FATCA-Compliant Global Mobility for US Persons

No. Vanuatu permits dual citizenship and the United States permits its citizens to acquire additional nationalities. Your US citizenship and passport remain fully intact, and your Vanuatu passport becomes a parallel travel and asset-protection instrument that you may use or hold dormant at your discretion.

Vanuatu citizenship itself triggers no new US tax. FATCA and FBAR continue to apply to any foreign accounts you open. We coordinate with your US tax counsel so that any Vanuatu-domiciled bank account, IBC or trust is reported correctly from day one, keeping your global structure transparent to the IRS.

Yes. Documented US business income, salary, capital-gains distributions, real-estate sale proceeds and brokerage statements are all accepted. The Vanuatu Financial Intelligence Unit requires a clear paper trail; standard US tax returns, CPA letters and bank statements typically satisfy the review within fourteen days.

No. The US exit tax under IRC §877A is only triggered if you formally renounce US citizenship or terminate long-term green-card status. Acquiring a second citizenship in Vanuatu is not an expatriating act on its own and does not require a Form 8854 filing. Your worldwide US tax obligations continue unchanged.

No. Vanuatu does not share citizenship grants with the IRS, the Department of State or any US agency. CRS information exchange covers financial accounts, not citizenship status, and the US is not a CRS participant. Your acquisition remains private; only the financial accounts you choose to open in Vanuatu fall within FATCA reporting.

US citizens must enter and depart the United States on a US passport under 8 USC §215(b), regardless of any other nationalities held. The Vanuatu passport is used for travel to third countries — particularly Asia-Pacific, Commonwealth and Caribbean destinations — and as an asset-protection and visa-free mobility instrument outside US borders.

Cleanly. A Vanuatu IBC or VIPA-licensed trust can be structured as a foreign holding vehicle below your existing US LLC, S-Corp or revocable living trust, mirroring well-established Cayman, BVI and Bermuda planning. Form 5471, 8865 or 8938 reporting may apply depending on ownership thresholds; we coordinate with your CPA before any structure is implemented.

Closed civil matters — discharged bankruptcies, settled IRS tax liens, resolved SEC civil settlements without admission of fraud — are generally not disqualifying. The Vanuatu FIU focuses on unresolved criminal matters, active investigations and AML risk. Each file is pre-screened privately before any application is submitted, and edge cases are reviewed with the Citizenship Commission in advance.

No. A non-US-citizen spouse, foreign-national dependent children up to age 25 in full-time education, and dependent parents over 50 may all be included on a single family file. Each adult applicant is independently due-diligence screened, but only one consolidated government fee and one consolidated processing timeline apply.

Vanuatu citizenship does not insulate any person or entity from OFAC obligations — US persons remain bound by US sanctions law wherever they reside. The Vanuatu FIU itself screens every applicant against UN, OFAC and EU sanctions lists; any positive hit is grounds for refusal. The program is calibrated for clean US persons, not as a sanctions workaround.