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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kenneth Mohammed

Britain punishing poorer nations that sell citizenship is simplistic and destructive

Counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST 2023 launchHome Secretary Suella Braverman during her speech in Westminster, London, for the launch of counter-terrorism strategy Contest 2023, which has been updated for the first time in five years. Picture date: Tuesday July 18, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Terrorism. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire
Home secretary Suella Braverman’s response to abuses of citizenship by investment and ‘golden visas’ is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

The move by the British home secretary, Suella Braverman, to impose visa restrictions on people from Dominica, Honduras, Namibia, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu has reflected again the tendency to employ a sledgehammer to crack a nut when managing immigration and border security.

In July, Braverman expressed concerns about the way Dominica and Vanuatu administer their citizenship by investment (CBI) schemes – so-called golden visas – citizenship in exchange for financial inputs in the host country.

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