Terms and Disclaimer

What this site is

A privately published guide to the Vanuatu citizenship application form and the document pack that accompanies it: what the pack contains, who completes which portion, and what causes a submission to be returned.

Independence from the authorities

The Government of Vanuatu neither produces nor endorses anything on this site. We are not the Citizenship Office, nor the Citizenship Commission, the Financial Intelligence Unit or the Department of Immigration; we act for none of them and hold no designation from them. They appear on these pages only because the application forms and process cannot be explained without them.

Description, not advice

Explaining how a form works is not advising you on your own application. Nationality, residence, family circumstances and the history of your funds all change what applies, and none of that is known here. No professional relationship arises from reading this, and nothing on the site replaces an adviser who has seen your papers.

No outcome is promised

Citizenship is granted by the Vanuatu Citizenship Commission in its discretion. No website or agent can assure approval, fix a date, or recover a fee once the corresponding work has begun — and the due diligence fee is expressly not refunded where a check is failed. Any duration mentioned here reports what the market says rather than what any authority undertakes.

Information dates

Fees, eligibility and travel rules are revised by the bodies that set them, at times abruptly. What appears here was verified against official sources on the date shown with each page and may since have changed. Confirm anything you intend to act on with the authority concerned.

Travel access

When this site says which countries accept the passport, it reflects the situation at the time of writing; each destination controls its own entry rules, and they can change unannounced. Older sources often miss two developments: visa-free access to the European Union was suspended in February 2023, and in July 2023 the United Kingdom designated Vanuatu a visa national country.

Document requirements change

Most of an application consists of documents produced by others — registries, police authorities, notaries, translators and apostille offices — each with its own rules, fees and pace. Requirements described here follow theirs and change when theirs do.

Links

We link to official sources so you can confirm statements for yourself. What those sources say, and whether they stay online, is beyond our control.

Enquiries

Submitting the enquiry form commits neither you nor us and does not begin any engagement. Do not include identity documents, financial records or payment details in it.

Liability

Everything here is supplied on an as-is basis. To the extent the law allows, we exclude liability for any loss caused by relying on it, though nothing in these terms attempts to exclude liability the law says cannot be excluded.