Godwin Friday says a consultancy is designing a program with heavier due diligence and a central bank monitoring role.
Philip J. Pierre and Gaston Browne told EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner that citizenship by investment finances development in the Eastern Caribbean. Saint Lucia’s account of the meeting announced no change to the June 2028 phase-out date.
The 2028 deadline gets the headlines. The one that bites first is a Commission report due in December, and September feeds it.
A child born after the parent’s citizenship by investment grant is named in no application. Whether that child is a citizen, and what it costs, is decided by 14 nationality laws, not 14 programs. Ten make the child a citizen at birth. Four make the family apply and pay a second time.
Joseph Boll argues the visa-free pitch has run its course, and that US and European families now want a very different conversation.
Dominican citizenship has never made anyone a tax resident, so the flat 10% rate and the end of worldwide taxation reach the retirees and remote workers who move there, rather than the citizens by investment who remain abroad.
IMA Grenada ties the 30-day rule to ECCIRA becoming operational and to a start date all five member states must first agree on.
A record denial rate is one of several findings, alongside a considerable fall in bond applications.
ECCIRA would gain a veto over agent licenses, and any license granted without its no-objection notice would be null and void.
One Dominican developer sent the government 14 letters in seven years over illegal discounting. He says no action was taken.
Four years past the government’s own target date, the bills still carry no investment threshold and no list of qualifying assets.
Ernest Hilaire says Brussels shifted from fixing programs to ending them; Dominica’s opposition puts CBI at 56.7% of recurrent revenue.
Mark Brantley says reform was never going to work and Malta was the warning. Part of his plan for after 2028 is a stalled project.
Browne frames the bill as regional housekeeping rather than a reply to Brussels. Experts agree on the timing but split on the cost.
A first multilateral biometric arrangement for DHS. It sharpens CBI vetting but leaves Proclamation 10998’s visa restrictions untouched.
The Roseau statement never mentions the June 2028 deadline or any refusal; its firmest language concerns the terms of “any transition.”
The letter offers a 24-month transition; Browne says all five Caribbean CBI states got one and vows the program will continue.
If Schengen access goes, Rafael Cintron sees the Caribbean cutting prices and selling harder, Vanuatu-style, not folding.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says successful applicants must now travel to Dominica to receive and renew their passports, ending the program’s no-visit model and moving it in step with neighboring states under US and EU pressure.
From June 15, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Nicaragua lose visa-free access to Ireland. The move follows the UK and runs alongside a hardening EU stance on golden passports.