Moving to Antigua & Barbuda from Canada

Our residency index: 85/100, comparatively open. It is our own rating of how realistic long-term residency in Antigua & Barbuda is for Canadian citizens, based on the routes Antigua & Barbuda publishes. Long-term residency is realistic via a flat-tax permanent residency programme for the financially independent, a two-year renewable digital nomad permit for remote workers, citizenship by investment, or ordinary residence converting to permanent residency after four years.

The cheapest self-funded routes we track:

• Income: about $8,333 a month (Antigua & Barbuda Permanent Residency Programme (tax residency), USD 100,000/yr minimum income (USD 8,333/mo); holder also pays a USD 20,000/yr flat tax. All figures already in USD, no conversion.; as of June 2026)
• Investment: about $230k (Antigua & Barbuda Citizenship by Investment, National Development Fund donation, USD 230,000 minimum one-time contribution (single applicant). Figure already in USD, no conversion.; as of June 2026)

Check the official requirements before you apply: amounts, conditions and exchange rates change, and what a couple needs can differ from a single applicant's threshold.

For short visits, Canadian passport holders can visit visa-free for up to 180 days, according to the passport-index dataset. Short-stay entry covers visits; living there takes a residence permit.

Ranked by our match model for a typical couple who both hold Canadian passports, using the preset answers of our best places to live list. Your own answers would change the order. We pick the cities, up to five, by how often English Wikipedia readers looked them up over the past year.

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   1. Saint John’s

   69% match

   Est. cost

   €3,007/mo

   Avg temp

   27°C

   Safety index

   65/100

Our estimate for a couple living centrally in Saint John’s is €3,007 a month. For comparison, we estimate €3,991 a month in Toronto. Use these figures to compare places rather than to set a budget.

Antigua & Barbuda is in our zero or very low tax tier (little to no personal income tax); Canada is in our high tax tier (high personal income tax). Tiers describe each country's own income tax. They do not cover tax you may still owe in Canada after you leave, or the treaty between the two countries, so check both with a tax adviser before you move.

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• Moving to Antigua & Barbuda from Australia
• Moving to Antigua & Barbuda from Ireland
• Moving to Antigua & Barbuda from New Zealand

Every country and origin we cover

Every figure here comes from the datasets behind our city and country pages:

• Short-stay entry: the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT license), which records the entry rule for short visits on each passport.
• Residency index, routes and thresholds: the OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. It is a summary, not legal advice.
• City ranking: our match model, the one behind the quiz, run with a typical couple's preset answers and both partners holding Canadian passports. It ranks up to five of the country's best-known cities: of the cities in our quiz (100,000 people or more, capitals and a few towns movers seek out, such as Faro), the five most read about on English Wikipedia over the past year. It folds suburbs into their main city and leaves out countries with a residency index under 40 and areas under a US State Department Level 4 advisory, as our best-cities lists do.
• Costs: our cost model, a country-level cost-of-living index scaled for city size, from our city dataset (last rebuilt June 2026).
• Tax tiers: three coarse bands we assign by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation.