CIP Saint Lucia: The perfect combination of yield-guaranteeing governance and value-creating efficiency

The Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) has made no secret of its commitment to governance and transparency. Our dedication to the strictest of due diligence policies is at the heart of our identity.

The core purpose of this programme is to provide a stable, secure, long-term source of non-debt bearing liquidity that can create sovereign and societal value for the country and its citizens. We are confident that our commitment to security means that we can guarantee income to the state for many years because our international partners trust our dedication to the very highest of standards.

However, we are also entirely committed to meeting the needs of our applicant investors. We have therefore designed an application and investment process that is friction free.

As a means of extending the applicant’s experience , we are delighted to announce that we are the first and currently the only citizenship-by-investment program to have a unique, wholly owned and managed e-payment platform which is an integral part of our newly launched website.

During the Covid-19 imposed international lockdown, arranging for bank wire transfer could either add weeks to the timeframe or be simply impossible for our investors to manage. This will save our clients time and potentially capital as there are no fees required to manage the transfer: CIP Payments. Entirely secure, utterly efficient, we believe that our e-payment platform introduces time and cost efficiencies for investors, thereby creating additional value over and above the sustainable return that is guaranteed by our commitment to the utmost highest of standards.

Over the 5 years we have been within this sector, we have worked tirelessly in ensuring that our processing time is within manageable expectations of our applicants. We are proud to state that our average processing time from receipt of an application to the grant of citizenship is an average of 56 days. Following a full diagnostic of the application process, we saw numerous opportunities to make significant savings in time, with no downside in terms of our commitment to security. 

Our continued effort in bringing about an efficient process is a pledge that is perfectly aligned with our commitment to our investors, to make the entire process of investing in Saint Lucia as efficient as possible. Efficiency does not equate to less due diligence. It means that that we ensure that all  potential efficiencies are maximized to create the perfect combination of effective due diligence with no time wasted.

In the investment migration universe, thorough due diligence and governance are at times falsely portrayed as somewhat tiresome costs both in capital and in time. We disagree, because we see a commitment to good governance as the major value driver for our clients, in respect of providing life-long yield - and beyond as a legacy for future generations.

Both value and yield in investment migration? It exists in other asset classes, we are delighted to have created it in Saint Lucia.