A small number of UK investor visas (tier1) has been issued to the Caribbean countries. The UK remains the most popular golden visa scheme in the world requiring £2m pounds investment.
How many tier1 investor visas issued to the Caribbean?
According to the latest statistics released by Home office, St Kitts and Nevis leads the list in the number of tier1 investor visas issued to the Caribbean followed by Dominica. This also goes on to show presence of millionaire citizens from St Kitts investing in UK golden visas.
Please note the top two recipients Dominica and St Kitts and Nevis run citizenship by investment schemes. No applications have been received from Grenada and St Lucia.
Tier1 | Main | Family | Total | Refused |
Dominica | 14 | 34 | 48 | 2 |
Antigua | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
St Kitts & Nevis | 32 | 72 | 104 | 4 |
Bahamas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Trinidad | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Dominican Rep | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Belize | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
The Home office in its statistics report, said three applications received from Commonwealth of Dominica and one from Antigua in Q4 2019.
From 2014 to the end of 2019, the UK has issued a total of 2,665 visas in five years. The number of visas issued in 2019 is slightly down by 3.7% compared to the previous year.
Tier1 | Issued | Refused |
2014 | 1172 | 98 |
2015 | 192 | 26 |
2016 | 217 | 24 |
2017 | 350 | 17 |
2018 | 374 | 15 |
2019 | 360 | 15 |
Total | 2665 | 195 |