Becoming a citizen of Saint Lucia
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Belize on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Belize to Saint Lucia · Becoming a citizen
Four doors, and the two that changed recently are the interesting ones. Descent was widened to grandparents on 27 June 2024 and given its own application procedure. Investment was repriced on 1 July 2024, capped at one thousand five hundred approvals a year in March 2026, and made conditional on prescribed residency and genuine link requirements from 1 January 2026. The two older doors are unchanged since 1984: registration, which a spouse of a citizen and a Commonwealth citizen with seven years' ordinary residence may claim as an entitlement, and naturalisation, which only an alien may apply for - the Act's "alien" excludes Commonwealth citizens - after twelve months here immediately before applying and seven years of residence in the seven years before that, which is eight years in all, and which requires renouncing every other citizenship. That last requirement is the sharpest fact here: Saint Lucia asks an ordinary naturalising immigrant to give up their other nationality and asks nothing of the kind from someone who pays.
At a glance
- Descent
- Two generationsas of 2024-06-27
Parent or grandparent, and the ancestor must be a citizen by birth.
- Naturalisation residence
- 7 years in aggregate plus 12 continuous months
Section 8(1)(c) and (d), quoted below. The two periods do not overlap: the seven years must fall inside the seven years immediately preceding the twelve months, so the real total is eight. Section 8(2) lets the Minister reckon earlier periods or accept less than seven years for special reasons.
- Dual citizenship on naturalisation
- Not permitted
Section 8(3) requires an alien to renounce the citizenship of any other country before a certificate is granted. Registration under section 6 carries no such requirement, and neither does citizenship by investment.
- Registration for a Commonwealth citizen
- 7 years' ordinary residence
Section 6(2)(b), with the power in section 6(4) to aggregate discontinuous periods or accept a shorter period for special reasons. Both are quoted below.
- Cheapest investment route
- US$240,000as of 2024-07-01
The National Economic Fund, for an applicant with up to three qualifying dependants.
- Annual cap on investment approvals
- 1,500
From S.I. 57 of 2026. The instrument writes the figure in words and the quotation carries it that way.
- Change of name after investment citizenship
- Barred for 5 yearsas of 2025-11-10
Section 36A, inserted by Act 22 of 2025, with exceptions for marriage, divorce, adoption, witness protection and clerical correction.
- Mandatory refusal where another country refused a visa
- Yes
Section 36(3)(a)(vi) as substituted by Act 22 of 2025: an applicant refused a visa by a country Saint Lucia has visa-free travel with, who has not since obtained one, shall be denied.
- Who naturalisation is open to
- Aliens only
Section 2 defines an alien as a person who is not a Commonwealth citizen, a British protected person or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, and section 8 grants a certificate to an alien. A Commonwealth citizen does not naturalise here; they register under section 6(2)(b) after seven years.
- Fee for a certificate of naturalisation
- EC$5,000
Schedule 2 to the Citizenship of Saint Lucia Regulations, substituted by S.I. 116 of 2000, plus a non-refundable fee of EC$50 and stamp duty. Registration under section 6 is EC$2,000 for a CARICOM national, EC$3,000 for a Commonwealth citizen and EC$5,000 for a foreign national.
Requirements
- By descent: a citizen-by-birth parent or grandparent, and an application under section 5A of the Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act
- By registration: marriage to a citizen, or Commonwealth citizenship with seven years' ordinary residence
- By naturalisation: seven years' aggregate residence including the twelve months immediately before applying, good character, adequate English, an intention to stay, and renunciation of every other citizenship
- By investment: a qualifying investment, an authorised agent, due diligence, an oath of allegiance, and from 1 January 2026 the prescribed residency and genuine link
In detail
Renounce if you earn it, keep everything if you buy it
Section 8(3) of the Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act requires an alien seeking naturalisation to renounce, in the prescribed form, the citizenship of any other country they may possess, and to take the oath of allegiance, before a certificate may be granted. Nothing like that applies on the investment route, where the only oath is an oath or affirmation of allegiance and no renunciation is mentioned in the Act or the Regulations. Nor does it apply to registration, which is how a spouse and a long-resident Commonwealth citizen come in. So the person who has lived in Saint Lucia for seven years on work permits is the only one asked to give up their other nationality. Section 8(3) is quoted below. It is also worth seeing who it can reach: section 2 defines an alien as a person who is not a Commonwealth citizen, a British protected person or a citizen of Ireland, so the renunciation requirement falls on a non-Commonwealth immigrant and on nobody else.
