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AG-ADP-01 provides for the automatic acquisition of Antiguan and Barbudan citizenship by a non-citizen minor child who is made the subject of a lawful adoption order where the adopter is a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda.
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AG-BIL-01 is the bilateral / supranational free-movement route for Antigua and Barbuda.
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Birth in Antigua and Barbuda is the foundational and most operationally significant non-investment citizenship pathway.
AG-BTH-02 collects the birth-adjacent citizenship rules that sit alongside the primary jus soli route (AG-BTH-01) but operate in distinct legal contexts: (a) the transitional provision that automatically conferred citizenship on persons born in Antigua before independence on 1 November 1981 (Constitution s.112); (b) the two jus soli exceptions in s.113(a) that can exclude a child born in Antigua and Barbuda from automatic citizenship; and (c) the foundling/abandoned-infant pr
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AG-CBN-01 is the derivative registration route by which a minor child — defined in Cap.22 s.2(1) as any person under 18 — who is the child, stepchild, or adopted child of a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda (or of a person entitled to be registered as a citizen) may themselves be registered as a citizen.
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Citizenship by descent is the mechanism by which Antiguan and Barbudan citizenship passes automatically to a child born outside the territory of Antigua and Barbuda when that child's parent (or, by the government-service carve-in, that parent's death-in-service circumstances) satisfies the qualifying criteria in the Constitution.
Route AG-DSC-02 isolates the generational limiter that the Antigua and Barbuda Constitution builds into its descent regime — the rule that stops citizenship by descent from being transmitted indefinitely down a chain of persons all born outside the country.
AG-DSC-03 addresses the grandparent limb of Antiguan and Barbudan citizenship descent: the rule under which a person born abroad can claim citizenship by reference to a grandparent's connection to pre-independence Antigua, as the route is anchored in the transitional provision of the Constitution (s.112(b)) that created the independence cohort.
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AG-INV-01 is the crown signature route of the Antigua and Barbuda Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme: the acquisition of citizenship by registration following a non-refundable cash contribution to the National Development Fund (NDF).
AG-INV-02 is the Approved Real Estate option of Antigua and Barbuda's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme.
AG-INV-03 is the business-investment limb of Antigua and Barbuda's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme — one of the four headline qualifying-investment options under the programme (alongside the National Development Fund (NDF) donation, approved real estate, and the higher-education / University of the West Indies (UWI) Fund).
AG-INV-04 is the University of the West Indies (UWI) / Higher-Education Fund option of Antigua and Barbuda's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme.
AG-INV-05 documents the framework under which family members and dependants of a main CBI applicant may be included in an Antigua and Barbuda Citizenship by Investment application and thereby acquire Antiguan citizenship jointly with the main applicant.
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AG-MAR-01 is Antigua and Barbuda's marriage-based acquisition route: the registration of the foreign spouse of an Antiguan and Barbudan citizen.
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AG-NAT-01 is the ordinary naturalisation pathway for an alien — defined by the Citizenship Act Cap.22 (Act 17 of 1982) s.2(1) as "a person who is not a Commonwealth citizen or a British protected person." It is the residence-based, discretionary acquisition route reserved for foreign nationals who do not qualify for the faster Commonwealth-citizen registration route (s.3(3), modelled separately as AG-NAT-02) or for any constitutional registration entitlement (Constitution Ord
AG-NAT-02 is the Commonwealth-citizen pathway to Antiguan citizenship, available to nationals of countries listed in the First Schedule to the Citizenship Act Cap.22 (Act 17 of 1982).
AG-NAT-03 is a special, closed-cohort naturalisation/registration route enacted by the Millennium Naturalisation Act 2004 (No.
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AG-PND-01 documents the Eastern Caribbean Citizenship by Investment Regulatory Authority (ECCIRA) framework as enacted in Antigua and Barbuda by the ECCIRA Agreement Act No.
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AG-REG-01 consolidates the constitutional registration-entitlement limbs under Constitution Order 1981 s.114(1), together with the closely related statutory registration grounds in the Citizenship Act Cap.22, which are distinct from ordinary naturalisation (AG-NAT-01), Commonwealth-citizen registration as a NAT sub-route (AG-NAT-02), and the special Millennium registration (AG-NAT-03).
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AG-RST-01 covers the only pathways through which a person who has lost or voluntarily shed Antiguan and Barbudan citizenship may re-acquire or resume it.
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AG-SPC-01 addresses two overlapping areas of Antiguan citizenship law for persons outside the standard acquisition routes: (1) persons who are and have always been stateless and were born in Antigua and Barbuda, who have a statutory entitlement to registration under Citizenship Act Cap.22 s.3(5); and (2) the broader ministerial discretion regime that governs all registration applications including the stateless-born entitlement — in particular the refusal grounds in Cap.22 s.
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AG-XCT-01 is the statutory mechanism by which a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda who holds (or intends to hold) the nationality of another country may voluntarily surrender Antiguan citizenship.
AG-XCT-02 is the general involuntary citizenship-loss mechanism applicable to citizens of Antigua and Barbuda whose citizenship was acquired by registration or naturalisation and who are subject to ministerial deprivation on grounds of fraud, disloyalty, criminality, or activities prejudicial to Antigua and Barbuda.
AG-XCT-03 is the citizenship-loss regime specific to citizens of Antigua and Barbuda who acquired their status through the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Programme.
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