Dominica Citizenship by Investment Services Contract
The contract the applicant signs before the Dominica application is submitted. The parties, the persons included and the amounts are in the header and in Annex 1, produced from the application.
1. Definitions
1.1 "Company" means ROYAL GOLDEN MARKETING MANAGEMENT L.L.C, trading as Royal Golden, licence number 1017243, commercial registration number 2161112, Office T35, Arab Bank Building, Port Saeed, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, e-mail info@royalgoldinvest.com, website royalgoldinvest.com ("Party 1"). The Company acts as an Authorised Agent for the Citizenship by Investment Programme of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
1.2 "Applicant" means the person named as Party 2 in this contract, who applies for citizenship of the Commonwealth of Dominica by investment ("Party 2").
1.3 "Included Persons" means the Applicant and the spouse and children listed in Annex 1.
1.4 "Authorities" means the competent authorities of the Commonwealth of Dominica, including the Citizenship by Investment Unit and the Government that decides on the grant of citizenship.
1.5 "CBIU" means the Citizenship by Investment Unit of the Commonwealth of Dominica, which receives applications only through Authorised Agents, carries out due diligence and communicates its decision on the application: approval in principle, delay, or denial.
1.6 "Contract Price" means the total amount in Annex 1; "Deposit" means 20 % of the Contract Price; "Second Payment" means the remaining 80 % of the Contract Price.
1.7 "Portal" means the Applicant's personal client portal on royalgoldinvest.com. "Notice" means a communication posted in the Portal and sent to the e-mail address registered in the Portal.
1.8 "Days" are calendar days. Time limits end at 23:59 Dubai time (United Arab Emirates) on their last day.
2. Subject of the contract
2.1 The Company provides the services in Article 4 so that the Included Persons can obtain citizenship of the Commonwealth of Dominica through its Citizenship by Investment Programme, and the Applicant pays the Contract Price as set out in Articles 8 and 9.
2.2 The Company performs its services with due care. The decision on the application belongs to the Authorities alone (Article 10).
3. Parties and Included Persons
3.1 The details of the Parties are those shown in the header of this contract. The details of the Applicant and of the Included Persons are taken from the application in the Portal and are listed in Annex 1.
3.2 The Applicant confirms that the Applicant is entitled to act for the Included Persons, including the children listed in Annex 1, and will obtain any consent of another parent or guardian that the Authorities require.
3.3 Persons who are not listed in Annex 1 are not covered by this contract.
4. Scope of services
4.1 The Company will:
- review the information given by the Applicant and tell the Applicant which documents each Included Person must provide, following the requirements published by the CBIU;
- check the documents for completeness and form and ask for corrections or additional documents;
- tell the Applicant which documents need translation, certification, notarisation or legalisation (Article 6);
- prepare the application forms and the application file;
- submit the application to the CBIU as Authorised Agent;
- arrange the interviews the CBIU requires and communicate with the Authorities about the application, including during due diligence;
- keep the Applicant informed in the Portal of every material step;
- after an approval in principle, carry out the payment steps of the programme and assist the Applicant until the certificate of naturalisation and the passports issued by the Authorities are delivered.
4.2 The Company does not represent the Applicant before courts, and does not give tax, investment or immigration advice for other countries.
4.3 The Contract Price covers every cost of the application agreed under this contract, from the start of the services until the final citizenship documents are issued, in particular all official government fees and contributions connected with the application, the due diligence and processing stages, the interviews, the Company's administrative services and follow-up, the translation, certification, notarisation and the other documentation steps required, the certificate of naturalisation and the passports. No additional or hidden cost is charged to the Applicant. The acceptance of the application and the issue of documents remain subject to the decision of the Authorities (Article 10).
5. Obligations of the Applicant on information and documents
5.1 The Applicant will give true, complete and up-to-date information and genuine documents for every Included Person, and will provide originals or certified copies when asked.
5.2 The Applicant will provide documents within the time limits the Company communicates, which will be reasonable, and will attend interviews, fingerprinting, medical examinations or other steps that the Authorities require.
