No Syrians, no Kurds, and no explanation from the Dominica CIU. Iranians, however, are once more welcome to apply for citizenship.
The top ten residence by investment programs globally approved more than 18,000 applications in 2021. See which they were.
“There is still a very small window of opportunity to beat the price-increase deadline. But quick and decisive action would be required.”
Ireland finally joined the exclusive billion-euro golden visa club at the end of last year, almost entirely thanks to Chinese investment.
Though the Ministry will only confirm the number in December, Spain likely approved its 13,000th golden visa in the second half of last year.
The top ten residence by investment programs globally approved more than 18,000 applications in 2021. See which they were.
“There is still a very small window of opportunity to beat the price-increase deadline. But quick and decisive action would be required.”
Ireland finally joined the exclusive billion-euro golden visa club at the end of last year, almost entirely thanks to Chinese investment.
Though the Ministry will only confirm the number in December, Spain likely approved its 13,000th golden visa in the second half of last year.
USCIS last week shocked the EB5 market by saying all regional centers will need redesignation. That’s not the case, say congressional leaders.
Investment migration people int he news this week.
Investment in golden visa funds has already surpassed last year’s total, indicating fund investment could more than triple this year.
The May 2022 Private Briefings is out now. If you are an IMI Club PRO member, check your inbox for the password-protected PDF.
40 years have passed since countries first began selling citizenships. See our timeline of the history of citizenship by investment programs.
Our guest this week is Mr. Titus Gebel, a serial entrepreneur who’s dedicating his life to creating pockets of freedom in an unfree world.
All Regional Center designations are now defunct and all entities seeking to recruit RC-based investors must file for designation again.
The facts and figures speak for themselves: Greece offers the best deal in the world for residence by investment.
Q1 figures show interest in independent means visas in Panama are reaching decade-high levels, while investor visa demand is declining.
Congressmen aiming to end visa-waivers for countries with CIPs learn that 70% of visa-waiver countries have investment migration programs.
Just as Lesperance foresaw 18 months ago, citizenship renunciations among wealthy Americans are cratering. Here’s what he expects next.
Huriya Private Foundation, in cooperation with the Al Jalila Foundation and artist Marcin Rogal, are raising money for children with cancer.
Sri Lanka is sorely in need of foreign currency to pay for food and energy imports. Now, the government hopes a golden visa can bring cash.
“This is not a passive investment program, and does require active participation from the candidate,” says Harvey [about Canada’s SUV].
Priced at $10.3 million, the compound is expected to be completed in 2023.
While the regional center program has been reauthorized, individual RCs need authorizations of their own through I-924s, Brian Ostar prompts.
The facts and figures speak for themselves: Greece offers the best deal in the world for residence by investment.
Huriya Private Foundation, in cooperation with the Al Jalila Foundation and artist Marcin Rogal, are raising money for children with cancer.
Priced at $10.3 million, the compound is expected to be completed in 2023.
Highlights from Bluemina’s webinar with Les Khan, CEO of the Saint Kitts & Nevis CIU, and Gulf News.
No Syrians, no Kurds, and no explanation from the Dominica CIU. Iranians, however, are once more welcome to apply for citizenship.
“There is still a very small window of opportunity to beat the price-increase deadline. But quick and decisive action would be required.”
All Regional Center designations are now defunct and all entities seeking to recruit RC-based investors must file for designation again.
Sri Lanka is sorely in need of foreign currency to pay for food and energy imports. Now, the government hopes a golden visa can bring cash.
While the regional center program has been reauthorized, individual RCs need authorizations of their own through I-924s, Brian Ostar prompts.
Hungary has granted more than a million citizenships by descent in the last decade. The US is denying these citizens ESTAs, citing fraud risk.
Investment-based visas are now valid for 10 years and at much lower minimum investment requirements than in the past.
Citizenship by investment, argues Brian Greco, is an unequivocal good for governments, locals, agents, and investors. So, why is it vilified?
Dr. Andrés Solimano, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, identifies six global effects of the war and the impact they could have on IM.
Nuri Katz says recent weeks’ events show that “unless something changes drastically, we are closer to the end of the CBI industry than to the beginning of it.”
