Moving to St. Vincent & Grenadines from Australia

Our residency index: 60/100, possible, with conditions. It is our own rating of how realistic long-term residency in St. Vincent & Grenadines is for Australian citizens, based on the routes St. Vincent & Grenadines publishes. Residency is obtained through a discretionary residency permit from the Office of the Prime Minister (Residency Department) that requires proof of current financial resources or a local sponsor plus modest fixed fees, with no published income or investment threshold; a citizenship-by-investment program is planned for mid-2026 but is not yet live (EC dollar pegged at US$1 = EC$2.70).

Our dataset has no self-funded income or savings threshold for St. Vincent & Grenadines. Check the official requirements before you apply.

For short visits, Australian passport holders can visit visa-free for up to 90 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 Australian 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. Kingstown

   65% match

   Est. cost

   €2,644/mo

   Avg temp

   27°C

   Safety index

   62/100

Our estimate for a couple living centrally in Kingstown is €2,644 a month. For comparison, we estimate €4,094 a month in Melbourne. Use these figures to compare places rather than to set a budget.

St. Vincent & Grenadines is in our low to medium tax tier (moderate personal income tax); Australia 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 Australia after you leave, or the treaty between the two countries, so check both with a tax adviser before you move.

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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 Australian 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.