5.3 The Applicant will inform the Company without delay of any change in the information given, including changes in family status (Article 13), criminal or civil proceedings, or the validity of passports.
5.4 The Applicant will cooperate with the due diligence carried out by the Authorities and will not submit forged or altered documents.
5.5 The Applicant will keep the Portal login secret. Actions confirmed in the Portal with the Applicant's login are treated as the Applicant's actions.
5.6 The Company and the Authorities may verify the identity of the Applicant and of the Included Persons and the source of the funds, as the programme and the applicable law require, and may ask for further documents or information for this purpose.
6. Translation and completion of documents
6.1 The Company tells the Applicant which documents must be translated, certified, notarised or legalised, and in which form the Authorities accept them. Documents not in English are translated into English.
6.2 Translations are made by translators the Company accepts. The Company checks that every document is complete before submission and never changes the content of a document.
6.3 The costs of the translation, certification, notarisation and legalisation of the documents, of the medical examinations and of the courier services that the application requires are included in the Contract Price (Article 4.3).
7. Stages of the application and contact with the Authorities
7.1 The application normally passes through these stages: signing of this contract and payment of the Deposit; collection and review of documents; submission of the application by the Company to the CBIU; due diligence and interviews; the decision of the CBIU and Notice; Second Payment; the programme's payment steps; the certificate of naturalisation; issue and delivery of the passports.
7.2 The Company is the contact point with the Authorities for the application as far as the Authorities allow. The Applicant will not contact the Authorities about the application without informing the Company, unless the Authorities ask the Applicant directly.
7.3 Duration. This contract has no fixed term: the duration of the procedure is set by the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica and its Authorities, which decide independently and set their own processing times. The Company does not promise a processing time and informs the Applicant in the Portal of every decision and request it receives.
7.4 The Authorities may approve the application in principle, delay it, or deny it, for the application or for a person included in it. The consequences between the Parties are governed by Articles 9 and 10.
8. Contract Price
8.1 The Contract Price depends on the persons included and is set by the Company's price table for the Dominica programme:
- one applicant: USD 200,000 (Deposit USD 40,000; Second Payment USD 160,000);
- married couple, also with one or two children under 16: USD 250,000 (Deposit USD 50,000; Second Payment USD 200,000);
- for each child aged 16 or 17: USD 10,000 in addition;
- for each child aged 18 to 25: USD 25,000 in addition.
Ages are counted on the day this contract is signed. A composition that this table does not cover is priced individually (Article 13.2).
8.2 The Contract Price of this contract, its Deposit and its Second Payment are stated in Annex 1. They are fixed when the Applicant signs and are not changed by any later change of the price table.
8.3 The Company charges no other amount, percentage or payment stage under this contract.
8.4 All amounts are in United States dollars (USD). Payments are made in USDT (Tether) on the TRON network (TRC-20), as set out in Articles 8.5 to 8.8.
8.5 For each payment stage the Company issues a payment request in the Portal. It states the amount in USD, the resulting amount in USDT at the contractual conversion of 1 US dollar = 1 USDT, the receiving address, the network and how the transfer is identified (Article 8.7). The conversion is a calculation rule of this contract, not a statement of the market price of USDT; no floating rate, spread or automatic change applies. For example, USD 250,000 is 250,000 USDT. A payment request, once issued, never changes.
8.6 The Applicant sends exactly the amount in USDT stated in the payment request, only on the TRON network (TRC-20), only to the address stated in that payment request. The network fees of the transfer are paid by the sender and are not deducted from that amount. A transfer of another token, on another network or to another address may not be recoverable.
8.7 The Applicant enters the transaction ID (TXID) of the transfer in the Portal. A payment counts as received only after the Company has verified the transfer on the TRON network and matched it to the payment request; the Portal then shows the payment. A transfer that is only visible on the network is not yet a confirmed payment.
8.8 Only the receiving address stated in the Applicant's own payment request in the Portal applies; the Company may change its receiving address for later payment requests. The Company never asks for payment to an address sent by other means and never asks for a private key or recovery phrase.
