CHINESE COMPANY IN SPOTLIGHT FOR SELLING ILLEGALLY-DISCOUNTED GRENADA CBI PASSPORTS IS PROMOTING U.S. VISA CAPABILITY

CHINA HENG SHENG DEVELOPMENT [SINGAPORE] PTE LIMITED (HS), one of the Chinese companies that we have identified through its own internal documents, as openly selling illegally-discounted Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports, is hawking Grenada passports as an effective way to gain entry into the United States, which could pose a significant National Security Risk to America. Grenada is unique among the five East Caribbean states that sell Citizenship by Investment schemes, in that country's treaty with the United States allows its citizens to obtain an E-2 Business Investor Visa, which can ultimately lead to an EB-5 immigrant Visa.

(1) HS social media advertises the direct progression available to potential Grenada CIP applicants, through the Grenada passport, to the United States E-2 Visa, which the company appears to promise to prospective clients as a given, or that fees paid in by clients will be FULLY REFUNDED.

(2) Additionally, the company builds in the assignment of a shelf United States corporation, as a part of the package offered to applicants, which contemplates that each applicant will, upon receipt of his or her Grenada citizenship, apply for the US E-2 Visa forthwith.

(3) Given that two of the three sales facilities of HS are in China, being Hong Kong and Chungking( Chongqing), and the Chinese language webpages, it is assumed that Chinese nationals are the target market for HS. Since these clients are being offered discounted citizenships & passports, without any representation that effective due diligence has occurred, there is a well-founded fear that criminal elements, sanctions evaders, terrorist financiers, and foreign intelligence agents will obtain them, under aliases, which is a clear and present danger to the United States. The CBI RICO case in Florida, which alleges a similar set of facts, and whose claims are supported by the arrest of Chinese nationals with CBI passports, all engaged in criminal conduct around the globe, bears out the threat that HS represents.

(4) Our information is that the HS sales of Grenada CBI passports are currently being investigated by the plaintiffs in the RICO lawsuit, as potential additional defendants. Whether HS should contact plaintiffs or their counsel is a question outside the scope of this article, but the facts appear to indicate that there may be issues of liability that deserve further review.

(5) A final question: how is it that the CIU in Grenada, given the overt offering of illegally-discounted citizenships has occurred, and reportedly is still occurring, has not terminated all vendors involved, with prejudice, and cancelled all passports & citizenships improperly issued?