{"id":5489,"date":"2015-11-05T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2019-02-12T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:04:18","slug":"saint-lucia-to-offer-citizenship-by-investment-program-in-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/saint-lucia-to-offer-citizenship-by-investment-program-in-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Lucia To Offer Citizenship Investment Program in January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning January 1, 2016, St Lucia will begin offering\u00a0citizenship through investment<\/a> to wealthy investors. It will become the fifth Caribbean country to promote a citizenship by investment program, joining Antigua and Barbuda<\/a>, St. Kitts and Nevis<\/a>, Grenada and Dominica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Saint Lucia Citizenship by-Investment Immigration<\/p><\/div>\n

In the Caribbean, countries like Dominica<\/a> and St. Kitts and Nevis<\/a> are tapping into new investment and revenue streams through economic citizenship. Economic citizenship has been embraced by a handful of countries as a source of substantial capital inflow. Yet it has evoked mixed response from its citizens. For many, the idea of finding new ways of attracting investment is appealing, given the country\u2019s large debt load.\u00a0 Government officials have stated that effective security measures will be a priority.<\/p>\n

The St Lucia citizenship by investment program<\/a>\u00a0will require a minimum net worth of US $3M for applicants to qualify.\u00a0 Applicants will be required to invest in a choice of asset classes, including US $200,000 in a government economic fund, US $300,000 in real estate, US $500,000 in government bonds or US $3.5M in a business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beginning January 1, 2016, St Lucia will begin offering\u00a0citizenship through investment to wealthy investors. It will become the fifth Caribbean country to promote a citizenship by investment program, joining Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Dominica. In the Caribbean, countries like Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis are tapping into new investment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hnWW-1qx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}