Investing Your Way into Grenada
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Barbados on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
91 exceptions recorded across 34 countries · none match Barbados to Grenada · Residency through investment
Investment in Grenada buys citizenship, and it used to buy permanent residence first. The Citizenship by Investment Act of 2013 was built as a ladder - permanent residence, fourteen days in the country, twelve months, then citizenship - and in 2019 the ladder was taken away: Act 3 of 2019 struck the words that made the citizenship application follow a permanent residence one and repealed the fourteen-day rule outright. Permanent residence by investment still exists in the Act, and the Regulations still price a residence card, but nothing in the scheme now requires anyone to pass through it. Outside that statute there is no investor residence permit at all, and a foreign buyer of land needs a licence from the Minister or forfeits the land to the Government.
At a glance
- Investor residence permit outside the investment citizenship statute
- None
The Immigration Act's only residence grant is the permit of permanent residence in section 24, which has no investment limb. Nothing in the Act, its subsidiary legislation or the four amending Acts creates an investor category.
- Permanent residence first
- No longer required
Section 10(1) of the Citizenship by Investment Act had the application made for permanent residence and subsequently for citizenship; Act 3 of 2019 deleted those words and repealed subsection (2) with them.
- Days of residence before citizenship
- None
Section 10(2)(b) required fourteen days after obtaining permanent residence. Act 3 of 2019 repealed subsection (2) in full, with effect from 24 May 2019.
- Grenada Permanent Residence Card
- US$1,000
A row in Schedule I inserted by S.R.O. 13 of 2019. It survived the 2024 substitution of the investment table because that substitution replaced only the qualifying-investment table.
- Holding period on an approved project investment
- 5 years
Section 11(3) of the Citizenship by Investment Act, inserted by Act 3 of 2019. Section 11A(5A) does the same for a significant investment; the figure was three years when section 11A was inserted in 2014.
- Land held by an unlicensed foreigner
- Forfeited to the Government
Section 3(1) of the Aliens (Land-Holding Regulation) Act. The Act's definition of alien includes a Grenadian-incorporated company under alien control.
- Land a foreigner may hold without a licence
- Up to 5 acres, annual tenancy or less
Section 3(2)(a), and only for the person's own residence, trade or business. Anything longer or larger needs the licence.
- Stamp duty on the land-holding licence
- EC$25
Section 18(1) of the Aliens (Land-Holding Regulation) Act. No percentage of the purchase price appears anywhere in the Act; figures of that kind circulate in commercial material and are not traceable to anything we read.
Requirements
- For citizenship by investment, one of the two statutory investments: a payment into the National Transformation Fund or a payment towards an approved project - see the citizenship record for the figures
- An application submitted by a licensed Local Agent, never directly
- For permanent residence by investment, the same machinery, and the Regulations still set a fee for the residence card
- For holding land as a foreigner, a licence from the Minister responsible for national security, registered in the Deeds and Land Registry
- Without a licence, no more than five acres and no more than an annual tenancy, and only for your own residence, trade or business
In detail
The ladder that was dismantled in 2019
As enacted in 2013 the programme had a shape worth remembering because the description of it has outlived the thing. A person who paid into the National Transformation Fund applied for permanent residence; had to reside in Grenada for at least fourteen days after getting it; and could apply for citizenship twelve months later. Act 3 of 2019 took all of it out in a single section: it deleted the words that made the citizenship application follow a permanent residence one, and repealed the subsection containing the fourteen days and the twelve months. The Act came into force on 24 May 2019 by a commencement Order made the day before. Since then the investment buys citizenship directly, and permanent residence by investment is an option nobody has a reason to take.
Permanent residence by investment is still in the statute
The Act's long title still speaks of enabling persons to acquire permanent residence and citizenship by registration following investment. Section 5 still lets a person apply as a main applicant to become a permanent resident. Section 12 still provides for depriving someone of permanent residence and still says that a permanent resident who does not apply for citizenship within twelve months may forfeit the investment at the Minister's election. And Schedule I still carries a US$1,000 fee for the issuance of a Grenada Permanent Residence Card, inserted in 2019 and untouched by the wholesale replacement of the investment table in 2024. The status exists; what was removed was the requirement to pass through it.
There is no investor residence permit anywhere else
Outside the investment citizenship statute, Grenada's immigration law offers an investor exactly what it offers anyone: a visitor permit of up to twelve months, and a permit of permanent residence granted on good character and an intention to stay. Neither mentions money. The Ministry of Labour's work permit guidelines include an Investment box on the application form, which identifies why a permit is sought and changes nothing about the test. A person who buys property here without taking citizenship is a visitor who owns land, and whether they may own it is a question for a different statute again.
The land-holding licence, and the figure that is not in it
The Aliens (Land-Holding Regulation) Act dates from 1922 and is severe: land or a mortgage held by an unlicensed alien is forfeited to the Government, and alien includes a company incorporated in Grenada but under alien control. A foreigner may hold up to five acres on an annual tenancy or less for their own residence, trade or business without a licence, and anything more requires one from the Minister responsible for national security, registered in the Deeds and Land Registry before it has any effect. The only money the Act names is a stamp duty of twenty-five dollars on the licence. Commercial material routinely states a licence fee as a percentage of the purchase price; no such percentage appears in the Act, and we publish none.
Country-level policy
This is the most-searched fact about Grenada and almost everything written about it is written by someone selling a passport. Here is what the instruments say. A treaty between the United States and Grenada concerning the reciprocal encouragement and protection of investment was signed at Washington on 2 May 1986 and entered into force on 3 March 1989. It is a bilateral investment treaty, not a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation. Its Article II(3) lets nationals of either party enter and remain in the other for the purpose of an investment, subject to that party's own laws on the entry of aliens. The E-2 classification itself is United States law: the Immigration and Nationality Act requires a qualifying treaty of commerce and navigation, and the State Department's own manual says such treaties may include bilateral investment treaties. The Department's treaty country list records Grenada for E-2 with an effective date of 3 March 1989, and for E-2 only - Grenada has no E-1 treaty trader status. None of this is Grenadian law and none of it does anything at a Grenadian counter.
