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St Kitts CBI Revenues surpass US$ 1 billion

The St Kitts CBI program is the oldest and most popular citizenship by investment program in the World. The CBI program has made some important contribution to the economy of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Since hitting its peak year in 2014, receipts from the government’s CBI have been on the decline. In 2017 the CBI revenues declined by 30%.

During an interview to WINN FM, the former government Minister and attorney at law Dwyer Astaphan gave a recap of the CBI fee revenues earned annually over a ten year span starting in 2008.

The panelists calculated that the government has earned over EC$3 billion dollars in cash from the CBI program in just about 10 years.

ECD Millions
SIDF CBI Fees
2007 19
2008 36 12.5
2009 52 14.2
2010 153 42
2011 230 89
2012 330 141
2013 330 277
2014 292 325
2015 209 294
2016 124 175
2017 149
Total 1,775 1,518.7
Total CBI Revenues ECD 3.29 billion (USD 1.22 Billion) during the period of ten years
CBI Revenues St Kitts
ECD Millions

Hurricane Relief Fund

St Kitts received 1200 applications under Hurricane Relief Fund (HRF). Assuming an average of $200,000 per application of Hurricane Relief Fund would have contributed another USD 240 million. This does not include government fees and passport fees.

Real Estate

It is not entirely clear the investments received under real estate option (No data available)

All in all, we estimate St Kitts would have approximately atleast USD 1.5 billion revenues from citizenship by investment programme from 2007 to Q1 2018  when the HRF expired in March 31, 2018.

The CBI revenues are staggering numbers, for a small country with just a population of 55,000. This goes on to show St Kitts and Nevis has achieved great economic prosperity from CBI program, considering St Kitts is the birthplace of economic citizenship in 1983. No other caribbean country has achieved this monumental feat. If the one and half billion revenues were to be distributed to SKN citizens, each person will receive $27,000 per head.

Prabhu Balakrishnan
Prabhu Balakrishnan
Founder of Citizenship by Investment Journal. Chief Editor with over 15 years experience in PR and News publishing. He Loves writing about citizenship, residency and wealth migration. CIP Journal is a Leading publication founded in 2017 bringing latest news from CBI/RBI market.

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