Antigua and Barbuda has one the most popular and well established citizenship by investment programme in the Caribbean.
The CIP was launched in Oct 2013. Since its inception the government has published full statistics report of the CIP making it one of the most transparent schemes in the Caribbean.
The CIP statistics reveals how many applications received for citizenship, nationalities approved, investments in real estate and expenses by government from operating CIP account.
- A total of 1,547 CIP applications received from inception to Jun 2018
- Between Jan-Jun 2018, 85 applications received from China, 17 from Russia, 27 from Syria, 13 from Turkey
- 93% of applications received in 2018 for NDF
- A combined total of 248 real estate applications received (16%) from inception
- A total of 187 applications received for business investment
Breakdown by country applications for citizenship by investment from 2013 to 2018
- China – 625
- Lebanon – 64
- Bangladesh – 67
- Russia – 73
- Syria – 85
- Libya – 49
- USA – 39
- Pakistan – 38
In 2017 the Antigua government published full list of diplomatic passport holders