In November 2025 Grenada gave the force of law to an agreement establishing an Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority, made on 18 September 2025. The agreement does the thing the region has been pressed to do: a common regulator, common standards, an appeals tribunal, and - the part that reached the news - a residence requirement. Every new investment citizen and their dependants would have to be physically present for an aggregate of thirty days during or up to the first five calendar years after the grant, with each of them individually present for at least five days in the first twelve months, and a passport issued for five years renewable to ten only on certification that this has been done. The Act is expressed to come into force on a date the Minister appoints, and we found no such date. In August 2026 the agency administering the programme told applicants the requirement will not take effect until the regional regulator exists.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Barbados
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«(a) in subsection (1) by deleting the words “for Permanent Residence and subsequently” after the word “application”;»Cite the section of the amended Act naming the Act that amended it. Before 24 May 2019 a National Transformation Fund investor applied for permanent residence and only afterwards for citizenship.
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(b) by repealing subsection (2).»Subsection (2) contained the three conditions for citizenship through the Fund: permanent residence first, fourteen days of residence after it, and an application twelve months later. All three went at once.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(b) he or she must reside in Grenada for at least fourteen days after obtaining Permanent Residence; and»Recorded because the popular description of the programme still carries this condition years after it was repealed.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The Grenada Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) Act No.
3 of 2019 shall come into force on the 24th day of May, 2019.»Act 3 of 2019 was expressed to come into force on a date appointed by Order, so the Order is what makes the repeal effective. Without it the fourteen-day rule would still be law.
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«“(3) A person to whom Citizenship by Investment
is granted by virtue of an investment into an approved
project under this section shall not dispose of the
investment for the purposes of subsection (4) until the
expiration of five years from the grant of his or her
Citizenship.»Five years from the grant of citizenship, not from the purchase. Subsection (4) then lets the next buyer use the same property for their own application once that period has run.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)
an applicant may not dispose of the investment for
a period of three years after his or her grant of
citizenship.»The original significant-investment holding period. Act 3 of 2019 repealed and replaced subsection (2), taking this sentence out, and put a five-year period in a new subsection (5A) instead.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Subject to the provisions of this Act, neither land nor a mortgage on land shall be held by an unlicensed alien, and any land or mortgage so held shall be forfeited to the Government.»Forfeiture is to the Government, not to the Crown as in Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the Act has been amended nine times, most recently by Act 6 of 2009.
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«land may be acquired and held by an unlicensed alien on an annual tenancy or for any less interest for the purposes of his or her residence, trade, or business, but an unlicensed alien shall not so hold more than five acres of land in all;»About this source
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«“alien” means a person who is not a citizen of Grenada and includes a company which is incorporated in Grenada and is under alien control as explained in section 6;»Buying through a Grenadian company does not avoid the Act. Sections 6 to 13 run a parallel licensing regime for companies under alien control and for shares and debentures.
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The Minister may, if he or she thinks fit, from time to time, grant to any alien a licence to hold land as owner or tenant for any estate or interest either subject to any condition or not:»The proviso makes the licence operative only as to the land described and the estate specified, and section 4(3) makes it of no effect until the fees are paid and it is registered in the Deeds and Land Registry.
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Every licence granted under this Act shall be subject to a stamp duty of twenty-five dollars which shall be paid by the licensee in accordance with the provisions of the Stamp Act, Chapter 309.»Twenty-five Eastern Caribbean dollars. Section 18(2) separately requires a statutory declaration verifying the consideration, which is certified in the licence and becomes a condition of it.
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may grant a permit of permanent residence to any person who applies for the same in the prescribed manner and who—»The only residence grant in the Immigration Act. Nothing in it is given for investing, and no other section of the Act grants residence.
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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Practical notes
The negative claim that no investor residence permit exists outside the investment citizenship statute rests on the Immigration Act read in full, on its five printed subsidiary instruments, and on the Immigration (Amendment) Acts of 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2021. Section 39 gives a general regulation-making power and we did not survey every instrument ever made under it.
No percentage-based alien landholding licence fee appears in the Aliens (Land-Holding Regulation) Act, in the Stamp Act reference it makes, or in any Order under the Act printed with it. If such a charge exists it is in an instrument we have not read, and nothing on this record states one.
Schedule I to the Citizenship by Investment Regulations is the product of at least seventeen amending instruments between 2013 and 2025, several of which substituted whole tables. The permanent residence card fee of US$1,000 is traced to S.R.O. 13 of 2019 and we found nothing repealing it, but the Regulations are not consolidated anywhere and the risk of a missed instrument is real.
The Act is not in the revised edition of the Laws of Grenada and has no Chapter number. There is no consolidated text of it anywhere: a reader has to assemble Act 15 of 2013 with the amending Acts of 2014 twice, 2015, 2016, 2017 twice, 2018 and 2019.
- consolidatesGrenada Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act No. 3 of 2019)
Laws of Grenada
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- consolidatesGrenada Citizenship by Investment Act, 2013 (Act No. 15 of 2013)
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesGrenada Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) Act (Commencement) Order, 2019 (S.R.O. No. 12 of 2019)
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Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesAliens (Land-Holding Regulation) Act, Chapter 13, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
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- consolidatesImmigration Act, Chapter 145, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesGrenada Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2019 (S.R.O. No. 13 of 2019)
Laws of Grenada
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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