instant passport?

[void]

what are currently available and recently tested options to quickly/easily (not necessarily cheaply) obtain passport from the perspective of EU citizen
no bulls**t like residency for couple of years, language or history exams, marriage etc. - simply pay the ransom and here is your passport...
does it still exist?

 

[OffChance]

Saint kitts and nevis costs like 130k, but there is many. Just lookup citizenship by investment

 

[bisk]

You can obtain a Vanuatu passport within a month.

 

[troubled soul]

Sooner or later this Caribbean passport lose its charm...better to avoid them
Cyprus will be good option.....It takes time but worth it...........
Any person claiming to getting you "Instant passport "...You should avoid them like a plague

 

[koohl]

That may be very true. I can't see where it can be trusted to use such passports for instant in Europe!

 

[johnwickert]

EU citizens can obtain a second passport through investment programs such as Malta Citizenship by Investment, Cyprus Citizenship by Investment or Portugal Golden Visa.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

EU citizens can obtain a second passport through investment programs such as Malta Citizenship by Investment, Cyprus Citizenship by Investment or Portugal Golden Visa.

outdated.

 

[johnwickert]

outdated.

The EU

 

[peter taradash]

Instant Passport- no required residence, no language, no health tests,
no criminal record (unless you are a fugitive for a major crime) or any otherBS requirements.
If you have around USA $460,0000 in cash to invest for around 3+ years,
the Turkish passport is interesting because you can actually make
money on the deal-after the 3 year holding period.
You buy ANY real estate in Turkey worth at east $400,000.
Allow an extra $60,000 is for incidentals .
The good part is that you can select &
pick up a bargain in a rising market,
not just buy from an overpriced "authorized
developer"as in most of the Carib island projects.
You can resell the Turkish property in 3 years; still keep the passport
for life, and the life of your descendants!
The legal fees & transaction costs are closer to under $5,000 than
the much higher fees in most other programs. You ,
your wife & kids get the new passport in about 90
days & its a pretty good passport. The EU is
across the road; you can drive there in 5 minutes
if you live in the European area of Turkey . It is no problem getting
visas to anywhere you can't already go visa-free.
Of course nothing is that simple & you should read up
on the internet all the pros & cons.

 

[wellington]

Instant Passport- no required residence, no language, no health tests,
no criminal record (unless you are a fugitive for a major crime) or any otherBS requirements.
If you have around USA $460,0000 in cash to invest for around 3+ years,
the Turkish passport is interesting because you can actually make
money on the deal-after the 3 year holding period.
You buy ANY real estate in Turkey worth at east $400,000.
Allow an extra $60,000 is for incidentals .
The good part is that you can select &
pick up a bargain in a rising market,
not just buy from an overpriced "authorized
developer"as in most of the Carib island projects.
You can resell the Turkish property in 3 years; still keep the passport
for life, and the life of your descendants!
The legal fees & transaction costs are closer to under $5,000 than
the much higher fees in most other programs. You ,
your wife & kids get the new passport in about 90
days & its a pretty good passport. The EU is
across the road; you can drive there in 5 minutes
if you live in the European area of Turkey . It is no problem getting
visas to anywhere you can't already go visa-free.
Of course nothing is that simple & you should read up
on the internet all the pros & cons.

I like the sound of this one considering there is every possibility that Turkey will be a regional major power in the future.

However I've never come across a competent or legitimate looking legal representative to move it forth.

Those mentioning Carib, there was some changes recently, apparently it all goes through the US Crim system (which means data is leaked regardless of crimes etc so it will be shared with other nations - kinda defeats the object of obtaining a second citizenship as a backup to dystopian moves at home).

 

[I'mRobot]

Turkey may sound good but you will not travel trouble free and cross boarders with such a passport. They are not liked that much as for instant passports from Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany or France!

 

[peter taradash]

to Offshore Agent & Others--->Agreed. I would rather have a passport from Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany or France too -but they require 10 12 years of residence, language tests, civics tests, sparkling clean criminal record, and maybe another 5 years for processing. Unless you have the right ancestry.
Turkey is 90 days. Totally legal.No bribes. No ancestry. If we look at the Turkish visa-free chart, there are many places you can go easily visa free that you can't do visa-freewith a USA or EU passport--mostly African, mid-east Muslim, Brazil, South America, Asian countries & Russia.
So it boils down to if you are starving do you buy for $10 & eat a McDonald's Hamburger today (low quality but does the job) or do you wait 12 years for your reservation at Tour D'Argent in Paris where you'll spend $200 for dinner.Peter Taradash

You can obtain a Vanuatu passport within a month.

where can you go visa free on a Vanuatu passport?

 

[koohl]

Can reliable provider / agency services be mentioned here to get such passports? It's a jungle to find the right one.

