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.
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