St Lucia vs Dominica Citizenship by Investment

Since the St Lucian government re-launched their citizenship by investment scheme in January 2017, the programme has been a strong contender for the lowest priced scheme in the Caribbean, competing directly against the Dominica CBI programme.

Both schemes offer a competitive donation option, starting at just $100,000 for a single applicant, making both of these options the lowest priced second passport programmes on the market.

For many years, Dominica has been a firm favourite amongst investors looking for a cost effective route to Citizenship and visa free travel. However St Lucia now just takes the title as the lowest priced option with fractionally cheaper processing fees.

For a single applicant choosing the donation route in St Lucia, the additional processing costs and donation will come to a total of roughly $144,630 as opposed to Dominica where the overall cost will work out around $147,450

The real estate investment option in Dominica still remains to be the more popular option with the required investment threshold set at just $200,000 as opposed to the proposed $300,000 in St Lucia. The St Lucian Government are still to approve a selection of real estate projects for this investment route and this is expected in the first half of 2017.

Second passports in both commonwealth countries will enable investors to travel freely to over 150 countries including the EU Schengen zone and also the UK. Visa free travel to other popular destination such as Hong Kong and Singapore is also a major benefit for many. The whole process will take just 3- 4 months to obtain citizenship in either country making them the quickest citizenship by investment options on the market.

If you would like to find out more about either option in Dominica or St Lucia, please do not hesitate to contact our experts today.