{"id":43058,"date":"2026-04-11T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=43058"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:03:32","slug":"sao-tome-introduces-remote-passport-issuance-clarifies-three-nationality-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/sao-tome-introduces-remote-passport-issuance-clarifies-three-nationality-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 Introduces Remote Passport Issuance, Clarifies Three-Nationality Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ahmed Abbas<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe\u2019s Citizenship Investment Unit (CIU) has issued a memorandum to licensed marketing agents announcing three simultaneous changes to the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imidaily.com\/sao-tomeand-principe-cbi\/\">citizenship by investment (CBI) program<\/a>, including a formal hold on applications from individuals holding three or more foreign nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imidaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/STP-Memorandum_Legislative-and-Operational-Update.pdf\">memorandum<\/a>, dated 10 April and signed by CIU Director Disney Leite Ramos, cites Nationality Law No. 07\/2022, which prohibits the granting of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an nationality to individuals holding three or more foreign nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>An amendment to this restriction had been expected but has not materialized, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imidaily.com\/editors-picks\/imi-private-briefing-q1-2026-out-now-confidential-im-industry-intel\/\">a matter flagged in IMI\u2019s most recent Private Briefing<\/a>. Parliament has yet to finalize the required legislative changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, acceptance of new applications from individuals holding three foreign passports or more will be placed on hold,\u201d the memorandum states.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: https:\/\/www.imidaily.com\/africa\/sao-tome-introduces-remote-passport-issuance-clarifies-three-nationality-rule\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ahmed Abbas S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe\u2019s Citizenship Investment Unit (CIU) has issued a memorandum to licensed marketing agents announcing three simultaneous changes to the country\u2019s citizenship by investment (CBI) program, including a formal hold on applications from individuals holding three or more foreign nationalities. The memorandum, dated 10 April and signed by CIU Director [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-sao-tome-and-principe","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43059,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43058\/revisions\/43059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}