Grenada passport: visa-free access, ranking and what it is worth

The Henley Passport Index of October 2026 ranks the Grenada passport 27th in the world, with a visa-free score of 148 destinations out of 227. That is above Dominica (30th, 144) and Saint Lucia (31st, 143) and below St Kitts and Nevis (22nd, 157) and Antigua and Barbuda (24th, 154). Official texts confirm short-stay access to the Schengen area, to the United Kingdom (with an online authorization) and to China.

No official source publishes a complete country-by-country list of where a Grenadian can go without a visa, with stay lengths. Websites that do publish one compile it by hand. This guide stays with what governments and the index itself state, covers the blocs that matter most, and says plainly what we could not confirm. For the method behind the score, see Henley Passport Index explained.

Where Grenada ranks

The October 2026 edition covers 199 passports and 227 destinations and ranks them by the number of destinations holders can enter without arranging a visa first. Tied passports share a rank.

Source: Henley & Partners, Henley Passport Index, 2026 Global Ranking (October edition). Differences are our arithmetic on the published scores.

Among the five Caribbean citizenship-by-investment passports, Grenada sits in the middle: nine destinations behind St Kitts and Nevis, four ahead of Dominica. Those gaps are real but small. A passport that is nine places better on paper may still not matter if your own travel is to a handful of countries, so check the specific destinations you need.

Access to the places that matter, from the official texts

The Schengen area and the EU

Grenada is listed in Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, the list of third countries whose nationals do not need a visa for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period. The regulation adds that Grenada’s exemption applies from the date of entry into force of an agreement on visa exemption concluded with the European Union. That agreement exists. The EU-Grenada short-stay visa waiver agreement, signed in Brussels on 28 May 2015 and applied provisionally from signature, provides for visa-free travel for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Two limits in the agreement text matter. It does not cover people traveling to carry out a paid activity, for whom national and EU rules on visas and work access continue to apply. And it does not apply to the United Kingdom or Ireland, which the agreement excludes from its definition of Member States.

Entry conditions. The Schengen Borders Code (Regulation (EU) 2016/399, Article 6) sets the conditions for stays of up to 90 days in any 180-day period, counted by considering the 180-day period preceding each day of stay. The traveler needs a valid travel document whose validity extends at least three months after the intended date of departure and that was issued within the previous 10 years (the three-month rule can be waived in a justified emergency). The traveler must also justify the purpose and conditions of the stay and show sufficient means of subsistence.

ETIAS. The European Commission describes ETIAS as an online travel authorization for non-EU travelers who do not need a visa to enter 30 European countries for short stays. As of its April 2026 update it is scheduled to start in the last quarter of 2026, with the exact date still to be announced. In July 2025 the Commission announced a fee of EUR 20, waived for travelers under 18 or over 70, which is subject to review. Grenadian passport holders do not need a Schengen visa, so they fall in the group the Commission describes. The Entry/Exit System, which changes border procedures for non-EU nationals on short stays, has been fully operational across the Schengen countries since 10 April 2026. Check the official ETIAS website for the start date before you travel.

The United Kingdom

Grenada is not on the UK government’s visa national list, so Grenadian visitors do not need a visitor visa. Since 8 January 2025 they do need an electronic travel authorization (ETA): Grenada appears on the Home Office’s ETA national list. An ETA allows travel to the UK for up to 6 months for tourism, visiting family and certain other reasons, and costs £20 on the official site. It does not guarantee entry.

China

According to the Chinese Embassy in Grenada, the mutual visa exemption agreement between the two countries came into effect in June 2015. Holders of valid Grenadian passports are exempt from visas for entry, exit or transit through China for a stay of up to thirty days. Longer stays, and study, employment or other activities that need prior approval, require the appropriate visa. Chinese provincial government material of August 2026 also lists Grenada among the countries with a mutual visa exemption agreement.

Russia

Russia and Grenada signed an agreement on waiving visa formalities for mutual trips of their citizens on 20 September 2017, and the Russian government’s official legal portal states that it entered into force on 24 December 2017. We did not confirm the permitted length of stay from an official text, so we do not state one.

The United States, Canada and Saudi Arabia

We could not read the US State Department and Department of Homeland Security pages, which block automated access, and we did not find Grenada’s status on the Canadian immigration pages we could open. We do not publish a requirement we could not read ourselves. Before you plan travel to either country, check the State Department’s visa reciprocity page for Grenada and the Canadian government’s entry requirements tool. We also did not confirm Saudi Arabia’s entry requirement for Grenadian passport holders, so we make no claim about it.

Confirmed access at a glance

The confirmed rows are taken from the official texts cited above. “Not confirmed” means we did not read an official statement for that destination. Check each government’s page before you travel.

