Anticitizen vs Henley & Partners
Henley is the household name in citizenship by investment. Anticitizen is a low-cost membership that covers the same outcomes — plus residency, banking and tax — at roughly 1% of Henley's effective price point. Here's the honest comparison.
Henley & Partners is the firm that arguably invented the modern citizenship-by-investment (CBI) advisory category. It is large, glossy, well-lobbied and well-priced. Anticitizen is a newer, low-cost membership model that covers the same outcomes — and several Henley doesn't really touch, like descent-based passports, freezone setups and offshore banking — at a fraction of the cost.
Pricing — order-of-magnitude different
Henley charges advisory and processing fees that typically run into the five figures on top of the government investment (which itself can be $100k–$2M+). For a single CBI application — say, a Caribbean passport — the all-in advisory cost is commonly $20k–$50k+ before the government contribution.
Anticitizen is roughly $33/month. Members get the same caliber of country-by-country guidance, plus a named caseworker reviewing their file, plus weekly programme updates — and they cover not just CBI but residency, descent claims, banking and tax restructuring. Total annual fee is in the hundreds, not the tens of thousands.
Coverage
- Henley: Strong on Caribbean CBI, Maltese residency, and a handful of European golden-visa programmes. Light or non-existent on descent-based citizenship, offshore banking strategy, freezone setups, and personal tax structuring.
- Anticitizen: Covers Caribbean CBI alongside Italian / Polish / Irish / German citizenship by descent, European residency routes (Spain, Portugal, Greece), Latin American options (Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay), UAE freezones, offshore banking in Georgia, Singapore and Liechtenstein, and personal / company tax restructuring.
Delivery model
Henley is a traditional white-glove advisory firm. You are introduced to a senior consultant, paperwork is coordinated by their team, and you pay accordingly.
Anticitizen is guided do-it-yourself. The playbooks are written by people who have done these processes dozens or hundreds of times. The caseworker reviews your forms, tells you when something is wrong, and points you to the right local lawyer or notary when you genuinely need one. You do the legwork; you keep the money.
Who each is for
Henley makes sense if you want a Caribbean or Maltese CBI specifically, you have $250k–$2M+ of liquid capital to deploy on the government investment, and you would rather pay an extra $30k than handle the paperwork yourself.
Anticitizen makes sense for almost everyone else: entrepreneurs and high earners who want a passport and residency strategy without writing a five-figure advisory cheque, people pursuing descent-based citizenship (which Henley barely touches), and anyone who wants tax and banking handled in the same place as immigration.
What reviewers say
Henley reviews skew toward "competent but expensive". Anticitizen reviews consistently flag value-for-money — comparable outcomes, a named human in your inbox, weekly briefings on legislative change, at a price that is closer to a streaming subscription than a private-bank fee.
Bottom line
Henley & Partners is a fine firm if you want a single high-end CBI and have the capital to ignore the advisory bill. For almost everyone else — and certainly for anyone who wants residency, descent, banking and tax handled together — Anticitizen delivers the same category of outcome at roughly 1% of the effective advisory cost.