9. Payment terms
9.1 The Deposit (20 % of the Contract Price) is payable when this contract is signed.
9.2 The Second Payment (80 % of the Contract Price) becomes payable only after the CBIU has approved the application in principle.
9.3 When the Company receives the approval in principle, it gives the Applicant formal Notice of it in the Portal and by e-mail to the registered address. The Company records the date and time of the Notice.
9.4 The Applicant has one (1) year — three hundred and sixty-five (365) Days — from the Notice to make the Second Payment. The last day for payment is stated in the Notice and in the Portal.
9.5 If the Second Payment is not made within that year, this contract ends by Notice and the Company stops work on the application; the Deposit is not refunded, to the extent permitted by mandatory law. A new application requires a new contract and a new payment.
9.6 The Company may agree in writing to extend the time for the Second Payment. An extension is valid only in writing and is recorded in the Applicant's file; the Portal then shows the new last day.
9.7 The Second Payment never becomes payable if the CBIU denies the application.
9.8 Every confirmed payment and its date are recorded in the Portal. The network fees of a USDT transfer are paid by the sender (Article 8.6).
10. Decision of the Authorities and no refund
10.1 Official rejection. If the CBIU or another competent authority of the Commonwealth of Dominica officially denies the application, or citizenship is finally not granted, the amounts paid under this contract are not refunded and the Company has no further liability towards the Applicant. The Company hands over to the Applicant the official rejection letter it receives; the Portal shows it. This contract then ends.
10.2 The decision to grant citizenship belongs to the sovereign Authorities of the Commonwealth of Dominica. The Company does not guarantee that the Authorities will approve the application or grant citizenship, and does not promise a result or a processing time.
10.3 If the Authorities delay the application, the Company informs the Applicant in the Portal and continues the procedure as the Authorities request; the time limits of the Applicant under this contract are extended accordingly.
10.4 Nothing in this Article removes a right to a refund that mandatory law gives the Applicant and that cannot be excluded by agreement.
11. Withdrawal by the Applicant
11.1 The Applicant may withdraw from the application at any time by a written statement sent through the Portal or to info@royalgoldinvest.com. The Company then stops work on the application.
11.2 In case of a voluntary withdrawal after signing, the amounts paid are not refunded, subject to the rights that mandatory law gives the Applicant and that cannot be waived, including a statutory right to withdraw from a contract concluded at a distance where such a right applies to the Applicant.
12. Termination and end of the contract
12.1 This contract ends when the citizenship documents of the Included Persons have been delivered, under Article 9.5 or 10.1, or when it is terminated.
12.2 The Company may also terminate this contract by Notice stating the reasons if the Applicant gives false or misleading information, submits forged or altered documents, or commits another material breach of this contract. The Applicant may terminate this contract by Notice stating the reasons if the Company commits a material breach of this contract. The financial consequences of a termination follow Articles 9.5, 10 and 11 and the applicable law.
12.3 On termination the Company stops work, informs the Authorities where needed, and returns original documents it holds to the Applicant. Records are kept as described in the privacy policy.
13. Changes in family status
13.1 The Applicant informs the Company without delay of any marriage, divorce, birth, adoption or death that concerns an Included Person or a person who could be included.
13.2 A change of the Included Persons requires a written amendment signed by both Parties. The amendment applies the price of the price table for the new composition; the signed Contract Price never changes by itself. For a composition that the price table does not cover, the Company first reviews the eligibility of the persons, then sets the price individually and records it in a written amendment (Annex 2) that the Applicant reads and signs; the amount becomes part of the contract only after the Company has approved it and the Applicant has signed the amendment. No additional price is ever set automatically.
13.3 The Company cannot ensure that the Authorities accept a person added after the application was submitted.
14. Delays and force majeure
14.1 The Company is not responsible for delays caused by the Authorities, by third parties, by missing or late documents of the Applicant, or by events beyond the reasonable control of the Parties, such as natural disasters, war, epidemics or measures of public authorities.
14.2 The Company informs the Applicant in the Portal of a material delay as soon as it becomes aware of it. Time limits of the Applicant are extended by the duration of an event that prevents the Applicant from acting.
