The Reviewer Behind This Site
Our guides on funding a Vanuatu citizenship application from digital assets are checked by one lawyer with a sanctions practice.
Vanuatu Crypto Passport looks at one narrow question: how a Vanuatu citizenship application can be funded when the money started out as digital assets. The site covers conversion, the paper trail behind holdings and the extra scrutiny that usually follows. It is an independent resource, not a government body, and it does not handle payments.
Content on the site is reviewed by Tarek Muhammad. Digital assets raise sanctions and compliance questions quickly, and that is the area where his practice sits, so each page is read with those questions in mind.
Tarek Muhammad
Associate Partner
Tarek Muhammad, an Associate Partner, has practised public and private law for over fifteen years. His focus areas are compliance and sanctions regimes, among them UN, EU and OFAC measures, alongside criminal defence and international law. He advises on compliance design and on risk mitigation.
He has led cross-border litigation and arbitration proceedings together with foreign counsel. He holds an LL.B. from Damascus University and advanced certifications in Regulatory Compliance, Transnational Litigation and International Arbitration. Arabic, English and French are his working languages, and he contributes to legal journals and international forums on sanctions law and international cooperation.
What Muhammad checks on this site
- Descriptions of conversion and payment do not attribute to the Citizenship Commission any payment method it has not published.
- Source-of-funds guidance for digital assets covers evidence of acquisition, holding and conversion in line with published due diligence requirements.
- Sanctions wording, including references to wallets or exchanges linked to listed parties, is checked against how UN, EU and OFAC regimes operate.
- Contribution amounts and fees are quoted as published and marked as subject to change, with no implied price in any token.
- Timing is stated as usually 2 to 4 months, with no guarantee and no suggestion that crypto funding speeds things up.
- Legal references point to the Citizenship Act [CAP 112] and its published regulations.
What the reviewer does not do
Tarek Muhammad does not take payments, convert assets, prepare filings or decide applications. A designated agent on the published register lodges each application, and the Citizenship Commission makes the decision. This page explains the review of the site's content and is not legal advice on any particular holding or application.
Reporting an error
If a page describes a conversion step, a fee or a compliance rule inaccurately, please use the form on this page to tell us. A link to the page and a brief explanation are enough for the reviewer to check it.
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