What the score leaves out

• It measures short visits, not the right to live or work. The index counts destinations you can enter without arranging a visa first. Residence, work and study follow separate rules, and the EU agreement above expressly excludes paid activity.
• It counts more than “no visa at all”. Henley’s methodology gives one point where no visa is required, and also where the holder can get a visa on arrival, a visitor’s permit or an electronic travel authority (ETA) without pre-departure government approval. It gives zero where a visa is required, or where a government-approved e-Visa must be obtained before departure. The data come from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), supplemented by Henley’s own research. That is why the UK ETA does not remove a destination from the count. The methodology page we read does not say how ETIAS will be treated once it starts.
• Other numbers will not match. The index is updated monthly, and different indices and editions count differently, so a figure quoted elsewhere may differ from the 148 here. Always check which index and which month a number comes from.
• It does not depend on how the citizenship was acquired. The EU-Grenada agreement defines a citizen of Grenada as any person who holds the citizenship of Grenada, and it covers holders of a valid ordinary, diplomatic, service, official or special passport issued by Grenada. It makes no distinction between birth, naturalization or investment. We did not check whether other countries make such a distinction.
• It is a snapshot. The index is updated monthly, and visa policies change. A figure read today can be different next month.
• It does not predict your trip. Rank 27 with 148 destinations is a better guide to breadth than to access to the three or four countries you actually need.

The question hanging over Caribbean passports

The biggest risk to a Caribbean citizenship-by-investment passport is not the score. It is whether visa-free access to the EU continues. On 6 July 2026 the Government of Antigua and Barbuda published a statement saying the European Commission had told it that the mere operation of a citizenship-by-investment program is now a self-standing ground for suspending visa-free access under the revised EU visa suspension mechanism. The same statement says that Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia have received similar correspondence from the Commission.

That is a second-hand account from another government. We found no statement from the Government of Grenada on the letter or on any outcome. On 22 September 2026 the Investment Migration Agency Grenada announced that it had commissioned an independent review of the program; we found only the title of the announcement, not its scope or findings. A Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) Bill, 2026 is also published on the website of Grenada’s Parliament; we could not read the text of the document and do not describe its contents.

The practical reading: a Grenadian passport’s Schengen access rests on EU law and on an EU-Grenada agreement, and the EU has raised citizenship by investment as a reason it could change. That is a risk to weigh, not a prediction.

How the passport is obtained, according to the program’s own rules

The official site of the Investment Migration Agency Grenada states the following about citizenship by investment under the Citizenship by Investment Act, 2013:

• Applications may not be submitted directly to Grenada’s Citizenship by Investment Committee. They must be handled by authorised agents.
• The main applicant must be at least eighteen years old, in good health, and have enough legally sourced funds to make the required investment.
• An application is denied for anyone convicted of an offence carrying a maximum custodial penalty of more than six months, unless pardoned, and for anyone denied a visa to a country with which Grenada has visa-free travel who has not later obtained one.
• Under the National Transformation Fund route, applicants make a one-time contribution. They may apply for citizenship immediately or first apply for permanent residence and apply for citizenship later.
• Investment through real estate is permitted only in a limited number of government-approved projects, and the list can change.
• Once proof of payment or a completed property purchase is received, the Committee issues the certificate of registration, and the authorised local agent uses it to apply for the passport.

The fee amounts were not readable on the pages we checked, so we do not quote them here. The current requirements, amounts and approved projects are on our Grenada program page. GoldPassports is an authorised agent for the Grenada program.

So what is it worth?

1. Breadth: 148 destinations puts Grenada in the middle of the five Caribbean citizenship-by-investment passports.
2. The blocs that matter: Schengen (90 days in 180), the UK (with an ETA) and China (30 days) are confirmed from official texts. The US and Canada are not confirmed here.
3. The trade-off: the passport does not give the right to live or work in those places, and EU access carries a policy risk that is visible in the Antigua and Barbuda statement above.
4. The decision: if your goal is mobility for business trips, compare 148 with your actual destinations. If it is residence or tax planning, the passport is one tool among several, and not always the right one.

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Last verified against the sources below on 18 October 2026. This article is general information, not legal or tax advice.

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Official sources

Figures on this page come from the sources below and were last verified on 18 October 2026. Rules change; always confirm the current position. This is general information, not legal or tax advice.

1. Henley & Partners: Henley Passport Index, 2026 Global Ranking (October edition, PDF)
2. Investment Migration Agency Grenada: Becoming a citizen
3. Investment Migration Agency Grenada: Citizenship by investment
4. Investment Migration Agency Grenada: home page and press releases
5. Government of Antigua and Barbuda: response to the European Commission communication on CBI (6 July 2026)
6. European Union: Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, Annex II (visa-exempt third countries)
7. European Union: Agreement between the European Union and Grenada on the short-stay visa waiver
8. UK Government: Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor Visa National List
9. UK Government: Immigration Rules Appendix ETA National List
10. UK Government: Get an electronic travel authorisation (ETA)
11. Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Grenada: mutual visa exemption agreement
12. Hainan Provincial Government: Visa-free entry policies
13. Government of the Russian Federation: Agreement with Grenada on visa formalities (official legal portal)
14. Parliament of Grenada: Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) Bill, 2026
15. European Union: Regulation (EU) 2016/399, Schengen Borders Code
16. European Commission, DG Migration and Home Affairs: Main differences between the EES and ETIAS (28 April 2026)
17. European Commission, DG Migration and Home Affairs: The European travel authorisation ETIAS will cost EUR 20 (17 July 2025)
18. Henley & Partners: Henley Passport Index methodology