3.3.2 Involuntary loss of citizenship Only a third of Anglophone Caribbean countries provide that naturalised citizens can lose citizenship upon residence abroad. This period ranges between 5 and 7 years. Disloyalty, service to a foreign government and fraud in the acquisition of citizenship are the most common grounds for the involuntary loss of citizenship, and several countries allow for loss of citizenship in a Commonwealth, or First Schedule, country to serve as grounds for citizenship loss in their country, too. As Table 10 illustrates, a third of the countries allow for involuntary citizenship loss if a person acquires the citizenship of another country (citizenship acquisition via marriage to a noncitizen serves as an exception to this provision). From among the five CBI countries, only St. Lucia does not revoke citizenship from individuals who acquired citizenship via its CBI registration programme if they no longer meet the minimum investment requirements. The Bahamas is the only country to allow for involuntary citizenship loss for those who exercise citizenship rights in another country. RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-Comp. 2020/3 - © 2020 Authors 24

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