{"schemaVersion":1,"passportCode":"GD","passportUrl":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/grenada","scope":"Selected country-topic summaries; not a complete account of citizenship law or personal tax liability. These facts do not change mobility scores.","review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_korea_finland","reviewedAt":"2026-09-22","recheckBy":"2026-12-21","candidateSha256":"3e8a35e49006bedf9d727b9cce26e7e97febf10a0458e880ab33a8e7b3e270a0","notes":"Independent actual-source review supports all six topics and 33 facts within their explicit limits. All 13 registered authorities, both linked Saint Lucia 2026 tax amendments and the supplemental national amendment checks were read. Four locator-only corrections were verified against the sources and the exact final hash. 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Meeting the conditions does not make the grant automatic.","scope":"Adult alien or British-protected-person naturalisation under section 7 of the Citizenship Act, read with Act 20 of 2012; not Commonwealth or Irish registration, spouse, descendant or investment routes.","jurisdiction":"Grenada","routeType":"naturalisation","facts":[{"id":"gd-cit-permit-residence","label":"Permit and final twelve months","text":"The 2012 amendment requires the applicant to hold a permit of residence issued by the Minister responsible for immigration and to have resided in Grenada throughout the twelve months immediately before applying. The text says a residence permit; it does not label this as a specified number of years of permanent residence.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-cit-act","ranks2140-gd-cit-permit"],"locator":"Act section 7(1)(b), PDF page 4, replaced by Act 20 of 2012 section 3, PDF page 4"},{"id":"gd-cit-earlier-residence","label":"Five years within the earlier seven-year window","text":"During the seven years before that final twelve-month period, the applicant must have at least five years in aggregate of Grenadian residence, government service, or a combination. Government service can include service abroad. This earlier period and the final twelve months are separate requirements, not a five-year total residence shortcut.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-cit-act"],"locator":"Sections 2(1), service under the Government, and 7(1)(c), PDF pages 2 and 4"},{"id":"gd-cit-personal-tests","label":"Adult capacity, character and English","text":"The applicant must be at least 18, of full capacity and good character, and have adequate knowledge of English. The cited Act does not assign a CEFR level or establish a particular examination format or general exemption. The Minister must be satisfied that these conditions are met.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-cit-act"],"locator":"Sections 2(2), 5(1)(a)–(b) and 7(1)(a), PDF pages 3–4"},{"id":"gd-cit-intention-oath","label":"Future intention, discretion and oath","text":"The applicant must intend to reside in Grenada or enter or continue government service. Section 7 provides ministerial discretion to adjust residence periods and a separately prescribed exceptional route requiring both Houses' approval. The ordinary grant requires an oath; citizenship begins on the certificate date, with the oath or permitted affirmation attested by a magistrate.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-cit-act"],"locator":"Sections 7(1)(d), 7(2)–(4), 8 and 12, PDF pages 4 and 6"},{"id":"gd-cit-renunciation","label":"Voluntary renunciation has a registration step","text":"An adult of full capacity who is or is about to become another country's citizen can make a prescribed declaration renouncing Grenadian citizenship. Loss occurs upon registration; wartime withholding of registration is possible. This provision is not, by itself, proof of every foreign-nationality retention condition on initial naturalisation.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-cit-act"],"locator":"Section 10(1), PDF pages 5–6"}],"limits":["The Parliament-hosted base Act lists amendments through 2002 and is read with the actual 2012 permit amendment. The separately read 2016 amendment adds a descendant-registration route, not a replacement ordinary naturalisation clock.","No numerical English framework, comprehensive absence policy or current ordinary-route foreign-nationality retention guarantee was established. Section 7(2)'s unusual printed timing language is not silently rewritten into a broader absence allowance."],"review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_korea_finland","reviewedAt":"2026-09-22","recheckBy":"2026-12-21","candidateSha256":"3e8a35e49006bedf9d727b9cce26e7e97febf10a0458e880ab33a8e7b3e270a0","notes":"Independent actual-source review supports all six topics and 33 facts within their explicit limits. All 13 registered authorities, both linked Saint Lucia 2026 tax amendments and the supplemental national amendment checks were read. Four locator-only corrections were verified against the sources and the exact final hash. Saint Lucia ordinary eligibility/retention remains unresolved; Grenada's 2012 residence-permit amendment is preserved; Dominica's seven-year Act wording is separated from inconsistent old five-year provisions, and its announced January 2027 tax change is not treated as operative in 2026. 