Selling Citizenship as Investment

[myp]

Check out this interesting report on St. Kitts and Nevis and their experimentation with selling citizenship as a way to increase investment in the country.

For decades, the two-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis exported sugarcane to keep its economy afloat. When sugar prices fell, St. Kitts began to sell an even sweeter commodity: its citizenship.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/12/us-passport-idUSTRE81B05A20120212

 

[DodgeFB]

I do think it is a bad idea. But I do understand it. I wish I could sell membership in my family or something. But no one would pay to become my cousin.

 

[myp]

I wish I could sell membership in my family or something. But no one would pay to become my cousin.

Actually there are people who would pay for that (people trying to get a US greencard) It's illegal of course.

 

[DodgeFB]

Actually there are people who would pay for that (people trying to get a US greencard) It's illegal of course.

Of course it is! Everything I want to do is illegal, fattening, or a sin!

 

[Kingdom]

Well it's going on, on the internet today. Forgeries and selling US "green cards" to people who are naive and oblivious enough not to know it's not real.