Investing your way into Saint Lucia
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Guyana 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 Guyana to Saint Lucia · Residency through investment
Two routes, and they are unusually distinct. The cheap one is land: an alien who gets a certificate of eligibility and then an alien landholding licence may apply to the Chief Immigration Officer for an alien investor entrance permit, which is free for the investor and for a company's directors and shareholders and runs for as long as the licence does. It does not carry the right to work. The expensive one is the passport. Saint Lucia's citizenship by investment programme has four qualifying investments - the National Economic Fund, an approved real estate project, an approved enterprise project and government bonds - and since 1 July 2024 the Fund route costs US$240,000 for an applicant with up to three dependants, more than double the figure the revised edition still prints. From 1 January 2026 an applicant must also satisfy prescribed requirements for residency and genuine link, and from March 2026 must swear to financial resources of at least US$350,000. The Board may approve no more than one thousand five hundred applications a year.
At a glance
- National Economic Fund, applicant with up to three dependants
- US$240,000as of 2024-07-01
S.I. 106 of 2024, deemed in force from 1 July 2024. The Schedule printed in the revised edition still shows US$100,000 for an applicant alone.
- National Economic Fund as the revised edition prints it
- US$100,000
Superseded. Recorded because it is what a reader of the official consolidated text is told today.
- Approved real estate project
- US$300,000
Unchanged by S.I. 106 of 2024, which restated it as US$300,000 for an applicant and any number of dependants plus administration fees. New applications for approval of a real estate project closed on 1 December 2025.
- Approved enterprise project
- US$3,500,000 with three permanent jobs
Option 1, for a single applicant. Option 2 is a joint investment of US$6,000,000 with six jobs and a minimum of US$1,000,000 each. Option 3, for a Cabinet-approved project, is US$250,000.
- Government bonds
- US$500,000 held for 5 years
Under regulation 12(1). A separate bond route under regulation 12(3) starts at US$250,000 with holding periods of five to seven years depending on family size.
- Due diligence fee
- US$8,000 for the applicant
US$5,000 for each qualifying dependant over 16. Restated by S.I. 57 of 2026, which added US$10,000 for a change of name and US$3,000 to have a denied application reviewed.
- Annual cap on approvals
- 1,500
Regulation 7(9) as inserted by S.I. 57 of 2026, for the purposes of section 36(7) of the Act. The figure is written out in words in the instrument - one thousand and five hundred - and the quotation carries it that way.
- Declared financial resources
- US$350,000as of 2026-03-23
Regulation 7(3) as inserted by S.I. 57 of 2026, for the purposes of section 36(1A) of the Act.
- Residency and genuine link requirement
- From 1 January 2026
Section 30A of the Citizenship by Investment Act, inserted by Act 22 of 2025. The requirements themselves are prescribed and we have not read an instrument prescribing them.
- Alien investor entrance permit fee
- Nil for the investor
Section 45(1)(a) and (b) issue it without payment of a fee to the investor and to a company's director, beneficial owner or shareholder; section 45(1)(c) charges a dependant the prescribed fee, which Schedule 3 to the Regulations sets at US$100. All three are quoted below.
- Built real estate holding period
- 5 years after citizenship
Regulation 10A(10), inserted by S.I. 57 of 2026, for apartments and villas.
- Alien investor entrance permit fee for a dependant
- US$100
Schedule 3 to the Alien Landholding (Licensing) Regulations, for the purposes of section 45(1)(c) of the Act.
Requirements
- For the landholding route: a certificate of eligibility from the Board, then an alien landholding licence for the specific land, registered at the Land Registry within 90 days
- For citizenship by investment: an application through a licensed authorised agent, never direct
- A health certificate, a police certificate from the country of residence, a banker's reference and evidence of the proposed investment
- A sworn affidavit declaring financial resources of at least US$350,000 and documents evidencing the source of funds
- Compliance with the prescribed residency and genuine link requirements, from 1 January 2026
- Biometric data on success
In detail
A land licence that comes with a residence permit
Saint Lucia rebuilt its alien landholding law in 2020 and, in doing so, attached an immigration status to it. The sequence is: a certificate of eligibility from the Board, then a licence for the particular piece of land, then a letter from the Unit, then an application to the Chief Immigration Officer, who issues an alien investor entrance permit. It is free for the investor and for the directors, beneficial owners and shareholders of a corporate investor; only dependants pay. It lasts as long as the licence lasts, and it dies with it - the Board must notify the Chief Immigration Officer when a licence is revoked, and the permit may then be revoked too, unless the investor holds another licence. It does not allow work. This is a quieter and far cheaper route than the passport, and nobody writes about it.
