The European Commission called on EU governments to end national programmes to sell citizenship to investors, also known as golden passports schemes and urged them to suspend the sale of visas to Russians and Belarusians.
The European Commission says some Russian or Belarusian nationals who are subject to sanctions might have acquired EU citizenship or privileged access to the EU, including to travel freely in the Schengen area, under these schemes.
The Commission urged an immediate end to existing national programmes for the sale of passports.
Brussels also said governments should check whether sanctioned people were holding a golden passport or visa they had issued.