{"id":93157,"date":"2019-12-30T22:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T02:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=93157"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:04:38","slug":"china-immigrants-account-for-most-of-new-cip-citizens-in-first-half-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/china-immigrants-account-for-most-of-new-cip-citizens-in-first-half-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Immigrants Account For Most Of New CIP Citizens In First Half Of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Citizen By Investment (CIP) figures have been released for the first half of 2019 and it reveals that China accounts for most of the new CIP citizens with 71 people being registered.<\/p>

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In total, two hundred and forty-one (241) people became Citizen By Investment (CIP) registered citizens of Antigua and Barbuda during the first half of 2019 alone.<\/p>\n

Apart from China, the other major recipients were from the following countries: Bangladesh (19), Libya (17), Russia (16), Syria (13), Lebanon (12), Nigeria (10) and Egypt (9).<\/p>

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During that six-month period, there were also two applicants from Iraq, one of seven countries banned from applying for Antigua and Barbuda citizenship. These applicants are likely to be permanent\u00a0residents of Canada, the United States of America or the United Kingdom, as that is the only exception to the 2017 ban.<\/p>

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According to documents outlining applications under the CIP from January 1st to June 30th, 2019, these people all received citizenship, most of them through the National Development Fund (NDF) option.<\/p>\n

This option is used to fund government sponsored projects, including public-private partnerships and approved charitable investments.<\/p>

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According to the document, investments by NDF account for 96.68 percent of the applicants, meaning that 233 people paid a minimum one-time payment of between US$100,000 to US$125,000 per application to become citizens in the state.<\/p>\n

Five people (2.07 percent) applied under the real estate option (US$ 400,000 or more) and three (1.24 per cent) under the business investment option (US $1.5 million and above).<\/p>

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An estimate of the financial contributions, excluding processing fees, total US$30 million dollars (XCD $81m)<\/p>

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The addition, these 241 people brought the number of CIP nationals to 2,188 since the inception of the programme in 2013.<\/p>\n

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