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Grenada Publishes Sweeping Amendments to its Citizenship by Investment Act

Grenada’s government has just published a wide set of amendments to its Citizenship by Investment Act of 2013.

No citizenship by investment program has undergone a more comprehensive transformation in the last six months than that of Grenada:

Want to know more about the Grenada CIP? Visit its Program Page to see statistics, recent articles, approved agents, approved projects, official links, and more.

On Friday, Grenada’s House of Representatives and its Senate ratified a host of amendments (published yesterday) that formally set into law many of the announced modifications.

Notable changes, in plain English, include:

  • The removal of the requirement to obtain permanent residence prior to citizenship.
  • Raising the age limit for child dependents from 26 to 30 years of age.
  • Removing the requirement for child dependents to be enrolled in an educational institution.
  • Removal of age restrictions for qualifying as parents or grandparents.
  • Removal of the requirement for parent/grandparent dependents to live with the main applicant.
  • Addition of a formal regulation to retain the approved investment for five years following naturalization.
  • Addition of a formal regulation to permit those who obtain citizenship by the purchase of real estate to re-sell the same real estate to new CIP-applicants. ‘Real estate’ in this context – as it is not otherwise specified – would include freehold, leasehold, real estate trust certificates, timeshare, fractionals and so on. In any case, a new CIP-investor who wishes to qualify for citizenship through the purchase of real estate from an already naturalized CIP-investor may only do so once the original CIP-investor has maintained the investment for five years.
  • Addition of unmarried siblings above the age of 18 as a qualifying dependent.
  • Addition of children of the main applicant or spouse born within 12 months of approval as a qualifying dependent.

See the original Citizenship by Investment Act from 2013 here.

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See the recently published amendments here.

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Christian Henrik Nesheim AdministratorKeymaster

Christian Henrik Nesheim is the founder and editor of Investment Migration Insider, the #1 magazine – online or offline – for residency and citizenship by investment. He is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, documentary producer, and writer on the subject of investment migration, whose work is cited in the Economist, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, and Business Insider. Norwegian by birth, Christian has spent the last 16 years in the United States, China, Spain, and Portugal.

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