investors to gain renewable, long-
term US residency with a lower
initial investment and fewer tax
obligations than the E-5 program.
Grenada is “the only country in
the world to have both an active
Citizenship by Investment program,
and a bilateral investment treaty
with the USA,” says Kaisha Ince,
the chairperson of Grenada’s CBI
Committee. Many CBI investors have
gone on to successfully obtain E-2
visas, she says, and the US has told
Grenada that it treats CBI investors the
same as any other Grenadian citizen
for visa assessment purposes.
That’s drawn plenty of attention for
the Grenadian CBI program from
places such as China, which don’t
have E-2 treaties of their own, Emmett
says. “The biggest selling-point about
Grenada is that it’s got the E-2 visa,”
she adds. “Grenada has definitely
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become very popular with the
Chinese because of the E-2 visa.”
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