What changed in the programme, and when
The citizenship by investment programme moved three times in two years. On 1 July 2024 the Fund price went from a sliding scale starting at US$100,000 to a flat US$240,000 for a family of four, and real estate became US$300,000 regardless of family size. On 10 November 2025 Act 22 of 2025 added a residency and genuine link requirement from 1 January 2026, a mandatory denial where the applicant has been refused a visa by a country Saint Lucia has visa-free travel with, a discretionary denial where another Eastern Caribbean state has refused them, a five-year bar on changing your name, and a power to cap approvals. On 23 March 2026 the Regulations set the cap at one thousand five hundred a year, required a sworn affidavit of at least US$350,000 in resources, closed the real estate route to new projects retrospectively from 1 December 2025, and opened a narrower built real estate route for apartments and villas with a five-year holding period.
The price a reader of the official text is told
None of the 2024 or 2026 changes is in the revised edition. A person who opens the Citizenship by Investment Regulations on the Attorney General's Chambers site today is shown Schedule 2 with the Fund at US$100,000 for an applicant alone, US$140,000 with a spouse and US$150,000 with a spouse and two dependants, amended to S.I. 162 of 2023 and no further. That is the authentic consolidated text, and it is less than half the real price.
Country-level policy
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$100,000, which stopped being the law on 1 July 2024.
On 10 November 2025 Saint Lucia enacted the Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority Agreement Act, giving the force of law to an Agreement made on 22 September 2025 that establishes a single regulator for the five Eastern Caribbean programmes. The Act does not commence on enactment: it comes into force on a day the Minister appoints by Order in the Gazette, and we found no such Order. Grenada's position is the same. So the regional authority exists on paper in at least two states and is in force in neither of them that we can show.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Guyana
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«| Applicant applying with up to three qualifying dependents | US$ 240,000 |»This is the figure in force. It replaced a table that started at US$100,000 for an applicant alone and charged for each addition; the new one is a single price for a family of four.
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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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«The Board shall pay two hundred thousand United States Dollars from the minimum qualifying investment amounts, in accordance with the amount set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2, to the Saint Lucia National Economic Fund.»Of the US$240,000 a family pays, US$200,000 reaches the Fund. S.I. 57 of 2026 then substituted this again so that the Board retains twenty-five per cent of each contribution for marketing and promotion.
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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 and any number of qualifying dependents | US$300,000 plus applicable administration fees»Family size stopped mattering for the real estate route in July 2024.
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The statutory Unit established under Part 2 of the Citizenship by Investment Act, Cap. 1.20, and the body that receives applications, conducts due diligence and reports to the Board. Its site republishes the Gazette-printed Acts and Statutory Instruments governing the programme, which is the fastest route to them and sometimes the only one: Act 22 of 2025 and S.I. 57 of 2026 were read here.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Authoritative about the programme it administers and about nothing else. Its narrative and marketing pages are an agency's account of the law it applies and must never be cited as the instrument - a threshold, a fee or a processing time is taken from the Statutory Instrument it hosts, never from the page describing it. It must not be cited for what is in force either: it hosts what it chooses to host, and absence from this site is not evidence that an instrument does not exist. The PDFs it serves are the National Printing Corporation's print of the Gazette, so where the two disagree the Gazette governs.
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«| Applicant applying alone | US$ 100,000 |»Quoted because it is wrong and still published. The consolidated Schedule carries amendments to S.I. 162 of 2023 and does not have the 2024 figure.
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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$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«| (i) applicant applying alone | US$ 500,000 | 5 years |»The bond route under regulation 12(1). S.I. 106 of 2024 and S.I. 57 of 2026 did not touch paragraph 4, so this remains as printed.
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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$240,000 and three later instruments are invisible. It must also not be relied on for reachability: on 5 October 2026 roughly a third of section addresses answered with the publisher's own 'The page can't be found' or a content-management login page while serving the real text to a plain request, including the Immigration Act interpretation and entry sections, every Schedule to the Immigration (Visa) Order, the whole Citizenship of Saint Lucia Act, the whole Labour Act, the Income Tax Act interpretation section, and every operative section of both customs Acts. A negative claim must never be made from a page that would not load. It is also not the publisher of record for anything gazetted after the revision: that is the National Printing Corporation.
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«| Applicant | US$ 8,000 |»Due diligence and background checks. Each qualifying dependant over 16 is US$5,000.
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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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«For the purposes of section 36(1A) of the Act, an applicant shall provide a sworn affidavit to declare financial resources of at least US$350,000.00.»Made 20 March 2026 and dated 23 March 2026. The affidavit requirement itself came from Act 22 of 2025; this fixes the number.
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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 and approved in 2024 to 2027 are excluded from the count for 2025, 2026 and 2027, so the cap bites on new business only.
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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 application for approval of a real estate project under this regulation must not be made after the 1 st day of December, 2025.»The instrument closing the route is dated three months after the date it closes. The publisher prints "1 st" with a space; we leave it.
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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 investment in an approved built real estate project that has been made as a qualifying investment under the Citizenship by Investment Programme shall not be sold or transferred for a period of at least five years after the granting of citizenship.»The replacement for the closed real estate route is a narrower one: Schedule 3 defines a built real estate project as an apartment or a villa.
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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.»Subsection (2) says it takes effect from 1 January 2026. The requirements are to be prescribed; we have not read an instrument prescribing them, and S.I. 57 of 2026, which is the obvious vehicle, does not contain them.
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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.»Act 14 of 2015, in force 24 August 2015, amended by Acts 12 and 18 of 2019 and 4 of 2020 as printed, and by Act 22 of 2025 which is not in the revised edition.
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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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«| 47. | Entitlement under an alien investor entrance permit |»Act 1 of 2020, in force 20 March 2020. Sections 41 to 49 build the entrance permit and are now stored and quoted below.
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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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«(2) Where an alien investor is a company, that company is eligible to apply to the Chief Immigration Officer, on behalf of a director, beneficial owner or a shareholder or a dependant of that director, beneficial owner or shareholder for an alien investor entrance permit.»The corporate case, and the reason the route is worth more than it looks: one licensed company can carry its directors, owners and shareholders and their dependants.
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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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«(a) an alien investor without payment of an alien investor entrance permit fee;»Free, and the Chief Immigration Officer shall issue rather than may. Paragraph (b) is in the same terms for a company's director, beneficial owner or shareholder.
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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) a dependant of an alien investor, on payment of the prescribed alien investor entrance permit fee.»The only person who pays. Regulation 17 sends the figure to Schedule 3 and Schedule 3 sets it at US$100.
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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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«An alien investor entrance permit is valid for the duration of a valid licence issued under the former Act or an alien landholding licence.»There is no period in the permit. It lives and dies with the land licence, which is what makes the route different in kind from a section 12 permit.
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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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«(1) An alien investor entrance permit entitles an alien investor to enter and remain in Saint Lucia for the duration of a valid licence issued under the former Act or an alien landholding licence.»An entitlement to enter and remain, not a discretion to grant one. Nothing in the Immigration Act gives an ordinary investor that.
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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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«(2) An alien investor entrance permit does not entitle the holder to work in Saint Lucia without obtaining a work permit under the Labour Act.»The limit on the route, stated in the Act rather than left to the Labour Act to imply.
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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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«(1) Where the Chief Immigration Officer is notified of a change under section 48, he or she may revoke the alien investor entrance permit of the alien investor, dependant, director, beneficial owner or shareholder of the alien investor.»Subsection (2) saves the permit where the investor holds another licence, so the status survives selling one property out of several.
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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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«For the purposes of section 45(1)(c) of the Act, the fee for an alien investor entrance permit is specified in Schedule 3.»The only fee in the entrance permit regime, and it is the dependant'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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«Alien Investor Entrance Permit Fee (for each dependant) under section 45(1)(c) of the Act. US$100»The last line of a Schedule whose other figures are the landholding licence fees, which run from US$100 for a subdivided lot to US$20,000 for more than ten acres. Saint Lucia prices this Schedule in United States dollars.
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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
Applications are made by a licensed authorised agent and never by the applicant directly. The agent licence regime is in sections 31 to 35 of the Act.
The minimum value of a built real estate investment is in a new paragraph 2A of Schedule 2 inserted by S.I. 57 of 2026. Our reading of that instrument has the words introducing paragraph 2A but not the table that follows them, which is a silent loss in extraction rather than a gap in the Gazette. We therefore state no figure for the built real estate route.
The Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority Agreement Act, No. 21 of 2025, would put a regional regulator over this programme. It has not commenced. See the separate record.
Sections 41 to 49 of the Alien Landholding (Licensing) Act and the Schedule 3 fee table in its Regulations are stored and quoted. The entrance permit is free for the investor and for a corporate investor's directors, beneficial owners and shareholders, and US$100 for each dependant.
- 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.
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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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- administersCitizenship by Investment (Amendment) Regulations, 2026 (Statutory Instrument No. 57 of 2026)
Citizenship by Investment Unit, Saint Lucia
About this source
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) 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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- consolidatesCitizenship by Investment Regulations, Cap. 1.20, 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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- consolidatesCitizenship by Investment Regulations, Cap. 1.20, Schedule 1
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 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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- consolidatesAlien Landholding (Licensing) Act, Cap. 5.03
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- consolidatesAlien Landholding (Licensing) Act, Cap. 5.03, section 45
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- consolidatesAlien Landholding (Licensing) Act, Cap. 5.03, section 47
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
- consolidatesAlien Landholding (Licensing) Regulations, Schedule 3
Attorney General's Chambers, Saint Lucia · consolidated to 2023
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source