For Sovereign Individuals and Their Advisors
The blog (which listed no author and provided no evidence) claimed a former CIU head and the developer he now works for defrauded investors.
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Anthony returns for a second term as head of Grenada’s CIU. His first order of business: Tackling an unprecedented backlog of applications.
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The new CIU chief says he plans to assess the status of the CIU, introduce new investment options, and redefine the program’s target clients.
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Meanwhile, Dominica’s incumbent DLP won 19 out of 21 seats in this week’s general election, which was boycotted by major opposition parties.
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Grenada’s CIU seeks a new CEO, while the Chairman of Vanuatu’s Citizenship Commission has been given leave.
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“We, fundamentally, have no issue accepting Russians,” says Saint Lucia CIU head Mc Claude Emmanuel in an exclusive interview with IMI.
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No more sibling dependents, age restrictions on older dependents, and education requirements for adult children (unless unmarried daughters).
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Russians and Belarusians are excluded again. The suspension, moreover, will have retroactive effect, going back three weeks.
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Antigua & Barbuda’s information minister says his government has offered to let the EU audit the citizenship by investment program.
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Ukrainians – in a grimly ironic twist – remain excluded from the program because of the very belligerence to which they have fallen prey.
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Non-sanctioned Russian and Belarusian investors are officially welcome to apply to Grenada’s citizenship by investment program again.
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Applications, approvals, passport issuances, and investment all more than doubled and set all-time highs. US applicant approvals rose 900%.
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Russian applicants are now suspended from three Caribbean CIPs, Belarusians from two, and Ukrainians from one.
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The CIU has issued a comprehensive list of prohibited promotional behavior, promising to permanently blacklist offenders.
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Les Khan says he will allow the LTO introduced in 2020 to expire at the end of the year, raising the minimum donation for families of four.
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Les Khan on how he’s tackling illegal discounters and developers that don’t build, as well as about the Saint Kitts CIP’s record 2021.
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An email circulated among staff at the Saint Lucia CIU indicates Nestor Alfred’s tenure is coming to a close following a political shake-up.
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On whether he worries for the future of the program under the new government: “At this stage, I don’t have that kind of fear, no.”
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In our annual survey, industry executives identified the Saint Lucia CIU as the most efficient processing unit last year. CIU-boss Nestor Alfred shares details of the turnaround operation in this interview.
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Though costs associated with renegotiations drove a deficit internally in the CIU, Saint Lucia’s CIP has so far raised near US$50m in contributions.
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