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The São Tomé NDF medical exam looks like a routine four-hour panel. After running the first Chinese São Tomé approval globally and 17 family files since, I can tell you the actual standard runs three layers stricter than the published checklist.
Dominica age-16 interview requirements after the 2024 reform: the six questions CBIU asks teenagers, document checklist, reschedule rules, and recovery from a failed interview.
Saint Lucia CBI passports run on a five-year cycle. Renewal is straightforward when prepared, brutal when ignored. Six questions I get most often, answered with 2026 numbers from CIRA.
After Saint Kitts CIU issues Approval-in-Principle, there is still one gate: the citizenship oath. I have run this 300+ times over 11 years. Three clients lost 4-6 weeks last year by mishandling this step. Here is the real timeline.
Dominica EDF vs real estate, which one fits? Ken breaks down the seven questions clients keep asking, in Q&A form: real price gap, 5-year sunk cost, secondary market liquidity, retirement family fit.
The Dominica 2027 international airport is on track for 2027 completion at $370M, funded primarily by EDF. Ken on four points: scale, current airport limits, CBI value impact, timing for new applicants.
Saint Kitts CBI Strategic Investment Sustainability Contribution (SISC) May 2026 brief: entry amount, approved project list, processing flow, key differences from NDF $250K. Ken's 90-second take from LA.
The 30-day physical residency rule has been pushed back indefinitely. Antigua is still enforcing the old 5-year 5-day standard through 2026. Ken unpacks the ECCIRA bottleneck, the grandfather clause window, and 47 real client landing strategies.
September 2025 Turkey revoked 451 fraudulent CBI citizenships. New fraud has re-emerged in 2026. Ken on the four-layer compliance floor for Turkey $400K property: product, pricing, tax, immigration filing.
Turkey $400K real estate and Grenada $235K NTF are both US E-2 treaty countries. Ken in LA answers the eight comparison questions Chinese HNW families keep asking: cost, time, dependents, E-2 success rate, long-term safety.
The São Tomé 67-day first approval was real but not the norm. Ken walks through W's actual 6-month 11-day timeline, every DD round, supplementary filing, and ministerial signature step, plus the sticking point Chinese cases hit most often.
$230K NDF or $300K real estate? Ken on Antigua family of four NDF vs real estate 2026: all-in cost, 5-year exit reality, landing days, timeline. The seven questions agents skip.
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