Investor Benefits

What STP citizenship provides.

If your objective is a second citizenship that does not expire, at a low entry cost and on an eight-week timeline, this is what São Tomé & Príncipe gives you — with the conditions that attach to each point stated alongside it.

São Tomé & Príncipe citizenship grants visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 61+ countries, zero tax on foreign-sourced income, lifetime inheritable citizenship, full family inclusion in a single application, and a 100% remote application process with no residency requirement.

Lifetime Rights

Citizenship for life, inheritable by descendants

Your citizenship is permanent and passes to your children and their descendants. There is no expiry, no renewal obligation, and no investment hold requirement once granted.

Permanent for the main applicant
Automatically inheritable by direct descendants
No renewal or maintenance required

Global Mobility

Visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 61+ countries

Travel freely to key business and lifestyle destinations including Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Türkiye, and across most of West and Southern Africa.

Singapore · Hong Kong · South Africa
CPLP — Portuguese-speaking community access
Expanding bilateral agreements

Tax Efficiency

No global income or wealth tax for non-residents

São Tomé & Príncipe does not tax foreign-sourced income or global wealth for non-resident citizens. There are no wealth, gift, or inheritance taxes.

Zero tax on worldwide income (non-resident)
No wealth or inheritance taxes
Territorial tax system

Family Inclusion

One application — spouse, children, parents

Include your spouse or de facto partner, children under 30, and dependent parents 55+ in a single application. Unmarried partners and stateless persons are recognised.

De facto partners recognised
Children under 30 included
Dependent parents 55+ included

The Lusophone Advantage

Access the world's Portuguese-speaking community.

As a São Tomé & Príncipe citizen, you become part of the CPLP — the Community of Portuguese Language Countries — an intergovernmental organisation of nine member states across four continents: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Timor-Leste and São Tomé & Príncipe. Guinea-Bissau's membership was suspended in December 2025.

CPLP membership structures cooperation between states under the 2002 Brasília Convention and the 2021 CPLP Mobility Agreement. It confers no automatic right of residence, work, study or free movement on individuals: each member state applies its own immigration law, and CPLP nationality is a qualifying condition for certain simplified routes rather than a grant of status.

Pathway to Portugal 🇵🇹

EU residency via CPLP

CPLP residence permit — as an STP citizen you qualify for Portugal's dedicated CPLP residence authorisation, granted under Law 23/2007 (as amended) with a simplified application route reserved for CPLP nationals.
5-year path to Portuguese citizenship — after legal residence in Portugal, CPLP nationals are eligible to apply for naturalisation under the Portuguese Nationality Law (Law 37/81), with a reduced Portuguese-language threshold reflecting the shared official language.
Full Schengen & EU mobility — Portuguese residence permits permit travel throughout the Schengen Area; Portuguese citizenship grants the full freedom-of-movement, work, and establishment rights of an EU citizen across all 27 EU member states.
No language barrier — applications, contracts, and daily life are conducted in Portuguese, the language already spoken in São Tomé.

Pathway to Brazil 🇧🇷

Equal-rights residency

Equality Statute — under the Brazil–Portugal/CPLP equality framework and Brazil's Migration Law (Law 13.445/2017), Portuguese-speaking nationals can apply for residence on simplified grounds, including the reciprocity provisions extended to CPLP citizens.
1-year accelerated naturalisation — Article 12 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution provides that nationals of Portuguese-speaking countries may acquire Brazilian nationality after only one year of uninterrupted residence and proof of moral character — the fastest naturalisation track in the Americas.
Mercosur access — Brazilian residence opens onward residency and work rights across Mercosur (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and associate states) under the Mercosur Residence Agreement.
Business & banking — equality of civil rights with Brazilian nationals once the Estatuto da Igualdade is granted: own property, operate companies, and access the domestic banking system without restriction.

Note: residency and naturalisation in Portugal and Brazil remain at the discretion of those governments and are subject to their domestic immigration laws. STP citizenship establishes eligibility for the routes reserved for CPLP nationals; it is not an automatic grant of EU or Brazilian status. We can refer approved clients to Portuguese and Brazilian immigration counsel.

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