Asia
Central America
Eastern Africa
South America
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Southern Asia
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Central Asia
Western Africa
Eastern Asia
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Central America
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Melanesia
Caribbean
Eastern Africa
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Western Africa
South-eastern Asia
Northern Africa
Middle Africa
South America
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Northern Europe
Western Europe
Northern Africa
Caribbean
Central Asia
Polynesia
South America
Western Europe
Southern Asia
Western Africa
Australia and New Zealand
Western Asia
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Western Africa
Southern Asia
Northern Europe
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Northern America
Eastern Europe
Southern Asia
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Western Europe
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Caribbean
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Middle Africa
Caribbean
Southern Europe
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Caribbean
Central America
Caribbean
Caribbean
Eastern Africa
Caribbean
South-eastern Asia
Southern Europe
Western Asia
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Northern Africa
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Micronesia
Caribbean
Melanesia
Caribbean
Central Asia
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Eastern Africa
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
Eastern Europe
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Melanesia
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Africa
Southern Europe
Northern Africa
Western Asia
South-eastern Asia
Middle Africa
Caribbean
Eastern Africa
Northern Europe
Western Africa
South-eastern Asia
South-eastern Asia
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Southern Europe
Melanesia
Western Africa
Southern Europe
Middle Africa
Eastern Asia
Western Asia
Central America
Western Asia
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Asia
Northern Africa
Northern Europe
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Western Europe
Western Africa
Western Europe
South America
Northern Africa
South-eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Southern Asia
Caribbean
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Western Asia
Western Africa
Southern Europe
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Eastern Africa
Southern Europe
Eastern Africa
Western Asia
Western Asia
Middle Africa
South-eastern Asia
Eastern Asia
Caribbean
Caribbean
Caribbean
Polynesia
Western Africa
Southern Europe
Polynesia
Caribbean
Caribbean
Eastern Asia
Northern America
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe
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Caribbean
Polynesia
Caribbean
Northern Europe
South America
Northern America
Southern Europe
Melanesia
Caribbean
Caribbean
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Eastern Asia
Eastern AsiaHow it sorts: each thing you pick scores every country from 0 to 1 (live for less: the World Bank's price level against the US; lower tax: no income tax or a territorial system first, then remittance, then a worldwide system by its top rate; easy residency: open nomad, freelancer, passive income or retirement visas; fast citizenship: fewer years to naturalize, less if dual citizenship isn't allowed; start a company: a low corporate tax; fast internet: M-Lab's median download, from 5 Mbps (empty) to 150 Mbps (full) on a log scale; safe: the US travel advice, with Levels 1 and 2 both counting as everyday travel; visa-free on my passport: your passport's rule for the country), and the countries sort by the average. With nothing picked, it's a balance of cost, tax, residency and safety.
Prices: the World Bank's purchasing power conversion factor over the exchange rate (WDI, CC BY 4.0). Tax: the territorial tax map's classification and each country's rates. Citizenship and residency: official immigration sources in the visa finders' tables. Safety: the US State Department's advisories, read 2026-09-29. Internet: M-Lab's open speed tests over the last 12 months. Videos and photos from Pexels, Coverr, Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons, credited on each country.
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Where can you get a second passport the fastest?
Ranked by the fewest years of residence to naturalize, lower where dual citizenship isn't allowed, plus the countries that sell citizenship by investment.
In this guide, I'll show you:
- The top 15 countries, and why each ranks where it does
- How the ranking works
- More ways to compare countries
Open any country for its full guide, with visas for your passport, tax and costs.
TL;DRKey takeaways
Easiest Countries to Get Citizenship: the ranking
- Argentina – about 2 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Armenia – about 3 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Bolivia – about 3 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Canada – about 3 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Brazil – about 4 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Australia – about 4 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Bulgaria – about 5 years, dual citizenship in some cases
- Sierra Leone – about 5 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Sri Lanka – about 5 years, dual citizenship in some cases
- Tajikistan – about 5 years, dual citizenship in some cases
- Vietnam – about 5 years, dual citizenship in some cases
- Tunisia – about 5 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Zambia – about 5 years, dual citizenship allowed
- Thailand – about 5 years, dual citizenship in some cases
- Kyrgyzstan – about 5 years, dual citizenship in some cases
How the ranking works
How it sorts: each thing you pick scores every country from 0 to 1 (live for less: the World Bank's price level against the US; lower tax: no income tax or a territorial system first, then remittance, then a worldwide system by its top rate; easy residency: open nomad, freelancer, passive income or retirement visas; fast citizenship: fewer years to naturalize, less if dual citizenship isn't allowed; start a company: a low corporate tax; fast internet: M-Lab's median download, from 5 Mbps (empty) to 150 Mbps (full) on a log scale; safe: the US travel advice, with Levels 1 and 2 both counting as everyday travel; visa-free on my passport: your passport's rule for the country), and the countries sort by the average. With nothing picked, it's a balance of cost, tax, residency and safety.
More ways to compare countries
Easiest countries to get citizenship FAQs
Questions about it? Here's what to know.
The countries at the top of the list ask for the fewest years of residence.
Most also require language, integration or time-spent rules; each country page links its source.
Only where dual citizenship is allowed, by both countries.
The list shows each country's rule; check your own country's too.
I've lived in Cambodia, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.
I'm a permanent resident of Panama, my home base.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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