What 2025 and 2026 did to the investment route
Act 22 of 2025 is the most substantial rewrite of the programme since it began. It redefined qualifying dependant upward and downward at once - children to twenty-one unconditionally and to thirty if fully supported, parents over fifty-five if fully supported, unmarried siblings under eighteen. It made refusal mandatory where the applicant has been denied a visa by a visa-free partner country, and discretionary where another Eastern Caribbean state has refused them, which is the first time Saint Lucian law has taken notice of a neighbour's decision. It barred a change of name for five years. It created a power to cap approvals, and directed between ten and twenty-five per cent of the Unit's year-end surplus into a Sovereign Wealth Fund. Four months later the Regulations set the cap at one thousand five hundred, required a sworn declaration of at least US$350,000 in resources, closed the real estate route and opened a built real estate route for apartments and villas.
Country-level policy
The Eastern Caribbean Economic Union gives a citizen of a Protocol member state freedom of movement, the right to work without a permit and the right to drive on a home licence. Saint Lucia has written the same exclusion into two of those three in identical words: none of it applies to a person who became a citizen of that state through an economic or honorary citizenship programme, unless the Minister responsible for external affairs has approved that programme as comparable to Saint Lucia's own. Grenada has the same carve-out in one instrument and Saint Vincent has none at all. Saint Lucia's is the sharper position because Saint Lucia runs the programme it is measuring the others against, and because the exclusion arrived on 18 August 2014, the same day the Economic Union Treaty itself took effect here.
Saint Lucia publishes its statute book at a .com address, and that address is not a republication of the law - it is the law. The Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets the Attorney General declare a revised edition in force by Order after Parliament has resolved to authorise it, and from that moment the edition is, in the Act's own words carried into the Order, the sole authentic edition. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, brought into force on 22 July 2025. That is both better and worse than it sounds: better, because the text is authentic rather than merely helpful; worse, because it is authentic as at 2023 and the pages say nothing about the three years since. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there does not contain the grandparent descent route enacted in June 2024. The Immigration Act printed there does not contain section 22A, the fee-waiver power enacted in July 2024 and used twice in 2025. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, which stopped being the law on 1 July 2024.
On 10 November 2025 Saint Lucia enacted the Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority Agreement Act, giving the force of law to an Agreement made on 22 September 2025 that establishes a single regulator for the five Eastern Caribbean programmes. The Act does not commence on enactment: it comes into force on a day the Minister appoints by Order in the Gazette, and we found no such Order. Grenada's position is the same. So the regional authority exists on paper in at least two states and is in force in neither of them that we can show.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Belize
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 person born outside Saint Lucia after the commencement of this Act becomes a citizen at the date of his or her birth if, at that date, his or her father, mother, grandfather or grandmother is a citizen by birth.»The descent door, widened in 2024. See the ancestry record for the two drafting problems inside this sentence.
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The Government printer. Prints the Gazette and publishes Acts and Statutory Instruments as enacted, year by year, as individual PDFs. This is the only place a Saint Lucian instrument later than the 2023 Supplement can be read, and it is where the amendments that matter most live: the grandparent descent route, the immigration fee-waiver power, the ECCIRA Act, the 2026 income tax changes.
