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Antigua and Barbuda, along with Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia, are moving to tighten regulation of their citizenship by investment (CBI) schemes.
A draft agreement dated 1 July 2025 outlines plans to establish the Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority (EC CIRA), aimed at standardising and strengthening oversight of the programmes.
Key proposals include a mandatory 30-day residency requirement within the first five years of citizenship, annual application caps, and a compulsory integration programme covering civic education and cultural orientation.
The EC CIRA would centralise regulatory powers, monitor compliance, and investigate breaches—replacing the current country-led oversight.
Enhanced due diligence is also planned, with all applicants, including dependents, subject to interviews and stricter background checks. The reforms are intended to preserve the integrity and value of Eastern Caribbean citizenship.
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This is exactly the kind of regulation we need to protect the integrity of our citizenship and ensure it isn’t treated like a commodity.
Isn’t this going to make the programs less competitive? Other countries are already attracting investors without so many restrictions.
Better work to ensure we ain’t get blacklisted. The US is the only place we can go to do alittle cheap shopping
30 days in five years is an absolute nonsense!! Perhaps 30 days per year would be more aceptable, but 30s in 5 years does not assist, nor show any kind of of loyalty to the chosen Island.
Yeah right!
😂. So who would be enforcing these amendments? I bet it will be the same crooks(lawyers/politicians) who have the CIP is as problematic as it is now.
But hey there is hope. 😂
When TRUMP and MAGA make their requests (blaze fire under these politicians feet) even though, they’re overstepping their bounds regarding sovereign Nations like those in the Caribbean look how these Caribbean politicians jump.