Saint Lucia is becoming even more competitive and interesting for investors. The list of dependents who can be entered in the application has become wider.

What has changed?

The most important change is that the brother or sister of the main applicant who has not reached the age of 18 and who has received the consent of his/her parent or guardian can apply for citizenship. This is a completely new category of skilled dependents.

As for the dependency groups from earlier, the criteria have changed a bit and become even more attractive for the applicant. Now the dependent may go through:

the child of the applicant or his/her spouse who is under 21 years old (previously the child should have been under the age of 18);
the child of the applicant or his/her spouse, not older than 30 years (previously 25), who is fully financially supported by the main applicant;
the age of the parent and spouse of the applicant were reduced from 65+ to 55+, but the parent should still be financially dependent on the main applicant.

Remained unchanged:

spouse of the main applicant;
a child of the main applicant of any age who has physical or mental problems and who is fully supported by the main applicant;
a parent of the main applicant of any age who has physical or mental problems and who is fully supported by the main applicant.

In addition, the legislation clarifies who can be added to an existing application after approval by the main applicant:

was legally born or legally adopted, after filing an application by a citizen;
is the spouse of a citizen who has married after submitting an application;
is an existing dependent citizen who has the right to obtain citizenship, which will be granted after no more than five years, as the citizen applied for citizenship.

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