Dominica requires in-person passport collection for all CBI applicants

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has confirmed that all Citizenship by Investment applicants must now visit Dominica in person to collect their passport. The mandatory in-country pickup is the latest step in a broader Eastern Caribbean realignment of CBI due-diligence standards, intensified after the US Department of State updated reciprocity schedules in February to cap B-1/B-2 visas for Dominican nationals at three months and single entry, down from the previous ten-year multi-entry standard.

The Skerrit administration has separately moved on hurricane-season public preparedness messaging as the 2026 Atlantic season opened, and the country’s CBI revenue is being redirected toward longer-horizon climate-resilience infrastructure consistent with Dominica’s published climate-resilient development plan.

For the diaspora and any prospective applicants in the CBI pipeline, the in-person collection rule materially extends processing time and travel cost. The practical read: clients on remote-only assumptions need their files revisited, and the broader Caribbean CBI sector is being repositioned around residency and physical presence rather than purely financial qualification.

Source: Associates Times / St Lucia Times CBI coverage; IMI Daily; Travel and Tour World.