LAW INTRODUCED TO PERMANENTLY BAN PASSPORT HOLDERS FROM ANTIGUA AND DOMINICA FROM ENTERING THE UNITED STATES; RONALD SANDERS TRIES TO STOP IT

 

The Third World Immigration Moratorium Act, which was introduced by Representative Nancy Mace, and is pending before the United States Congress, specifically states that, in the Caribbean, citizens of ANTIGUA, DOMINICA and HAITI are to be permanently blocked from obtaining visas to enter the U.S., except under specific, and very limited and stringent circumstances. This new proposed American legislation, if passed, operates to make the present restrictions against Antigua permanent. The stated  reason, that ANTIGUA is a country of Identified Concern, tracks the previous U.S. State Department Policy Statement, that the country's Citizenship by Investment (CIP) represents a National Security threat to the United States.

Ambassador Ronald Sanders has already take steps to thwart the intentions of American legislators, by writing directly to the Members of the US Congress, claiming that official statements concerning Antigua contain factual errors, especially regarding its CIP program. Given the European Union's policy statement against economic passports, and declaring that there will be NO visa free entry to any country that has a Citizenship by Investment, these programs need to be terminated, and all the Gaston Browne-inspired workarounds notwithstanding, by 2028, or else.

As we have repeatedly warned our readers, things are about to get much worse for Antiguans and Dominicans, and they only have their shortsighted leadership, and themselves as voters, to blame. They had years to reform CBI and now it is surely too late.