Three African countries now sell citizenship outright, with the price floor below $100,000 for the first time in three decades. Botswana is months away from making it four.
Some CBI programs license their agents, others run open markets. The same warning signs separate the careful from the careless either way.
Eleven months after creating the agency, Argentina puts someone at the desk. The program itself remains undefined.
Judge found authorities ignored investor’s submissions, misread the criminal timeline, and never examined statelessness.
CIP Turkey on why the Gulf’s property correction is accelerating demand for Turkish citizenship, and why the window to act at $400,000 will not stay open.
Caribbean aliases, Dubai villas, a sanctioned oil network, and a slain father’s concealed political ties.
The evaluation recommended a winner in March. Six weeks later the tender was dead after two losing bidders had filed challenges.
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.
Remote passport issuance is a win, but the nation has also frozen adult dependent passports for the time being.
Six continents, six fastest routes to a new passport. CBI programs dominate where they exist. Where they do not, naturalization timelines decide the race.
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.
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.
Citizenship Commission chairman says March 9 memo restricting Russian and Sudanese applicants was released in error; both nationalities remain eligible.
Argentina’s CBI evaluation report is out. Four of six bidders were declared inadmissible.
Saint Lucia’s CBI program registered 5,642 applications in 2023-24, up 423%, and London calls the practice “inherently high-risk.”
Argentina has addressed what practitioners called the CBI program’s single largest fiscal obstacle: Automatic tax residency.
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.