 

[WorldCitizen99]

Instant Passport- no required residence, no language, no health tests,
no criminal record (unless you are a fugitive for a major crime) or any otherBS requirements.
If you have around USA $460,0000 in cash to invest for around 3+ years,
the Turkish passport is interesting because you can actually make
money on the deal-after the 3 year holding period.
You buy ANY real estate in Turkey worth at east $400,000.
Allow an extra $60,000 is for incidentals .
The good part is that you can select &
pick up a bargain in a rising market,
not just buy from an overpriced "authorized
developer"as in most of the Carib island projects.
You can resell the Turkish property in 3 years; still keep the passport
for life, and the life of your descendants!
The legal fees & transaction costs are closer to under $5,000 than
the much higher fees in most other programs. You ,
your wife & kids get the new passport in about 90
days & its a pretty good passport. The EU is
across the road; you can drive there in 5 minutes
if you live in the European area of Turkey . It is no problem getting
visas to anywhere you can't already go visa-free.
Of course nothing is that simple & you should read up
on the internet all the pros & cons.

and hold for 5 to avoid capital gains tax on the sale of the property

 

[DigiCambio]

Instant Passport- no required residence, no language, no health tests,
no criminal record (unless you are a fugitive for a major crime) or any otherBS requirements.
If you have around USA $460,0000 in cash to invest for around 3+ years,
the Turkish passport is interesting because you can actually make
money on the deal-after the 3 year holding period.
You buy ANY real estate in Turkey worth at east $400,000.
Allow an extra $60,000 is for incidentals .
The good part is that you can select &
pick up a bargain in a rising market,
not just buy from an overpriced "authorized
developer"as in most of the Carib island projects.
You can resell the Turkish property in 3 years; still keep the passport
for life, and the life of your descendants!
The legal fees & transaction costs are closer to under $5,000 than
the much higher fees in most other programs. You ,
your wife & kids get the new passport in about 90
days & its a pretty good passport. The EU is
across the road; you can drive there in 5 minutes
if you live in the European area of Turkey . It is no problem getting
visas to anywhere you can't already go visa-free.
Of course nothing is that simple & you should read up
on the internet all the pros & cons.

Buying house to get the Turkish passport was worth much more when it was 250k ( before Ukraine war ) and you need to know that after 3 years when you wanna sell the house you can only sell it to Turkish citizens so you will loose many potential buyers for higher price !

 

[JimBeam]

Turkey may sound good but you will not travel trouble free and cross boarders with such a passport. They are not liked that much as for instant passports from Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany or France!

Getting an EU visa with Turkish passport?!?!?
Good luck with that!

I watched couple months ago (on dw.com) that many EU countries are simply declining visas to Turkish people (even to those who have relatives or have been previously in EU) since the fall of the Lira as many of them are trying to leave Turkey so the number of applications skyrocketed.

 

[peter taradash]

Turkish wages and salaries are considerably below those in most of the EU and USA.
Thus naturally many Turks at the low end of the economic pyramid want to move to a place where they can earn more. A smaller number of Americans in the upper 1% with higher earnings than the lower 20% of all Turks combined are moving to tax havens.
Wanting a second passport (as life insurance & a place to go in times of crisis) has nothing to do with why some poor people and some rich people are moving to what they see as greener pastures. Turkey offers just one of hundreds of options. Those lucky enough to have the right ancestry can get a "free" passport and citizenship.
Where? Italy, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Hungary, Turkey and many other places.
For money, there is Cyprus, Austria and lots of little Caribbean Islands & Central American countries. For those willing to immigrate, live there and wait a few years, there is Canada, USA, Argentina, Paraguay, & many others.
The vast number of people in the world don't even have a passport from their home country. They don't travel abroad, invest abroad, or in many cases, don't even know or care if there IS anywhere outside of their home town. Birds in a cage? I.M.O., The readers here are a small, better informed minority. PT

 

[OnAndOffshore]

You can obtain a Vanuatu passport within a month.

SO UNTRUE! Please don't spread facts about things you don't know much about.... Nowhere in Vanuatu can you get a PASSPORT within 1 month. I do citizenships for a living and deal with their government. You don't even get citizenship in 30 days, let alone a passport, not even if you get lucky with the CBI board approval scheduled date. There is a MASSIVE backlog in Vanuatu with passport printing and it has been like that for quite a few months now. Their infrastructure (CBI program) is completely on the brinks of collapse on top of that. Plus now you don't even get EU/UK visa-free travel anymore yet it costs the same as one where you do.

To answer @void , it depends on what you want? Do you just want the fastest and easiest pay-up passport? Does it have to be valuable? If not, I have a super useless passport for a really low price! (couldn't find the laugh emoji, someone send me one)....

In this country, you pay less than $20,000 USD to the official escrow bank account of the government, they conduct a very quick security clearance and that's it. You will be given a passport and citizenship upon arrival to the country on Day 1. The only caveat is that they only accept this from citizens of approx. 50+ countries. If you can do it under any of those passports, you are golden!

OK, now I really have to go back to work!

 

[JohnnyDoe]

I have a super useless passport for a really low price!

from which secret country?

 

[OffChance]

SO UNTRUE! Please don't spread facts about things you don't know much about.... Nowhere in Vanuatu can you get a PASSPORT within 1 month. I do citizenships for a living and deal with their government. You don't even get citizenship in 30 days, let alone a passport, not even if you get lucky with the CBI board approval scheduled date. There is a MASSIVE backlog in Vanuatu with passport printing and it has been like that for quite a few months now. Their infrastructure (CBI program) is completely on the brinks of collapse on top of that. Plus now you don't even get EU/UK visa-free travel anymore yet it costs the same as one where you do.

To answer @void , it depends on what you want? Do you just want the fastest and easiest pay-up passport? Does it have to be valuable? If not, I have a super useless passport for a really low price! (couldn't find the laugh emoji, someone send me one)....

In this country, you pay less than $20,000 USD to the official escrow bank account of the government, they conduct a very quick security clearance and that's it. You will be given a passport and citizenship upon arrival to the country on Day 1. The only caveat is that they only accept this from citizens of approx. 50+ countries. If you can do it under any of those passports, you are golden!

OK, now I really have to go back to work!

Which passport is that for 20k?