Dominica
Eastern Caribbean island state on the EU's list of passport-sale schemes to close.
Dominica has until 1 June 2028 to close its citizenship-by-investment scheme under a June 2026 European Commission letter; on 24 September two neighbouring prime ministers asked Brussels for a longer wind-down and left without a deal.
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Dominica is an Eastern Caribbean island state that grants citizenship to foreign investors through a citizenship-by-investment scheme. That scheme has put it on the European Union's list of passport-sale programmes to close.
In a June 2026 letter, Commissioner Magnus Brunner told five Eastern Caribbean governments, Dominica among them, to wind up their schemes no later than 1 June 2028, and set September as the Deadline for two vetting safeguards; the others named were Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and St Kitts and Nevis. Two of the five sent their leaders to see Brunner on 24 September in New York to plead for more time, and that meeting ended with no deal announced. Officials from the region are due to hold technical talks with the Commission in October.
Dominica stayed out of that New York delegation, so its own terms for a wind-down have not been set out in public. Saint Lucia's prime minister put his country's scheme at about 10% of revenue, a measure of what the five states stand to lose.
Does Dominica sell citizenship?
What deadline has the EU set for Dominica's passport scheme?
Which other countries did the EU's letter name?
