For many years, I have warned investors that acquiring a Saint Kitts & Nevis Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport was the equivalent of painting a bull's-eye on their backs, because the use of SKN passports greatly increased their risk of being labeled a high risk by American law enforcement agencies and regulators, as well as the global financial community. This nightmare for the buyers of these second passports has now, unfortunately, come to pass, as the US State Department has categorized Saint Kitts, along with Yemen and other jurisdictions abroad, as a threat to National Security on the grounds of terrorism. Under American law, there is nothing worse than the claim of terrorism to target any individual, given the potential life sentence that a criminal conviction under anti-terrorism laws carries with it, and now this threat has been directly leveled at Saint Kitts & Nevis.
The United States, by connecting Saint Kitts to terrorism, reminds us of the illicit narcotics trafficking relationship, between Iran/Venezuela and South American drug cartels, Hezbollah and its transnational money launderers and terrorist financiers, that Kittitian and other Caribbean leaders knew very well was when they sold CBI passports to/ Saint Kitts CIU intentionally approved criminal applicants, all of whom they knew were not only unsuitable for passport ownership, but who represented a Clear and Present Danger to the national security of the United States.
To add to the urgency of the situation, the sixty day period set by the Department of State for Saint Kitts to reform its passport sales process was this week arbitrarily shortened by President Trump; it expired yesterday, with no reply from the Kittitian government of Prime Minister Terrance Drew, and immediate adverse consequences are imminently expected. Trump himself this week personally shortened the deadline from 60 days to three.
Holders of Saint Kitts & Nevis CBI passports are urged to cease and desist from using them for any purpose, including international travel and bank account opening procedures, as such actions may have serious legal consequences, including being detained by immigration or customs authorities, deportation or even arrest at international airports of arrival, and the refusal of international banks to open accounts for them. Whether there will be unofficial commercial blacklisting of SKN passport holders we cannot say, but you are urged to consult competent legal counsel before contemplating further use of these passports, and should consider destroying them. You Were Warned, ladies and gentlemen.