By attacking CIPs in small, defenseless countries with no allies, EU politicians rack up PR points at zero cost, writes Martin St-Hilaire.
The top ten residence by investment programs globally approved more than 18,000 applications in 2021. See which they were.
See 300+ graphs, charts, and tables on 30+ investment migration programs and markets in the IMI Data Center
Ireland finally joined the exclusive billion-euro golden visa club at the end of last year, almost entirely thanks to Chinese investment.
Though the Ministry will only confirm the number in December, Spain likely approved its 13,000th golden visa in the second half of last year.
Investment in golden visa funds has already surpassed last year’s total, indicating fund investment could more than triple this year.
40 years have passed since countries first began selling citizenships. See our timeline of the history of citizenship by investment programs.
Q1 figures show interest in independent means visas in Panama are reaching decade-high levels, while investor visa demand is declining.
Just as Lesperance foresaw 18 months ago, citizenship renunciations among wealthy Americans are cratering. Here’s what he expects next.
Lawyer and PhD candidate Christina Georgaki credits the incumbent administration’s policy changes for driving increasing FDI into Greece.
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Karl Haddad is incensed about venal Cypriot officials, kept busy all day by his newborn child, and finds solace in the poetry of The Prophet.
John Hanafin isn’t worried about IM programs closing because new ones are always around the corner. He also owes David Regueiro a few beers.
“Tremendous surge of interest in European residence programs means new opportunities,” says Alexey Nosovsky.
Pedro Catão Pinheiro also says he’ll never forget the gratitude of the family from war-torn Syria that he helped get to Portugal in 2016.
ZiYou Tian, who develops design-driven real estate projects in Portugal, says rising inflation makes budgeting for construction a challenge.
“The Chinese are normally far-sighted, so this change of heart is surprising. At least at this magnitude,” says Philippe May about the market slump.
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Anatoliy Lyetayev: In a startling turn of events, the US Embassy in Moscow has announced it will limit its services to emergencies only.
In his interview with Anatoliy Lyetayev, Roger Ver says the US government is lying about how many Americans are renouncing their citizenship.
HNWI-population growth shows Kenya is on the path to creating large pools of potential clients. Now, all they need is awareness of RCBI.
Anatoliy Lyetayev offers three reasons you might think twice before sending the next email from a Nigerian prince to your spam folder.
With Luc Lu
A seasoned RCBI-veteran keeps us abreast of trends in the world’s biggest investment migration market.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are under an iron- and ham-fisted lockdown. Their yearning for freedom is reviving the market for migration.
Getting money and people out of China has never been more fraught with risk than in 2020, writes Luc Lu.
Chinese millennials are now the world’s biggest group of investor migrants. And among them, the most active of all are the “sea turtles”.
In this second installment, Luc Lu illustrates why China’s millennials are hyper-vigilant about health and skeptical about Chinese education.
With David Lesperance
A contrarian expert on contingency plans for the wealthy delivers accurate, though not always kind, analysis.
Abramovich recently picked up another citizenship by descent, this time in Portugal. Millions more should do the same, says David Lesperance.
Groups like ICIJ will keep leaking private financial data but, with the right structures, it needn’t be a problem, explains David Lesperance.
Morgan claimed David Lesperance was spreading misinformation and called for “validated facts”. Today, Lesperance delivers just that in spades.
While applying under current rules is possible until the end of the year, in practice, you have until the end of September, writes David Lesperance.
With Kenneth Green
A native of the Caribbean explores what role citizenship by investment has to play in shaping the region’s economic future.
There’s no reason local Caribbean CBI firms should remain the invisible workhorses of slick middlemen from Europe, writes Kenneth Green.
In travel, being invisible is the goal. Using personal anecdotes, Kenneth Green explains the CBI industry’s role in making that possible.
Dual shocks to both the tourism and CBI sectors is far from the only challenge staring the Caribbean in the face in 2020, writes Kenneth Green.
Kenneth Green urges CIP countries not to waste the opportunities the crisis provides by digitizing, taking rainy-day funds seriously, and focusing on value.
With Michael Krakat
Legal Scholar Michael B. Krakat observes investment migration through the lens of international, constitutional, and administrative law.
