Official updates from the Vanuatu National Bureau programme and the COM-approved Task Force.
A plain-language handbook explaining the Vanuatu National Bureau Bill 2026 — the Bureau, the programmes, the citizenship firewall, the economic case and the safeguards — has been prepared for every Member of Parliament, with the full draft Bill annexed for reference.
The legal frameworkThe Vanuatu National Bureau Bill 2026 — a single framework Act consolidating the National Status, Non-Citizen travel document and Digital Residency programmes — is being finalised with Parliamentary Counsel ahead of presentation to Parliament.
How the law is builtThe COM-approved Task Force settled the Drafting Instructions for the Bill, working with the responsible Ministries and the State Law Office — defining the Bureau’s governance, the two-stream revenue model and the integrity framework to be carried into legislation.
Governance & transparencyBy Decision N°273 of 6 October 2025, the Council of Ministers approved the digital-residency and national-status (non-citizen travel-document) programmes, the Vanuatu National Bureau, and the partnership to deliver them — and appointed a Task Force under the Prime Minister’s authority to implement the decision.
About the BureauThe programme direction marks a course-correction for Vanuatu: away from the contested sale of passports of the past, toward a high-integrity model that sells vetted services — a national status with a non-citizen travel document, and a digital residency — while citizenship stays where the Constitution put it: with the people of Vanuatu.
This is not citizenshipFor media enquiries, contact the programme office. Official notices are also published in the Gazette.
