Registro por matrimonio con ciudadano granadino

Escenarios de ejemplo

Los escenarios de ejemplo se muestran en inglés.

• Entitled to be registered — no residence or marriage-duration threshold.

  Constitution s.98 and Citizenship Act Cap 54 s.5(3) give a person married to a Grenadian citizen an ENTITLEMENT to be registered on application (taking the oath of allegiance if an alien). The statute imposes no marriage-duration minimum, no residence requirement, and no continuing-marriage condition. The applicable fee is the spouse-registration EC$100 (or the s.7 'married to a Grenadian by birth' EC$2,000 category in the official taxonomy).

• Entitled to be registered — the entitlement extends to widows/former spouses where the spouse was a citizen during the marriage.

  Constitution s.98 expressly covers a person who 'has been married to a person who was, during the subsistence of the marriage, a citizen of Grenada'. The husband was a Grenadian citizen throughout the marriage, so the widow retains the s.98/Cap 54 s.5(3) registration entitlement notwithstanding his death; there is no continuing-marriage condition. The route is gender-neutral.

• Entitled to be registered — s.98/s.5(3) applies to marriage to any Grenadian citizen, however acquired; the higher EC$2,500 'married to a person who acquired citizenship' fee category applies.

  s.98/Cap 54 s.5(3) confer the registration entitlement on a person married to 'a citizen of Grenada' without distinguishing how the spouse acquired citizenship. The husband's CBI-acquired citizenship is full citizenship, so the spouse qualifies. The fee schedule splits the s.7 category into 'married to a Grenadian by birth' (EC$2,000) and 'married to a person who acquired Grenadian citizenship' (EC$2,500); the latter applies here. (Note: the spouse could alternatively be added as a CBI dependant at the time of the husband's application — GD-INV-03 — but post-grant the marriage-registration route is available.)

• Registration stands unless deprived for fraud/false representation; a genuine marriage that simply later ends does NOT void registration, but fraud can trigger s.9(2)(a) deprivation with due process.

  Because s.5(3) imposes no continuing-marriage condition, a later divorce does not retroactively void a registration that was validly obtained. However, citizens by REGISTRATION are subject to deprivation under Cap 54 s.9(2)(a) for fraud, false representation, or concealment of a material particular — a sham marriage misrepresented as genuine is such a ground. Any deprivation now requires the s.9(5)/(6) written-notice-and-inquiry due process (the national-security shortcut had the words disapplying the s.9(5)/(6) notice-and-inquiry safeguards severed (the national-security ground survives, with due process) in Ehsan, 2020).

• On its face the statute is gender-neutral ('a person married to a citizen'), but Grenada's domestic recognition of a same-sex marriage is unsettled and not primary-confirmed; outcome turns on whether the marriage is recognised in Grenadian law.

  Cap 54 s.5(3) and Constitution s.98 use gender-neutral language ('a person married to a citizen of Grenada'), so the registration entitlement is not text-limited by spouse gender. However, whether Grenada recognises a foreign same-sex marriage for this purpose is not pinned in the GD evidence base and Grenadian family law on the point is unsettled; the entitlement depends on recognition of the marriage as valid in Grenada. This is flagged as uncertain rather than asserted as a clear eligibility.