What visa does a Grenada passport need for Cape Verde?
🇬🇩 → 🇨🇻 Visa on arrival
Fly first, then apply at the arrival airport. Bring a return ticket and proof of accommodation — the border officer can still refuse you.
Visa rules can change at any time. Confirm with your airline before each flight — the airline is liable if they board a passenger against regulations, so they update fastest. Data verified on 26/07/2026.
The other direction: Cape Verde nationals travelling to Grenada — visa required in advance.
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CAPE VERDE · 14,9330°N 23,5133°W
◉ Praia
CapitalPraia
Population~590,000
CurrencyCVE
ContinentAfrica
ISO codeCV / CPV
Passport rank#62
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Frequently asked questions
The root cause was drought: the islands are arid with no permanent rivers, and prolonged droughts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced famines killing a very large share of the population. Emigration was not a choice about opportunity but survival.
From the early nineteenth century, American whaling ships called at Cabo Verde for water, provisions and crew, and many Cabo Verdeans sailed on them to New England and stayed. The resulting community in Massachusetts and Rhode Island is among the oldest African-descended communities in the United States formed through voluntary migration rather than the slave trade.
The constitution and legislation contain specific provisions on relations with communities abroad, including diaspora representation in parliament — a mechanism very few countries have. It is the only one of the six countries with diasporas larger than their home populations to have turned that into a formal political structure.
Yes, alongside arrangements for people of Cabo Verdean origin abroad. There is no Caribbean-style citizenship-by-investment programme, only investor residence — the two must be called by their correct names.
No. Cabo Verde holds a special partnership agreement with the European Union, but it is a cooperation agreement, not a route to EU citizenship, and should not be sold as one.
Partly because imported fuel costs are so high that renewables became economically rational rather than merely environmentally desirable. For a small island state, renewable energy is not the idealistic option but the cheaper one. Most domestic water on the main islands also comes from seawater desalination.
Cabo Verde's signature musical form, bound to the feeling of sodade meaning longing for home, inscribed on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list and carried to the world by the singer Cesária Évora. Most morna concerns separation, the sea and those who have gone away — a national music built around the experience of emigration itself.
People working in tourism, renewable energy, fish processing or maritime services; or those seeking a stable, safe, Portuguese-speaking retirement base close to Europe — among the few African countries regularly mentioned for this purpose. Not suitable for those targeting the domestic market, as 590,000 is very small.
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