{"id":6883,"date":"2016-05-20T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2019-02-12T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:50:45","slug":"citizenship-investment-crucial-us-tells-caribbean-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/citizenship-investment-crucial-us-tells-caribbean-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Due Diligence on Citizenship-by Investment Crucial, US tells Caribbean Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"
The US has told Caribbean nations with citizenship-by-investment programs to make sure each individual application is given the correct level of due diligence.<\/p>\n
Antigua & Barbuda<\/a>, Dominica<\/a>, St Kitts & Nevis<\/a> and St Lucia<\/a> all offer programs which grant passports to candidates in return for specified levels of investment.<\/p>\n Now the US Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados, has issued a statement warning these nations to make sure they are not granting citizenship to undesirables, such as those with ties to criminal or terrorist organisations.<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States strongly believes that all countries have an inherent responsibility to their citizens and the international community to review fully all applicants who seek a nation\u2019s citizenship,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n St Kitts Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris said recently that his country\u2019s program now had the best due diligence<\/a> of any in the world.<\/p>\n This comes following an overhaul of the system in response to a decision by Canada to impose a visa restriction on St Kitts passport holders over concerns about the type of candidates being granted citizenship.<\/p>\n The US also specified its concerned the program was being used to bypass sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that we have now one of the strongest due diligence mechanisms,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n The US statement added that it respected the right of any nation to generate revenue using investment immigration, provided the right checks were being made.<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States does not approve or disapprove individual aspects of citizenship by investment programmes,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the United States Government is willing to consult with governments on their citizenship investment programmes, the ultimate decisions to offer and how to operate such a programme, including the issuance of citizenship and related identifying documents, such as passports to applicants, lie with each individual government and not with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n The US offers its own permanent residency-through-investment program<\/a>, the EB-5, which can lead to citizenship in the long term.<\/p>\n General Information:<\/b> Contact us<\/a> to receive more information about this article.<\/p>\n Further reading<\/b><\/p>\n The US has told Caribbean nations with citizenship-by-investment programs to make sure each individual application is given the correct level of due diligence. Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, St Kitts & Nevis and St Lucia all offer programs which grant passports to candidates in return for specified levels of investment. Now the US Embassy in Bridgetown,…<\/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-1N1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883"}],"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=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n