Living in Grenada on Income from Elsewhere
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Trinidad and Tobago on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
91 exceptions recorded across 34 countries · none match Trinidad and Tobago to Grenada · Residency on passive income
There is no income threshold, because there is no income-based residence permit. Grenada's Immigration Act has exactly one residence status - the permit of permanent residence in section 24 - and the only things it asks for are good character and a stated intention to live here permanently. No sum of money appears anywhere in the section. What makes the arrangement work for someone living on money from abroad is the tax side rather than the immigration side: income tax reaches only income from sources in Grenada, so a foreign pension, foreign rent or foreign dividends are outside the charge whether or not you become resident. The fee for the permit is EC$1,000 for a CARICOM or Cuban citizen and EC$5,000 for everyone else.
At a glance
- Income threshold
- None
Section 24 of the Immigration Act states two conditions, good character and an intention to reside permanently, and no financial one. No regulation under section 39 adds a figure.
- Permanent residence fee, CARICOM and Cuba
- EC$1,000
Regulation 2(1) of the Immigration Restriction (Fee for Permanent Residence) Regulations, S.R.O. 16 of 2004.
- Permanent residence fee, everyone else
- EC$5,000
Regulation 2(2) of the same Regulations.
- Qualifying period before applying
- None stated
Section 24 imposes no prior residence. The time requirement appears only later, at the citizenship stage.
- Absence that puts the permit at risk
- 3 years continuously outside Grenada
Section 25(1)(a) of the Immigration Act. The Minister may revoke on that ground; it is a power, not an automatic lapse, and subsection (2) requires notice and a hearing first.
- Tax on foreign income
- Outside the charge
Section 8 of the Income Tax Act makes the assessable income of a resident the amounts accrued from all sources in Grenada. See the tax record.
Requirements
- Good character
- A statement in the application of your intention to reside permanently in Grenada
- An application in the prescribed manner to the Minister responsible for immigration
- The fee: EC$1,000 for a citizen of a CARICOM country or Cuba, EC$5,000 for anyone else
- While you wait, lawful status as a visitor - up to twelve months from entry, extended at EC$75 a month
In detail
One status, no money test
Readers arriving from almost any other country in this comparison expect a menu: a rentier visa, a passive income visa, a pensioner category, each with a monthly figure attached. Grenada has none of that. The Immigration Act contains a single residence status, the permit of permanent residence, and section 24 asks for good character and an intention to reside permanently and nothing else. We looked for a regulation setting conditions or a sum under the section 39 regulation-making power and found five subsidiary instruments, none of which does. What exists instead is an unreviewable ministerial discretion over a short statutory test, with a fee fixed by nationality.
The real attraction is in the tax Act, not the immigration Act
Section 8 of the Income Tax Act defines the assessable income of a resident as the amounts accrued from all sources in Grenada. The same words define the assessable income of a non-resident. Nothing in the Act brings foreign-source income of a resident into charge. A person living in Grenada on a foreign pension, foreign investments or foreign rent is therefore outside the income tax altogether, and this is a feature of the charging provision rather than a concession that has to be claimed or renewed. It is also the reason the immigration side has never needed an income threshold: the state is not trying to establish that you can support yourself out of money it can tax.
Waiting as a visitor
There is no bridging status while a permanent residence application is considered, and the Act fixes no time within which the Minister must decide. In practice the applicant waits as a visitor, and the visitor ceiling is twelve months from entry rather than twelve months from the last extension. The extension fee of EC$75 a month, raised from EC$25 in November 2019, is the running cost of waiting.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may grant a permit of permanent residence to any person who applies for the same in the prescribed manner and who—»The two conditions that follow are good character and a stated intention to reside permanently. There is no third.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Where a permit of permanent residence is granted to a person under this section the Minister may then, or on subsequent application by such person, endorse the permit to relate also to any one or more of his or her dependants.»Dependants are covered by endorsement rather than by their own applications. The Act's definition of dependant in section 2 is narrow and dated: a wife, and children or adopted children under sixteen.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«subsequent to the grant of such permit has been ordinarily resident outside Grenada continuously for a period of three years;»A continuous-absence rule, not a presence quota. Three separate absences of two years each do not engage it; one of three years does.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«No order shall be made by the Minister in exercise of the power conferred by subsection (1) unless the person against whom the order is proposed to be made has been first given a notice in writing of the grounds on which it is proposed to be made and has been afforded an opportunity to be heard.»Revocation is a reasoned decision with a hearing, which makes the three-year rule much less automatic than it reads.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(1) Citizens of CARICOM Countries and Cuba shall pay for a permit of permanent residence a fee of one thousand dollars.»Cuba is grouped with CARICOM here and nowhere else in the immigration legislation. The same pairing appears in the work permit fee schedule.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(2) Persons other than those mentioned in subregulation (1) shall pay for a permit of permanent residence a fee of five thousand dollars.»Fixed in 2004 and unchanged in anything we read through 2026.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(a) where the person is a resident, all amounts ascertained in accordance with Part V, accrued directly or indirectly from all sources in Grenada; and»The words are identical to paragraph (b), which deals with non-residents. Residence changes nothing about what is taxed, only about allowances and rates.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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Practical notes
The statement that no income-based residence category exists rests on the Immigration Act read in full - thirty-nine sections, with section 24 the only grant of residence - together with its five printed subsidiary instruments and the four amending Acts of 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2021. We did not survey every Statutory Rule and Order ever made under section 39.
Nothing in the Act says how long the Minister may take, and no appeal lies against a refusal of permanent residence. Section 35 gives a limited right of appeal against deportation, restriction and security orders, and nothing corresponding for section 24.
The permit of permanent residence is a creature of the Immigration Act and is a different thing from the permanent residence by investment in the Citizenship by Investment Act, which has its own statutory scheme and its own fees. Material that uses the two interchangeably is wrong about both.
Section 25(1)(d) still provides for revocation of a dependent wife's endorsement on the ground that she has begun to live apart from her husband. It is on the face of the consolidated Act and we record it because a reader is entitled to know what the statute says, not because we know it is applied.
- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 145, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesIncome Tax Act, Chapter 149, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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