Citizenship by Investment case study #6

Jennifer: It's Jennifer Harding Marlin, an attorney that works at the law firm JH Marlin Law, a law firm in the Caribbean that specializes in Citizenship by Investment. So today's video is going to talk about a specific fact situation and what we would recommend in such a situation. So this is a large family, a family of over 10 people that are all applying, so mid-applicant, spouse, and multiple children. They have citizenship from Syria and they're medical doctors. And so in such a situation for large families, some of the better citizenship programs in terms of cost and value are Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Grenada. Depending on what country you're from, you'll have to get documents postulated in certain instances,

Jennifer: provided you're from a country that is member of the Hague Convention on Apostilles and you might have more specific documents required for particular Citizenship by Investment programs. So for large families of six, Antigua and Barbuda has a special offer going on right now, the University of West Indies Fund. However, at the time of doing the application, going over all the document requirements as well as cost effectiveness. The clients ended up going with St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. So some of the citizenship programs have restrictions or limitations on applicants from certain countries like Syria, for example. And so St. Kitts and Nevis was one of the countries that was able to process their citizenship application and required the least amount of documents in the particular case. And so that's why we recommended them to go with St.

Jennifer: Kitts and Nevis. They wanted to have a really high level of visa-free travel, and St. Kitts and Nevis offered the most. All the other Caribbean Citizenship by Investment programs also offer a really high level of visa-free travel, but they just wanted the complete maximum visa-free travel of all the passports, particularly because with the Syrian passport, I can't remember off the top of my head how many countries you're allowed to travel visa-free with a Syrian passport, but it's very limiting. And getting a second passport for applicants that are from countries that have limited visa-free travel is one of the most rewarding things that we do at JH Marlin Law because it's really going to change their life and they're going to use it all the time. You know, if they want to go do business in the United Kingdom or they want to go on vacation to a country.

Jennifer: They don't have to apply for visas. There's not uncertainty around if they're able to go to the meeting or go on vacation and their entire family can be reunited on the passport. So I'll do further videos about particular situations and what citizenship we recommended. All the best. Bye for now.