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Citizenship

Sells citizenship, and with it a passport. Saint Lucia: 1 citizenship programme, open today; 4,456 numbers, 173 prices and rules. Every country's citizenship programmes

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Citizenship by investment programmeCitizenship
Status
Lowest price for one person
Applications received
Applications approved
Donations paid into the government's fund
Last change
Citizenship·Open·since 2015

Citizenship by investment programme

Sells citizenship, and with it a passport.

Official name: Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP Saint Lucia)

Lowest price for one person: US$240,000

National Economic Fund from 1 Jul 2024; the amount covers an applicant with up to three dependants, so a single applicant pays the same. Alternatives: enterprise Option 3 US$250,000 (t-df72f95314), real estate US$300,000 (t-1125ad0c7c), National Action Bond US$300,000 (t-19c9485fef).

Notes from the research

Act No. 14 of 2015; regulations SI 89 of 2015 (2 Oct 2015); CIU operating from Oct 2015; first applications 1 Jan 2016. Fiscal year April-March.

Applications received, per budget year
02k4k6k201720182019202020212022202320242025

The line follows the official figure for each period; faint dots are other sources and earlier versions; a ring marks a period where official sources disagree by more than 2%.

Applications approved, per budget year
01k2k3k201720182019202020212022202320242025

The line follows the official figure for each period; faint dots are other sources and earlier versions.

People who became citizens, per budget year
020040060020172018201920202021

The line follows the official figure for each period; faint dots are other sources and earlier versions.

How they invest

Applicant share, by way of investing, per budget year
Every group in the data is drawn. Each piece is one published number: click it for its source.
0%50%100%150%2020/212021/222022/23
DonationReal estateBondsBonds covid

Prices and rules

Ways in that apply today (minimum amounts)
Fees today

What is measured

  • Programme agency balance sheet1,102
  • Government spending on running a CBI programme615
  • CBI unit revenue354
  • Applications received335
  • Applications approved300
  • Money the programme handed to the government263
  • Programme agency cash flows228
  • Applications turned down159
  • Change in a line of the programme agency's accounts (as printed)105
  • Money the government received from selling citizenship103
  • Investor-programme bonds sold (count)101
  • Government income from selling citizenship, as a share of the economy88
  • and 55 more; see Explore below.
Gaps

What we know is missing

A gap means no figure is in our data: either it was never published or we haven't found or read it yet. Charts leave gaps open rather than drawing across them.

Explore

All the numbers we have for Saint Lucia

4,456 numbers about Saint Lucia's citizenship programmes. Pick a programme and what you want to see. Each dot is one number from one document; click anything to open its source.

Timeline

What happened, and when

Sources

The 62 documents behind this page

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