🇻🇺 Immigration guide
Long-term residence may be based on employment, self-funded residence, foreign investment, leasehold ownership or family connections, with a separate permanent-residence category for serious investors. Ordinary naturalisation generally requires ten years of continuous lawful residence before application. Current investment-citizenship fees and channels have been revised repeatedly, so unconfirmed marketing figures are not stated here.
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Only routes with current review coverage and complete official sourcing are shown here.
A person with at least 12 months of employment in Vanuatu and a maintained work permit may apply under the employee-residence checklist.
Requires a Vanuatu bank to certify monthly income of at least VUV250,000. For an applicant including a spouse or de facto partner, the threshold is VUV500,000.
Requires a VIPA foreign-investment approval, any applicable business licence and a VFSC certificate, while maintaining the investment activity on which the application relies.
Meeting a residence or eligibility period usually does not grant status automatically; check each route's application method and limits.
A person who has ordinarily and lawfully lived in Vanuatu for at least 10 years before applying may use Form A. After document review and a Bislama test, approval remains a decision of the Citizenship Commission.
Timing：Check the official residence-period rule.
Application method：Usually requires a separate application
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