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How many UK tier1 investor visas issued to the Caribbean?

A small number of UK investor visas (tier1) has been issued to the Caribbean countries. The UK remains the most popular golden visa scheme in the world requiring £2m pounds investment.

How many tier1 investor visas issued to the Caribbean?

According to the latest statistics released by Home office,  St Kitts and Nevis leads the list in the number of tier1 investor visas issued to the Caribbean followed by Dominica. This also goes on to show presence  of millionaire citizens from St Kitts investing in UK golden visas.

Please note the top two recipients Dominica and St Kitts and Nevis run citizenship by investment schemes. No applications have been received from Grenada and St Lucia.

Main Applicants and Dependents issued to Tier1 Investor visas – Source: Home Office
Tier1 Main Family Total Refused
Dominica 14 34 48 2
Antigua 1 0 1 0
St Kitts & Nevis 32 72 104 4
Bahamas 1 0 1 0
Trinidad 2 2 4 0
Dominican Rep 2 1 3 1
Belize 1 0 1 0

The Home office in its statistics report, said three applications received from Commonwealth of Dominica and one from Antigua in Q4 2019.

From 2014 to the end of 2019, the UK has issued a total of 2,665 visas in five years. The number of visas issued in 2019 is slightly down by 3.7% compared to the previous year.

UK investor visas 2019
UK investor visas (tier1) issued from 2014-2019
Tier1 Issued Refused
2014 1172 98
2015 192 26
2016 217 24
2017 350 17
2018 374 15
2019 360 15
Total 2665 195
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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