15. Confidentiality and data protection
15.1 Both Parties keep confidential all information received under this contract, except where its disclosure is needed to perform the contract or is required by law.
15.2 The Company processes personal data as described in its privacy policy and personal data processing notice, and shares the data of the Included Persons with the Authorities only as far as needed for the application.
15.3 Identity documents are exchanged only through the Portal and are never sent as e-mail attachments.
16. Correspondence and official notices
16.1 Notices under this contract are given in the Portal and by e-mail to the address registered in the Portal. The Company's official e-mail address is info@royalgoldinvest.com.
16.2 A Notice is given when it is posted in the Portal and sent by e-mail. The Applicant keeps the e-mail address in the Portal up to date and checks the Portal regularly.
17. Disputes, applicable law and jurisdiction
17.1 The Parties will first try to settle any dispute amicably through the Company's complaint process, by a written message in the Portal or to info@royalgoldinvest.com.
17.2 Disputes between the Company and the Applicant arising out of or in connection with this contract, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination and claims for payment, that are not settled under Article 17.1 are referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), which Rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Article. The number of arbitrators is three. The seat (legal place) of the arbitration is Dubai, United Arab Emirates (onshore Dubai); this is not a choice of the Dubai International Financial Centre. The language of the arbitration is English.
17.3 Matters concerning the sovereign decisions of the Authorities on the application, including the decision of the CBIU and the decision on citizenship, are governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Dominica and belong exclusively to its competent authorities and courts. This contract does not submit those decisions to the courts of Dubai; the financial consequences between the Parties remain subject to Article 17.2.
17.4 This contract and the Company's service, financial and contractual obligations under it are governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates as applied in the Emirate of Dubai. Citizenship, eligibility, the decisions of the Authorities and the issue of citizenship documents are governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Dominica (Article 17.3).
17.5 Nothing in this Article removes rights that mandatory law, including mandatory rules on consumer protection and jurisdiction, gives the Applicant and that cannot be excluded by agreement. The arbitration agreement in Article 17.2 applies only within the limits of that law.
18. Electronic signature and record
18.1 The Applicant signs this contract electronically in the Portal by typing the full name shown for Party 2 and by giving each confirmation separately. The Parties agree that this electronic signature binds them like a handwritten signature, to the extent the applicable law allows.
18.2 The Company records the contract number, the case number, the version and language of the text, the date and time of signing, the confirmations, the way the Applicant was authenticated (signed-in Portal account with a verified e-mail address, and two-step verification where it is enabled), the IP address and device information, and the digital fingerprints (SHA-256) of the signed text and of the PDF file.
18.3 The signed contract is kept as a PDF file that cannot be changed and is available in the Portal. Later versions of this text, of the price table or of the website never change a signed contract.
19. Language versions and interpretation
19.1 This contract is available in English, Turkish, Persian and Simplified Chinese. All versions contain the same obligations, amounts, time limits and rights.
19.2 The Applicant signs the version in the language shown in the Portal. If language versions differ, the version that the Applicant viewed and signed when concluding this contract prevails, to the extent this does not conflict with mandatory law.
19.3 Headings are for orientation only.
20. Entire agreement and amendments
20.1 This contract, its Annex 1 and the policies it refers to form the entire agreement of the Parties on its subject.
20.2 Amendments are valid only in writing and must be accepted by both Parties, including electronically in the Portal.
20.3 If a provision is invalid, the other provisions remain in force, and the Parties replace the invalid provision with a valid one that comes closest to its purpose.
21. Financial annex and application data
21.1 Annex 1 is produced from the application in the Portal and forms part of this contract. It states the Parties, the contract number, the case number, the Included Persons, the Contract Price with the lines it is made of, the Deposit and the Second Payment with their payment conditions, and the version of the price table. For a composition that the price table does not cover, the individual price is set out in Annex 2 (Article 13.2), which also forms part of this contract.
21.2 The Applicant checks Annex 1 before signing and confirms that it is correct.