The pinnacle of Grenada’s Funding Migration Company (IMA), Thomas Anthony, says the nation will step up efforts to market its Citizenship by Funding (CBI) programme in West Africa, with a tour deliberate for October 2025.
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Talking on the not too long ago concluded Fourth AfriCaribbean Commerce and Funding Discussion board (ACTIF2025), Anthony stated Nigeria stays the main supply of African candidates to the programme, however Grenada is now setting its sights on increasing curiosity throughout the continent—significantly in Ghana and Kenya.
“We’ve been exploring extra African nations,” stated Anthony, who was a panelist in a session titled “A showcase of Grenada’s Funding: Commerce, Enterprise and Tourism.” “Extra not too long ago, we had been in Kenya in collaboration with the Nairobi Chamber of Commerce. Over 100 people attended, and my understanding is that 25 p.c of attendees at a non-public occasion there expressed curiosity in making use of to the programme.”
Grenada’s CBI programme grants international traders citizenship in alternate for a major monetary contribution to the island’s socio-economic growth. Past the funding itself, profitable candidates profit from visa-free or visa-on-arrival entry to over 145 nations.
Anthony stated the October tour will embody stops in Ghana because the IMA appears to be like to faucet into new markets and deepen its relationship with the continent.
“We try to develop the demographic popping out of Africa,” he stated. “However we’re additionally taking part in our half in creating that bridge between Africa, Grenada, and the Caribbean at massive—permitting people to make investments into Grenada, and in addition shield these investments by changing into residents.”
Knowledge from the IMA, previously the CBI Unit, reveals a number of Kenyan candidates had been authorized for citizenship underneath the programme within the final quarter of 2024.
