Totally agree with you Ricardo --- As I can recall, apart from the revenue generation of the sale of the passports, the Kiribati Green Passport initiative was more like an FDI where Asian businesspeople were encouraged to do invest and do businesses in Kiribati, mainly in the capital island of Tarawa but did not allow permanent residence status. As I could remember, there were never any Chinese allowed to become PR. However, ironically, during the next Administration which ceased the initiative we saw an increased number of Chinese established their businesses who were given PR statuses.

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