St. Vincent moves on citizenship-by-investment with a residency catch

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, among the last OECS states without one, is advancing a citizenship-by-investment programme that the Godwin Friday administration says will carry a residency requirement and route proceeds through a legislatively ring-fenced investment fund rather than recurrent spending. The government frames it as a “sovereign capital mobilization” tool for development and climate resilience; the opposition questions whether the unit has the staff and structure to run it, and the EU has signalled growing scrutiny of such schemes. For a diaspora attentive to passport mobility and national finances, it is a policy worth tracking as the details firm up.

Source: IMI Daily, iWitness News (2026).