June 2026 Global Mobility News: Nauru's $90K Passport Window Closes, Ireland Cuts Caribbean Visa-Free Access, Uruguay Speeds Up Citizenship (+ 2 More Updates)
Global mobility updates you should not miss this month
Each month I track new visas, residency changes, and travel rules so you don’t miss anything.
Visa launches
Rule and fee changes
Travel access changes
Citizenship & investment news
Here is what changed in the last four weeks.
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Nauru’s $90,000 Passport Deal Closes June 30
Nauru cut the price of its citizenship program to $90,000 in February, down from $115,000.
The window closes in a few days (June 30).
What and where is Nauru?
Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world (about 8 square miles) with around 12,000 people, located northeast of Australia and just below the equator.
How does their Citizen-By-Investment program work?
The official name is the “Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program”.
After you make a one-time contribution, the approval will come in about three months. The discount applies to any application filed before June 30 (even if you pay later).
Now the most important question.
Is spending $90,000 in this passport a good deal?
It might look like a deal until you look at the passport.
Nauru ranks around 60th on the major passport indexes, middle of the pack, with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to roughly 90 destinations.
None of them are the ones most Americans want.
No visa-free entry to the United States, Canada, or the Schengen Area. The UK cut Nauru's visa-free access in December 2025, pointing straight at this citizenship program as the reason.
I wrote earlier about someone who paid $130,000 for the 88th-ranked passport from Vanuatu.
If I had to decide between the two, Vanuatu clearly wins.
What this means for you:
Skip it.
A $90,000 passport you can’t travel on is a waste of money.
Fast and cheap citizenship makes sense in narrow cases, and only if you've exhausted more suitable options (via descent and/or naturalization).
Ireland Drops Visa-Free Access For Three Passports
On June 11, Ireland announced that citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Nicaragua now need a visa to enter.
The rule took effect June 15.
It covers ordinary, diplomatic, and service passports, plus airport transit.
Two of those three, St. Kitts and Saint Lucia, run active citizenship-by-investment programs.
Visa-free travel is one of the main things they sell.
Migration Minister Colm Brophy said the move brings Ireland “in line” with the UK and the rest of Europe.
Britain had already done the same, tying its decision to a rise in asylum claims and the security risk it sees in Caribbean CBI passports.
I covered this same pattern in January, when Norway began deporting Caribbean passport holders at the border without changing a single written rule.
Remember:
An investment passport is only as good as the countries still honoring it.
And the list is getting shorter, at least for some of those programs.
What this means for you: