Antigua has made crucial changes to the CIP programme favoring inclusion of grandchildren, spouse of children, siblings making it even more family friendly by amending the definition of “dependant” under citizenship by investment (amendment) regulation No. 50 of 2024.
The following categories of family members can now file under a single citizenship application.
- Grandchildren of principal applicant can be added later, if parent is below 55 years of age.
- Children under 30 years not required to provide financially dependent.
Physically or mentally handicapped child can be of ANY age must be fully supported by MA (main applicant). - Spouse of dependent child (under 35 years) can now be included in the family application.
- Unmarried siblings have no age limit, along with their spouse can be added to family application.
- Parents or Grandparents (with their spouses) above 55 years now permitted provided fully supported by MA. No age limit apply if physically or mentally handicapped person.
Nomination
Another important benefit added was Nomination – Main applicant can now designate another family member as substitute main applicant, incase of death or physically/mentally incapacitated. This makes it easy to pass down citizenship to future generations (eg. beyond grandchildren) without breaking the family chain.