The UK home office published UK tier1 investor visa statistics for the year Q1 2018. The minimum investment required for UK tier1 investor visa category is £2 million pounds which has to be invested in a bank account or government bonds or share capital.
A quick check on the number tier-1 investors visas issued for Caribbean countries, reveals some startling information .
- A total of 30 tier-1 high value investor visas issued for two Caribbean countries, of which 23 received from St Kitts and 7 from Dominica, since the start of the UK investor visa scheme in 2008.
- A total of 71 family dependents from Dominica and St Kitts received UK high value investor visas (tier1)
- In 2017, 2 investors applied for UK investor visas from Saint Kitts paying £2 million pounds.
- No investor visas issued for Saint Lucia, Antigua and Grenada.
All the five Caribbean countries below have active CBI programs.
| Quarter | Antigua and Barbuda | Dominica | Grenada | St. Kitts and Nevis | St. Lucia |
| 2008 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 Q1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2016 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 Q1 | |||||
| Total Result | 0 | 7 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
Family members
A total of 15 family members from Dominica and 56 family members from St Kitts received UK tier1 investor visas.
| Quarter | Antigua and Barbuda | Dominica | Grenada | St. Kitts and Nevis | St. Lucia |
| 2008 Q1 | |||||
| 2008 Q2 | |||||
| 2008 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2010 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2012 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2013 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2013 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2014 Q1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 Q2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 2014 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2015 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2015 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2015 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 2016 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2017 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 Q3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 Q1 | |||||
| Total Result | 0 | 15 | 0 | 56 | 0 |
