Have a $1,000,000 (yes, that’s one million) burning a hole in your pocket? The island nation of Mauritius has a deal for your. An exquisite, dark blue passport with your name on it, and of course Mauritian citizenship conferred.
The money you pay goes directly into the nation’s “sovereign wealth fund.” And you wouldn’t want to leave your family out of this opportunity. For an additional $100,000 per each, they too can join you in joining the Mauritian family.
This is what the Prime Minister and Finance Minister are suggesting.
In what can only be described as an opportunity to acquire a Mauritius Passport and to promote Foreign Direct Investment into their country, the sale of citizenship just got a bit more expensive.
That million dollars is non-refundable, should you find that you and Mauritius aren’t a fit.
The current Citizenship Act requires an investor to part with $500,000 and $50,000 for each family member, there is an alternative path to acquire citizenship.
Is this a pig in the poke? Nope.
Mauritius is a fairly stable country, with a diversified population of African, French, Chinese, and Indian ethnicity present among the million person population.
Are we making it up, not a chance.