{"id":48692,"date":"2011-11-14T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=48692"},"modified":"2012-04-10T00:59:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:59:48","slug":"economic-citizenship-program-designed-to-attract-investors-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/economy-development\/economic-citizenship-program-designed-to-attract-investors-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic citizenship program designed to attract investors &#8211; PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44411\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44411\" title=\"Skerrit\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Skerrit1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Skerrit1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Skerrit1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Skerrit1.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says Dominica\u2019s economic citizenship program is designed to attract investors to Dominica, and applications for economic citizenship must be \u201cheavily scrutinised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program topped discussions on the Dominica Labour Party\u2019s Next Level radio program last Saturday, amidst claims that wanted Indian national Darwood Ibrahim, has obtained a Dominican passport, through the economic citizenship program.<\/p>\n<p>Skerrit said applications for economic citizenship of the Commonwealth of Dominica must go through the due diligence agency for extensive research before it\u2019s approved. If the investigation is \u201cnot satisfactory\u201d, the applicant will not be allowed to obtain citizenship under the program, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen that report comes back to us, if there is any adverse report, as minor as it may be, the application is terminated at that point, so the interview panel does not bother itself in interviewing thatperson,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>If the due diligence report is satisfactory, an interview panel comprising the attorney general and staff of the Financial Services Unit among others,\u00a0 speaks with the applicant, who can then be rejected, based on response, according to Skerrit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if the due diligence comes back that you\u2019re squeaky clean, and during the interview, by the interview panel, they find that you\u2019re uncomfortable in the manner in which you may have answered some questions, they may not recommend you to be a citizen,\u201d the Prime Minister said. \u201cReports coming to me indicate that the interview panel is very very rigourous in its approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Applications, once recommended for approval, must be forwarded to the minister of finance who can also deem applications unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Skerrit emphasized that the process of obtaining economic citizenship of the Commonwealth of Dominica is \u201cnot done only by one agency\u201d.\u00a0 The ministry of immigration must also see the applications for the processing of a naturalization certificate,\u00a0 once they have been approved by the minister of finance.<\/p>\n<p>Once naturalization certificate is signed by minister for immigration and national security, the application is passed on to the Chief Immigration Officer, where it is also \u201cheavily scrutinised\u201d, according to Skerrit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven at the chief immigration officer\u2019s department, it is heavily scrutinized to ensure that all the documents are there,\u201d he pointe out.<\/p>\n<p>Dominica began its economic citizenship program in the 1990s under the Dame Mary Eugenia Charles administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says Dominica\u2019s economic citizenship program is designed to attract investors to Dominica, and applications for economic citizenship must be \u201cheavily scrutinised.\u201d The program topped discussions on the Dominica Labour Party\u2019s Next Level radio program last Saturday,&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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