CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT (CIP/CBI) PROGRAMS MUST HAVE REMOTE ADMINISTRATION TO ESCAPE THEIR LEGACY OF CORRUPTION, FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING

The severe visa restrictions that the United States has placed upon ANTIGUA and BARBUDA and the COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA, created due to the unacceptable situation surrounding those states' extensive Economic Citizenship/Citizenship by Investment programs, will not be rescinded so long as the rampant corruption, fraud and money laundering that has infected them since they were organized continues to plague their operation. Just today, we learned that government agencies are being offered bribes by prospective clients, to disregard the information in due diligence reports, and issue the passports to unqualified and high-risk applicants.

Antiguans who are asking when, or even if, the American visa restrictions will be lifted need to understand, as do all the other Eastern Caribbean CBI states, SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS, SAINT LUCIA, DOMINICA and GRENADA, that the US, UK and the EU aren't going to allow the current programs, which they deem unacceptable, for a wide variety of valid reasons, which we have painfully documented, to continue to enjoy their previous privileges for much longer. New European screening programs ( ESTA, ETA, etc.) will serve to block CBI passport holders, whether visa-free travel legally exists or not.

The solution is top-to-bottom reform, and to have the programs administered remotely, with oversight, rather than allow them to continue to wallow in their current unsupervised corruption, which has spawned global financial crime by bad actors with CBI passports. It is the only way to truly conduct effective, and corruption-free due diligence, screening and AML/CFT at the banking best practices level. And we mean administration in a Western country, far from the culture of corruption that has been a feature of life in the English-speaking Caribbean since independence, not moving the programs to an unregulated venue like Dubai, where high-risk applicants can still worm their way into being accepted, as we have seen of late with SAO TOME's remotely-administered program; US or UK-based locations, where strict supervision by regulators can actually occur. Sao Tome''s remote administration is accepting Russian and Iranian applicants, two high-risk, sanctioned jurisdictions; That should not be happening. Remote must be in a controlled environment.

Therefore, without an effective, properly administered CBI program, remotely operated and completely controlled from abroad, and not susceptible to local pressures and opportunities for bribes and kickbacks by greedy governbment officials and staff members, Caribbean CBI faces an existential moment, and the current United States government, no stranger to abrupt and lethal action, will steamroller over the jurisdictions that don't reform through professional. remote operation. Let's see whose Caribbean programs are still acquiring clients in 2028, if they fail to make this move to remote.