Iraqis, Iranians and Syrians are among a list of 68 individuals whose CBI passports were canceled by Dominica on the grounds that they were obtained through fraudulent means.
An order signed by the Minister responsible for Citizenship, Miriam Blanchard, said that the actions of the individuals were not “conducive” for them to be citizens of Dominica. It was gazetted on June 2, 2024 but is now becoming public knowledge.
The document stated that the individuals “obtained registration or certificate of naturalization by means of fraud, false representation or the concealment of a material fact.”
The passports and citizenship were obtained between November 2019 and May 2022.
The document shows that most of the 68 passports canceled were obtained by people from the Middle East, with the majority, 53 percent, from Iraq. The others were Pakistanis 21%, Egyptians and Iranians 6% each, Nigerians and Syrians 4% each, and Afghans 3%. The passports of one Sudanese and one Jordanian were also revoked.
The move comes following pressure from the European Union (EU) Commission which has publicly expressed concerns over CBI programs in the Caribbean. In a meeting held in Dominica on Monday, 22 January 2024, with Caribbean CBI countries, EU representatives warned that travel privileges could be among the consequences if the concerns are not addressed. They also expressed apprehension over Dominica’s low-cost/high-volume model of its Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program.
Soon after that Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis, and Grenada signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which they say is aimed at strengthening their CBI Programs. They also agreed to raise the minimum fee for a passport to US$200,000.
The move to cancel the passports of the 68 individuals is being hailed as a good one.
Online migration industry newspaper, Investment Migration Insider (IMI), quoted Phillipe May, founder and CEO of Global investment migration firm, EC Holdings, as saying that it is “good that a CBI country is taking action against fraudulent applicants.”
He told the newspaper that such applicants are often being “mishandled by rogue, unlicensed immigration service providers” who bait them with low initial fees.
May also told IMI that the applicants may not have acted intentionally but “at the behest of their crooked service provider.”
Click on the link below to read the full order.
Good action but still need to check more people, (fix a problem better than overlook it)
People traveling on a Dominican passport should be denied entry to the USA and European countries.
why? Which nation do you think is more corrupt? Dominica or America? Meanwhile Americans allowed to go anywhere?
All passports issued for the last 20 years while Skerrit has been PM should be cancelled and new tamper proof passports issued to real Dominicans notably people born on the island.
So if I go to a dealership and the sales man sells me a car for 15K that is listed on thier website for 50K after he did my credit check and signed on documents that he was willing to sell for me at that price the manager of the dealership is going take take my car back and ban me from the dealership? Will he do nothing to that sales man if he made the same kind of sale to 67 other people? he will continue to keep his job even if the manager of the dealership explicitly said cars have to be sold at listed online price. How is that the fault of customer if the seller was willing to sell at a discount? Here is the deal. Skerrit thinks because he occupies an office that confers power to him he can do as he pleases. These money hungry thieves knee exactly what they were doing. From the looms of things they were selling citizenship before due delligence was done or completed. it’s all about money for thier pockets. now tell me what should the manager do to the car salesman?
So if I go to a dealership and the sales man sells me a car for 15K that is listed on thier website for 50K after he did my credit check and signed on documents that he was willing to sell for me at that price the manager of the dealership is going take take my car back and ban me from the dealership? Will he do nothing to that sales man if he made the same kind of sale to 67 other people? he will continue to keep his job even if the manager of the dealership explicitly said cars have to be sold at listed online price. How is that the fault of customer if the seller was willing to sell at a discount? Here is the deal. Skerrit thinks because he occupies an office that confers power to him he can do as he pleases. These money hungry thieves knew exactly what they were doing. From the look of things they were selling citizenship before due delligence was done or completed. it’s all about money for thier pockets. now tell me what should the manager do to the car salesman?
the money drying up. Best due diligence? oh ok. Having to revoke passports doesnt look good for our program.
So Al Jazeera was telling the truth? I swear everyone knew it was vohleh and criminal that was buyung our passport and Skerro was building his house with it.
When Roosevelt Skerrit and Labour party are finished with destroying the good name of Dominica and the friendly reputation of Dominicans overseas, we shall all be ashamed to call our selves Dominicans!
Just like Haitians today, we will soon rather say that we are from some other country than Dominica because of the corruption and negativity now associated with Dominica and being Dominican! But the Frenchman and his American wife and children will be fine!
Hope you all are also looking at the Karmapa Llama passport to be revoked as well. I wrote to you all and you all ignored that call.
I wrote to the Speaker of the House, the Minister of National Security, President of Dominica, Foreign Minister, Attorney General, Prime Minister to inform them of what I discovered. You all did not FART on ME.
Also you all can begin the diplomatic passports as well. What we can see is that all the official funerals, ceremonies and NOT ONE of these guys ae in attendance. What is going on.
I am just looking.
Unsurprising! What you think will happen when the Dominica passports are sold on the streets of the Middle East like black-pudding on a Saturday?
This Roosevelt led mal-administration only does one thing well, win elections by fraudulent means (cheat well). This exactly what happens when sleazebags, slimeballs dirtbags, scumbags and skunks running a country. WIDESPREADCORRUPTION
Going forward you cannot expect those who have destroyed the moral fabric of Dominica and indelibly stained its image to restore its once pristine reputation.
After twenty four years of abusive, divisive, oppressive governance, the people hanker for a transformation to a competent, impartial, enterprising, unifying government.
I alone cannot change the present government of Dominica, but I can start a movement, cast a vote, that would precipitate its downfall.
Great move, PM! Leadership in action.
DLP and their blood sucking hyenas in my land MUST go like yesterday!
