Turkey and Cyprus have revoked in the thousands, four programs in the dozens, and five with the thinnest safeguards not at all.
Vanuatu shuts investor citizens out of the ballot for life. St. Kitts closes parliament to them forever. Turkey draws no line at all.
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.
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Turkey, Egypt, and Cambodia pass citizenship down without limit, while three of the five Caribbean programs pass nothing down automatically.
From Athens’ €50,000 Airbnb fines to Dubai’s anything-goes freeholds, what golden visa investors may do with a qualifying property now varies wildly.
One Dominican developer sent the government 14 letters in seven years over illegal discounting. He says no action was taken.
The letter offers a 24-month transition; Browne says all five Caribbean CBI states got one and vows the program will continue.
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.
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Caribbean aliases, Dubai villas, a sanctioned oil network, and a slain father’s concealed political ties.
Roseau reverses course on a market it reopened just four years ago amid the US-Iran war; however, some caveats still apply.
Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, and Grenada retain ten-year, multiple-entry terms; only Antigua and Dominica face the downgrade.
Caribbean CIPs should tighten vetting “pending discontinuation of those schemes,” reads a recent report by the EU Commission.
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Washington agrees to honor existing visas, while Antigua considers a 90-day CBI residency requirement.
Antigua PM calls US travel ban an error, says program presents no risk whatsoever to security. Dominica seeks urgent clarity.
Secret Bay’s occupancy averaged 65% over the past year, rising to 73% in Q1 2025, with ADR increasing 45% year-on-year.
New potential rules could force CBI applicants to stay to play, or risk losing out for failing to prove “genuine links.”
“A residency clause will be part of the new [CBI] law,” Drew emphasized. “Let me say that clearly, residency clause and the biometrics.”