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Statutory source rules, overseas activity connected with Grenadian business and nonresident withholding prevent a simple assumption that all foreign payments are outside the tax base.","scope":"Baseline natural-person residence, assessable-income source, cross-border business income and treaty framework; not corporate residence, rates, investment concessions or a guarantee that every foreign receipt is exempt.","jurisdiction":"Grenada","facts":[{"id":"gd-tax-residence","label":"Presence, permanent abode and adjacent years","text":"Residence can arise from at least 183 days of physical presence in the assessment year, or a permanent Grenadian abode with some presence. Accepted education, medical, government-duty or other reasonable absence can preserve the abode basis throughout a year away. A further rule covers continuous presence connected with an immediately adjoining year qualifying under the day test.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-tax-act"],"locator":"Section 2, resident in Grenada definition (a)(i)–(iii), PDF page 8","constraint":{"value":183,"unit":"days","basis":"physical_presence","cohort":"One individual residence alternative in the year of assessment; abode and adjoining-year alternatives also apply."}},{"id":"gd-tax-scope","label":"Resident and nonresident source-based charge","text":"Section 8 includes non-exempt income from all Grenadian sources for residents and, subject to the withholding rules, nonresidents. It does not state a general worldwide-income charge on resident individuals. Citizenship is not a substitute for applying these residence and source provisions.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-tax-act"],"locator":"Sections 2 and 8, PDF pages 8 and 11"},{"id":"gd-tax-source","label":"Where work and connected services arise","text":"Employment exercised in Grenada can be Grenadian-source regardless of payment or contract location. The Act also sources specified overseas employment of an ordinarily resident person to Grenada when its expense is charged against a Grenadian business, and covers management or technical services borne by a Grenadian business. A foreign payer or account alone is not decisive.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-tax-act"],"locator":"Section 10(1)(a), (b) and (g), PDF page 12"},{"id":"gd-tax-overseas-business","label":"Foreign activity linked to Grenadian business","text":"For a business conducted inside and outside Grenada, the Comptroller determines a reasonable Grenadian-source amount using the operations, turnover, assets and other relevant factors. Income arising abroad from an act incidental to business carried on in Grenada is included whether received in Grenada or not.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-tax-act"],"locator":"Section 30(4)–(5), PDF pages 22–23"},{"id":"gd-tax-nonresident","label":"Nonresident withholding is a separate mechanism","text":"As amended in 2015, section 7(5) removes covered nonresident income from ordinary assessable income when it is not from carrying on business and instead subjects it to withholding under sections 50 or 51A. This distinction is not an exemption from tax; particular payment categories, exemptions and agreements must still be checked.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-tax-amendment"],"locator":"Act 27 of 2015 section 3 replacing section 7(5), PDF page 6; section 1 commencement provisions, pages 3–4"},{"id":"gd-tax-treaties","label":"Applicable agreements can modify the result","text":"Section 43 authorises agreements addressing double taxation, permanent-establishment income and source allocation. An agreement, amendment or cancellation must be published by Gazette order; an effective agreement operates notwithstanding inconsistent provisions of the Act. Relief therefore depends on the particular applicable agreement, not nationality alone.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["ranks2140-gd-tax-act"],"locator":"Section 43(1)–(3), PDF pages 32–33"}],"limits":["The Parliament-hosted base compilation includes amendments through 2010; the relevant 2015 replacement of section 7(5) is separately cited. Later published amendments checked in the research notes concern exemptions, withholding details, allowances or administration rather than a replacement of the cited residence/source rules.","The live IRD links redirected to Facebook or a tax-portal login, and the separate laws site required login for downloads. The accessible official parliamentary statutes were read directly. 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