TURKEY CANCELS SAINT KITTS & NEVIS VISA-FREE ENTRY, IMPOSES VISA RESTRICTIONS OF ONE TYPE OR ANOTHER ON ALL EASTERN CARIBBEAN CBI STATES, FOLLOWING EUROPEAN UNION LEGISLATION

The Government of Turkey (a/k/a Turkiye) has revoked its Mutual Visa Waiver Agreement with Saint Kitts & Nevis, and has also taken action against other Caribbean jurisdictions, which may indicate that it is the beginning of a trend. It also ruled that citizens of Dominica must hereafter obtain a visa to enter the country. There are other restrictions on Grenada, Saint Lucia and Antigua & Barbuda; they are also no longer allowed visa-free entry; they can qualify for an e-visa, which requires application and approval, after a records check, and any other screening procedure that Turkey wishes to institute. Whether e-visas for CBI/CIP passport holders will be declined is a question being asked, but no answers have been forthcoming.

Whether the recent EU action, and the ECJ ruling which essentially closed down Malta's IIM (CBI) Program, for lack of a sufficient connection between the applicants and the country whose citizenship they were acquiring, cause additional nations to revoke the visa-free arrangements that the five eastern Caribbean CBI & CIP states enjoy, is a question the lips of everyone in the Investment Migration industry, whose members receive a substantial, and in some cases clearly excessive, commission for brokering the sales of Caribbean citizenships for Saint Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Grenada. Is the honeymoon of CBI sales about to end for the five EC states.