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Cannot be cited for: A printer, not a consolidator. Everything here is text as enacted: it shows what an Act did to another Act, never what the amended Act now says, and it is on the reader to apply it to the Chapter. It must not be cited for the current state of any provision. Its documents sit on opaque base64 download addresses whose contents cannot be guessed from the URL, so there is no way to reach an instrument you know the number of without opening the year listing and finding it - and a listing paginates, so reading only the first page loses instruments. It must also not be cited for completeness: the listings are the printer's record of what it printed, not a register of what is in force, and nothing on a PDF says whether a commencement Order has been made. Its print of a section number renders an em dash as a Chinese character, so a reading of it will carry foreign glyphs that are a font mapping and not an extraction fault.
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«has been denied a visa to a country with which Saint Lucia has visa-free travel and has not subsequently obtained a visa to that country;»A mandatory refusal. The Board shall deny, not may. Paragraph (b) adds a discretionary refusal where another Eastern Caribbean state has denied the same applicant.
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
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Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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«The Board may approve annually the prescribed number of applications for citizenship by investment.»The enabling power. The number was prescribed four months later as one thousand five hundred.
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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«For the purposes of section 36(7) of the Act, the Board may approve a maximum of one thousand and five hundred applications for citizenship by investment, annually.»Applications received in 2024 and 2025 are excluded from the count, so the first year the cap really binds is 2028 for that cohort.
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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«A citizen shall not change his or her name within five years of being issued a certificate of registration under section 36(5)(b).»Aimed at the known abuse of acquiring a new identity through a bought passport. The due diligence fee for a change of name was then set at US$10,000 for the applicant.
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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«Where an application for citizenship by investment is made under section 30, an applicant and each qualifying dependant shall comply with the prescribed requirements for residency and genuine link.»Taking effect from 1 January 2026. We have not found an instrument prescribing those requirements.
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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«| Applicant applying with up to three qualifying dependents | US$ 240,000 |»The current price of the cheapest route to a Saint Lucian passport.
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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«An Act to enable persons to acquire citizenship of Saint Lucia by registration following a qualifying investment in Saint Lucia and for related matters.»Note the mechanism: it is registration, the same act that a spouse or a long-resident Commonwealth citizen obtains, reached by paying rather than by connection.
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«” means a person who is not a Commonwealth citizen, a British protected person or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland;»The defined term stands on its own line in the publisher's rendering, so the quotation starts at the closing quotation mark. It is what makes naturalisation and registration two doors for two different people rather than two routes for anyone.
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«(c) that he or she has resided in Saint Lucia for a period exceeding 12 months immediately preceding the date of his or her application;»The first of the two periods, and the one that must be unbroken and immediately before the application.
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«(d) that during the 7 years immediately preceding the said period of 12 months he or she has resided in Saint Lucia or has had service under the Government, or has had partly such residence and partly such service, for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than 7 years;»Seven years of residence inside a seven-year window, which can only be satisfied by seven unbroken years, and that window ends where the twelve months begin. Eight years, not seven.
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«(3) An alien shall not be granted a certificate under this section unless he or she first renounces in the prescribed form the citizenship of any other country which he or she may possess and takes the oath of allegiance.»The sharpest provision in Saint Lucian nationality law. It applies to naturalisation only: not to registration, not to descent and not to the investment route.
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«(b) a person who being a Commonwealth citizen has been for a period of 7 years prior to his or her application ordinarily resident in Saint Lucia;»The Commonwealth citizen's door, and it is registration rather than naturalisation, so no renunciation is asked of them.
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«(4) The Minister may with respect to an application under subsection (2)(b) aggregate discontinuous periods of residence or for special reasons accept a shorter period than 7 years for purposes of residence as required under that paragraph.»The flexibility is on the registration side and it is wider than the naturalisation equivalent in section 8(2).
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«Grant of Certificate of Naturalization under section 8 (1) $5,000»The same price as registering a foreign national under section 6, and two and a half times what a CARICOM national pays to register. The spelling with a z is the publisher's.
