One contribution. One passport. One country.
El Salvador's Freedom Passport is the only citizenship by investment settled in Bitcoin at the sovereign level. Here is the entire program, on the record.
The program, on paper.
Who runs it, under what authority, and since when. Every figure below is verified against the program's authorizing decrees and The Bitcoin Office.
Local authorization issued to Bitcitizen LLC, operating as 21 CBI, under Director Stacy Herbert of The Bitcoin Office, valid 27 Feb 2026 to 26 Feb 2027. The Freedom Passport launched 7 December 2023 under Legislative Decrees No. 918 and No. 286.
Five lines. Nothing hidden.
The entire commercial and legal shape of the Freedom Passport, in five lines. No tier matrix, no fine print that contradicts the headline.
One contribution. One pathway. One price.
No real estate to manage from 6,000 miles away. No bond maturity to track. No refund application after five years. You contribute $1,000,000 in BTC or USDT and receive permanent, hereditary citizenship for your family.
The simplicity is the feature.
"One flat contribution settled in Bitcoin, permanent and hereditary citizenship, processed in 6 to 8 weeks without relocation," says Adam Juchniewicz, CEO of 21 CBI. "There is nothing to manage afterward, and that is the point."
Why this passport exists, and no other.
El Salvador did not bolt Bitcoin onto an immigration product. The state built the institutions first. These are the six that make the Freedom Passport unlike anything else priced at $1,000,000.
Bitcoin as legal tender
Bitcoin held legal-tender status from 7 September 2021 to 30 April 2025, when Decreto Legislativo No. 199 repealed it and made private-sector acceptance voluntary. BTC retains 0% capital-gains treatment for foreign investors. A pragmatic refinement, not a retreat.
A national Bitcoin Office
A government institution under President Bukele. Director Stacy Herbert signs all agent authorizations. No other citizenship program in the world is administered by a national Bitcoin Office.
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Approximately 7,684 BTC as of June 2026: treasury purchases plus state mining, every coin tracked on-chain at bitcoin.gob.sv.
Geothermal Bitcoin mining
State-backed mining powered by volcanic geothermal energy, feeding the reserve. The volcano under Izalco is not a metaphor; it is the power source.
Digital Asset Framework
CNAD licenses and supervises Digital Asset Service Providers under the LEAD framework, in force since January 2023.
Business and free movement
Citizenship enables company formation and opens the CA-4 free-movement zone. The country holds BITs with the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Panama, and Uruguay, and a full DTA with Spain.
The treasury you can audit.
Approximately 7,684 BTC as of June 2026, accumulated through treasury purchases and state geothermal mining. The balance is published on-chain. You do not take the sovereign's word for the reserve; you read it block by block.
What belongs in the file.
The Freedom Passport screens hard. Below is exactly what every applicant supplies, and exactly who cannot apply.
What you must provide
- 18 or older.
- A clean criminal record across all countries of residence.
- Police clearances under 90 days old.
- A legitimate, verifiable source of funds, with on-chain documentation for the BTC or USDT contribution.
- A valid passport.
- A medical certificate plus health insurance.
- Proof of address under 90 days old.
- Pass AML/CTF due diligence (2–3 weeks).
- Good character.
- In-person passport collection at an authorized Salvadoran location.
Who cannot apply
- Nationals of Cuba, North Korea, Iran, or Syria.
- Residents of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, or Zaporizhzhia.
- OFAC-sanctioned individuals.
- Anyone with criminal convictions or pending proceedings.
- Anyone with an unverifiable source of funds.
- Anyone with adverse screening results.
- Anyone who provides false information.
One file. The whole family.
The $1,000,000 contribution is flat across the family. Each additional applicant is the $999 marginal fee, with no headcount cap.
On the same application
Added on the same application with an apostilled marriage certificate plus shared-address proof. Only the $999 marginal fee applies.
Under 18, and dependent students to 25
Children under 18 are automatically included at $999 each. Children aged 18 to 25 qualify if financially dependent and enrolled full-time.
Dependents in the ascending line
Parents and grandparents may be included if financially dependent, at $999 each.
Adding to the family later
A new spouse must be added at initial application. Other dependents are $999 each with no headcount cap. Newborns to a citizen receive automatic citizenship by descent.
Four things we will not do.
An honest advisor is most useful at the edges of what is possible. These four limits are fixed, and we state them before you engage.
We do not pre-approve Bitcoin Office due diligence.
We are a licensed agent under Director Stacy Herbert's authorization, not the screening authority. Files survive or fail on their own merit; we file the strongest possible package and the Bitcoin Office decides.
We do not propose ways around the BTC/USDT-only requirement.
The settlement asset is the program. If you want to convert from fiat first, that conversion happens before we engage; we do not coordinate it for you.
We do not rush the on-chain provenance package.
The $1,000,000 contribution requires a complete UTXO-level history of the source funds; we will not file a thin source-of-wealth narrative because the timeline pressure is yours, not ours.
We do not pretend governance risk is zero.
El Salvador's Bitcoin policy has shifted under IMF negotiations and could shift again. The $1,000,000 contribution is irreversible; we walk you through the policy timeline before you commit.
What we re-verified, and when.
A dated ledger of every material change and re-verification. If a figure on this page moves, it moves here first.
Mobility source: Henley Passport Index, as of June 2026 (132 destinations, rank #36). henleyglobal.com/passport-index.
Built around Bitcoin. At the sovereign level.
El Salvador is for the Bitcoiner who will not pay $1,000,000 for any other program, because no other program is built around Bitcoin at the sovereign level.
Low time preference does not mean no action. It means making the right move at the right time.