Michael Krakat argues that the solution RCBI-skepticism is to tie the investor directly and visibly to particular – and commendable – projects.
Part 2 of Michael Krakat’s series on how concepts of nationhood and citizenship are perceived differently in the South Pacific and what that means for CBI planners.
Australia has made it a criminal offense for its citizens to return if they’ve recently been in India. Michael Krakat questions the legality of this move.
In the South Pacific’s small island states, the notion of citizenship doesn’t have the same meaning as in the cultures whence it came.
With Aaron L. Grau
Executive Director of IIUSA, the EB-5 Regional Center Program’s advocacy group, writes about the program’s legislative prospects.
Now that the regional center program has lapsed, maintaining EB-5 capital at-risk through redeployment poses challenges, writes Aaron Grau.
What do “budget reconciliations,” “continuing resolutions,” “omnibuses,” and “minibuses” mean for the future of EB-5? Aaron Grau answers.
Tens of thousands of lawsuits could stem from the Regional Center Program’s lapse, warns IIUSA’s Executive Director Aaron L. Grau.
“The reason for the rule matters when it comes to how the EB-5 program fulfills the policy’s purpose,” writes IIUSA Executive Director Aaron Grau.
With Stephane Tajick
An investment migration researcher shares his observations of the long-term historical trajectories of global programs.
Stephane Tajick believes it’s time we start thinking about how to adapt to a world without citizenship by investment.
Stephane Tajick has spent the last year catering to the growing US market for investment migration. Here’s what he’s learned.
Indebted EU countries could stave off insolvency by selling citizenship. But tact and compromise are required to make that politically feasible, writes Stephane Tajick.
Stephane Tajick laments that Montenegro’s government never gave the country’s CIP a chance to prove its mettle before settling its fate.
Which programs have American investor migrants been applying to in 2020 and 2021 YTD? Here’s the data we have confirmed so far.
Barred from leaving the country and with processing for their favorite programs suspended, how have Vietnamese investor migrants fared this year?
Investment migration people int he news this week.
“This is not a passive investment program, and does require active participation from the candidate,” says Harvey [about Canada’s SUV].
See 300+ graphs, charts, and tables on 30+ investment migration programs and markets in the IMI Data Center
No Syrians, no Kurds, and no explanation from the Dominica CIU. Iranians, however, are once more welcome to apply for citizenship.
Priced at $10.3 million, the compound is expected to be completed in 2023.
Grenada’s CIP recorded yet another all-time revenue high in 2021 (for the fifth year in a row) while also breaking a litany of other records.
Ireland finally joined the exclusive billion-euro golden visa club at the end of last year, almost entirely thanks to Chinese investment.
Though the Ministry will only confirm the number in December, Spain likely approved its 13,000th golden visa in the second half of last year.
Investment in golden visa funds has already surpassed last year’s total, indicating fund investment could more than triple this year.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are under an iron- and ham-fisted lockdown. Their yearning for freedom is reviving the market for migration.
It’s not just you. Chinese investor migrants really ARE becoming fewer and farther between, according to the most recent data.
Until recently the world’s undisputedly largest source of investor migrants, China’s IM market has become a shadow of its former self. Why?
Investment-based visas are now valid for 10 years and at much lower minimum investment requirements than in the past.
Turkish ministers have reportedly decided in a recent meeting to change the program regulations and raise the minimum investment requirement.
As Russians are increasingly excluded from residence and citizenship by investment programs globally, Turkey’s CIP remains open.
Sri Lanka is sorely in need of foreign currency to pay for food and energy imports. Now, the government hopes a golden visa can bring cash.
After two years of falling approvals and investments, all arrows finally point in the right direction for New Zealand’s investor visas.
In a “Hail Mary” effort to ward off the suspension, Vanuatu is establishing a national task force to review and improve its CBI procedures.
USCIS last week shocked the EB5 market by saying all regional centers will need redesignation. That’s not the case, say congressional leaders.
All Regional Center designations are now defunct and all entities seeking to recruit RC-based investors must file for designation again.
Congressmen aiming to end visa-waivers for countries with CIPs learn that 70% of visa-waiver countries have investment migration programs.
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