Dominica revokes citizenship of 68 persons through CBI programme
Published:Tuesday | July 30, 2024 | 2:43 PM
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Roosevelt Skerrit-led government has revoked the citizenship of 68 people who were granted citizenship through Dominica's Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI) between 2020 and 2022.
The revocation notice was published in the gazette on June 6, although the notice signed by Minister for Citizenship, Miriam Blachard, is dated May 26
Speaking on the sidelines of the 47th Caricom Head of Government meeting which concludes in Grenada on July 30, Skerritt said his government will take action on anyone who is discovered to have provided inaccurate information to obtain Dominica's citizenship.
“The law guides with that and we [will take] the required action,” he said.
Dominica's passport is valid for five years and the Citizenship Act says that any person who obtains its citizenship can be deprived of it on two grounds.
The first is if it was obtained through registration or certificate of naturalisation by means of fraud, false representation or the concealment of a material fact; and secondly if it is not conducive that a person continues to be a citizen of Dominica. The list includes nationals from Nigeria, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Syria and Afghanistan.
In January 2023, Skerrit announced that his government had raised over $450 million from the Citizenship By Investment Programme for years 2021 to 2022.
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