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.
A government publication has exposed the identities of more than a hundred CBI applicants. The CIU says it had no idea.
Godwin Friday casts the program as a financing mechanism, not a growth engine, with national debt at 113% of GDP.
ClientReferrals takes home CIS26’s Global Excellence Award, announces Basseterre High School Public Benefit Option in SKN.
The brochures advertise three to six months. The IMI Processing Times Tool tells a different story. Here is what each Caribbean CBI program delivers from filing to passport in 2026.
Some CBI programs license their agents, others run open markets. The same warning signs separate the careful from the careless either way.
Caribbean aliases, Dubai villas, a sanctioned oil network, and a slain father’s concealed political ties.
Three settlement blocs, eight metrics. How Mercosur, the EU, and the OECS stack up on mobility, taxation, personal freedoms, rule of law, living costs, citizenship pathways, financial infrastructure, and currency stability for globally mobile investors.
An unnamed Caribbean counterpart estimated EC$200 million in revenue per year; Friday positions CBI within broader economic recovery.
Audited FY24 financials show EC$90 million surplus on EC$240 million revenue; category-level application data withheld for a third year.
Roseau reverses course on a market it reopened just four years ago amid the US-Iran war; however, some caveats still apply.
Existing CBI passports issued before April 14 expire for travel purposes on July 31, 2027 unless holders complete biometric enrollment.
14 months after the first announcement, Wheatley says discussions continue; no thresholds or timeline have been set. Explains why the country will never have a CBI program.
A bitcoin billionaire’s US$100-a-month offer to every Nevisian has split the federation’s politicians. The CBI angle is bigger.
PM Pierre says the country has “no intention of stopping the CIP”; Deputy PM Hilaire rejects any link between the suspension and program.
Saint Lucia’s CBI program registered 5,642 applications in 2023-24, up 423%, and London calls the practice “inherently high-risk.”
The withdrawal closes a chapter that hung over the world’s oldest CBI program for more than a decade; PM Drew credits three years of reform.
Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, and Grenada retain ten-year, multiple-entry terms; only Antigua and Dominica face the downgrade.
Same family, twelve programs, wildly different per-passport costs. The cheapest option depends on how many children you have.
A pioneer born in the 1980s now faces its biggest test; but the value proposition runs deeper than most assume.