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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Practical notes
Registration and naturalisation are now quoted from the Act and its Regulations rather than described: sections 2, 6 and 8 and Schedule 2 to the Citizenship of Saint Lucia Regulations are all stored. The seven-year periods, the entitlement for spouses, the renunciation requirement, the Minister's grounds for refusal and the fee scale each carry a quotation.
The investment route is the only one of the four for which we hold the instruments in full, because they are published as Gazette PDFs by the National Printing Corporation and on the Citizenship by Investment Unit's own site rather than only in the revised edition.
Citizenship by investment is granted by registration, and a person registered under the Citizenship by Investment Act is exempt from the Aliens (Licensing) Act by section 36(6).
- issuesCitizenship of Saint Lucia (Amendment) Act, No. 7 of 2024
National Printing Corporation, Saint Lucia
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The Government printer. Prints the Gazette and publishes Acts and Statutory Instruments as enacted, year by year, as individual PDFs. This is the only place a Saint Lucian instrument later than the 2023 Supplement can be read, and it is where the amendments that matter most live: the grandparent descent route, the immigration fee-waiver power, the ECCIRA Act, the 2026 income tax changes.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: A printer, not a consolidator. Everything here is text as enacted: it shows what an Act did to another Act, never what the amended Act now says, and it is on the reader to apply it to the Chapter. It must not be cited for the current state of any provision. Its documents sit on opaque base64 download addresses whose contents cannot be guessed from the URL, so there is no way to reach an instrument you know the number of without opening the year listing and finding it - and a listing paginates, so reading only the first page loses instruments. It must also not be cited for completeness: the listings are the printer's record of what it printed, not a register of what is in force, and nothing on a PDF says whether a commencement Order has been made. Its print of a section number renders an em dash as a Chinese character, so a reading of it will carry foreign glyphs that are a font mapping and not an extraction fault.
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- administersCitizenship by Investment (Amendment) Act, No. 22 of 2025
Citizenship by Investment Unit, Saint Lucia
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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- administersCitizenship by Investment (Amendment) Regulations, 2026 (Statutory Instrument No. 57 of 2026)
Citizenship by Investment Unit, Saint Lucia
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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- administersCitizenship by Investment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2024 (Statutory Instrument No. 106 of 2024)
Citizenship by Investment Unit, Saint Lucia
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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- consolidatesCitizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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- consolidatesCitizenship of Saint Lucia Act, Cap. 1.04, section 2
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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- consolidatesCitizenship of Saint Lucia Act, Cap. 1.04, section 6
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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- consolidatesCitizenship of Saint Lucia Act, Cap. 1.04, section 8
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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- consolidatesCitizenship of Saint Lucia Regulations, Schedule 2
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
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The Revised Laws of Saint Lucia, published by the Legislative Drafting Department of the Attorney General's Chambers as a data bank reached by remote computer. It is not a convenience copy of the statute book: the Revised Edition of the Laws Act, Cap. 1.07 lets a revised edition exist in that form (s. 4(2)(e)), requires a Resolution of Parliament before the Attorney General may bring one into force (s. 10(4)), and provides that what results is, in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever, the sole authentic edition of the laws (s. 10(5)). Knowingly altering it to deceive is an offence. Arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and printing on its face the in-force date of the principal Act and of every amending Act and Statutory Instrument - which neither the Grenadian nor the Vincentian portal does, and which is what makes a commencement question answerable here.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: It must never be cited for what the law is now. The current edition is the 2023 Supplement, in force 22 July 2025 by S.I. 112 of 2025, and the masthead says only 'Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)' - nothing on any page says anything is missing. The Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act printed there reaches a parent and not a grandparent, because Act 7 of 2024 is not in it. The Immigration Act printed there has no section 22A, because Act 10 of 2024 is not in it, so the two 2025 fee-waiver Orders rest on a power the edition does not show. The Citizenship by Investment Regulations printed there show a National Economic Fund minimum of US$100,000, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further; the figure in force since 1 July 2024 is US$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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