Saint Kitts passport processing flow

Stage 1: Prepare the application materials and submit the application to the Immigration Bureau of Saint Kitts.

Due to well-known reasons, the application materials for island passports are much simpler than those for immigrants from Canada and the United States. To apply for a Saint Kitts passport, the applicant only needs to prepare the corresponding identity information, work information and asset certification information, and does not need any explanation of the source of funds. The application materials can be notarized and certified by lawyers, which is recognized by the St. Kitts Immigration Bureau.

The second stage: St. Kitts Immigration Bureau receives the application and enters the turning link.

After receiving the applicant's immigration application materials, the Immigration Bureau of Saint Kitts will issue the corresponding admission notice, and then enter the applicant's background check. Due to the limited manpower of the Immigration Bureau of Saint Kitts, it is generally entrusted to a third party to complete this work, and the period of this stage is about 2-3 months. Although expedited processing (charging expedited fees) is allowed in Saint Kitts, the significance of expedited processing is not obvious from the actual processing progress in the past, and there will be no obvious change during the trial period. Applicants are not advised to choose.

The third stage: through the rotation, the St. Kitts Immigration Bureau issued an approval letter.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the applicant and affiliated applicants have no major economic or criminal disputes and no major infectious diseases, basically 100% will pass the background check arranged by the immigration bureau. After the transfer, the Immigration Bureau of Saint Kitts officially issued an approval letter and asked the applicant to complete the investment within a certain period of time.

Stage 4: The Immigration Bureau of Saint Kitts issues passports, and the applicant acquires Saint Kitts citizenship.

After the applicant completes the investment required by the Immigration Bureau, the Immigration Bureau of Saint Kitts will issue passports to the applicant and affiliated applicants within 1-2 months. After obtaining a passport, the applicant can confirm the authenticity of the passport through the standard contact information on the approval letter of the Immigration Bureau, or can make an inquiry through a special passport appraisal app.

Legal basis:

Article 4 of the Passport Law of the People's Republic of China is issued by the Exit-Entry Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security or the Exit-Entry Administration Bureau of the public security organ of the local people's government at or above the county level entrusted by the Ministry of Public Security, as well as the China people's embassies and consulates abroad and other overseas institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Diplomatic passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Official passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the people of China, China's embassies and consulates abroad or other overseas institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the foreign affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities with districts entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Article 5 Citizens who go abroad for non-official reasons, such as settling in a foreign country, visiting relatives, studying, obtaining employment, traveling, engaging in business activities, etc., shall apply for an ordinary passport to the exit-entry administration organ of the public security organ of the local people's government at or above the county level where their household registration is located.

Article 6 When applying for an ordinary passport, citizens shall submit their identity cards, household registration books, recent bareheaded photos and relevant materials explaining the reasons for their application. State functionaries who leave the country to apply for an ordinary passport for reasons specified in Article 5 of this Law shall also submit relevant supporting documents in accordance with relevant state regulations. The exit-entry administrative organ of the public security organ shall issue an ordinary passport within fifteen days from the date of receiving the application materials; Do not meet the conditions, it shall explain the reasons in writing, and inform the applicant of the right to apply for administrative reconsideration or bring an administrative lawsuit according to law. In remote areas or areas with inconvenient transportation or due to special circumstances, passports cannot be issued on schedule, and the issuance time can be extended to 30 days with the approval of the person in charge of the passport issuing organ.

If a citizen requests emergency treatment due to a reasonable emergency, the exit-entry administration organ of the public security organ shall handle it in time.

Article 7 The registration items of an ordinary passport include: the name, gender, date and place of birth of the passport holder, date of issuance, period of validity, place of issuance and issuing authority of the passport.

The validity period of ordinary passports is: five years for passport holders under the age of 16 and ten years for those over the age of 16. The specific measures for issuing ordinary passports shall be formulated by the Ministry of Public Security.

Article 8 Diplomatic officers, consular officers and their accompanying spouses, minor children and diplomatic envoys shall hold diplomatic passports.

Employees sent by the China government working in China's embassies and consulates abroad or the United Nations and its specialized agencies and other intergovernmental international organizations, their accompanying spouses and minor children hold official passports.

Where citizens other than those mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs go abroad to perform official duties, their work units shall apply to the diplomatic department in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 4 of this Law, and the diplomatic department shall issue diplomatic passports or official passports in accordance with the provisions.

Article 9 The registration items of diplomatic passports and official passports include: the name, gender, date and place of birth of the passport holder, date of issuance, period of validity and issuing authority of the passport.

The scope, methods, validity and specific categories of diplomatic passports and official passports shall be stipulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Article 10 When the registered items of passports held by passport holders are changed, they shall apply to the passport issuing authority for passport change and filling with relevant supporting materials.

Article 11 Under any of the following circumstances, a passport holder may apply for a new or reissued passport in accordance with regulations:

(1) The passport is about to expire;

(2) The passport visa page is about to run out;

(3) The passport is damaged and cannot be used;

(4) The passport is lost or stolen;

(5) Other circumstances in which a passport needs to be renewed.

Passport holders applying for renewal or replacement of ordinary passports shall submit their applications to the exit-entry administration department of the public security organ of the local people's government at or above the county level where their household registration is located; In foreign countries, I will submit it to the people of China, China's embassies and consulates abroad or other overseas institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After returning to China, China citizens who have settled abroad apply for renewal or replacement of ordinary passports, which shall be submitted by themselves to the exit-entry administration department of the public security organ of the local people's government at or above the county level.

The renewal or replacement of diplomatic passports and official passports shall be handled in accordance with the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Article 12 Passports have two functions: visual inspection and machine reading.

The anti-counterfeiting performance of passports is formulated with reference to international technical standards.

Passport issuing organs and their staff members shall keep confidential the personal information of citizens they know because of issuing passports.

Twenty-third citizens who have gone abroad for a short period of time cannot use their passports abroad because their passports are lost, stolen or damaged, they should apply for a travel permit of the People's Republic of China to the China embassy or consulate abroad or other overseas institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Twenty-fourth citizens engaged in border trade, border tourism services or participating in border tourism may apply to the entry-exit management agencies of public security organs of local people's governments at or above the county level entrusted by the Ministry of Public Security for People's Republic of China (PRC) entry-exit permits.

Article 25 Citizens who enter or leave the country as seafarers and work on ships of foreign nationality shall apply to the maritime administrative agency entrusted by the Ministry of Communications for a seaman's certificate of the People's Republic of China.