In Japan, naturalization takes effect on the day the official gazette announces it. In Saint Lucia, the law requires that the names of CBI citizens go to Parliament, and the government has left them out since 2019.
All five Eastern Caribbean citizenship by investment programs face a 30-day presence rule that has not started. Most in-person steps in force today, including biometrics, interviews and oaths, can be completed abroad. Vanuatu and Antigua and Barbuda are the exceptions.
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and El Salvador each publish a restricted list, and no two of them name the same countries.
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.
