Investment Migration Insider

The new minimum places Italy’s investment low end of the cost-spectrum among European golden visas but also calls for a much higher level of risk tolerance.

Saint Lucia’s CIU-boss Nestor Alfred looks forward to a time when he can finally see the glass half-full – of Merlot.

As professional advisors everywhere fall over themselves to get face-time with UHNWIs, Malta, Cyprus, and the EU itself are playing catch-and-release.

Alexander Zvarkovskiy, a recent program graduate, say he’s “better equipped and more confident now to operate in this ever-changing industry.”

“The UK could lose over £350m of foreign direct investment if universities move classes online during the next academic year,” Farzin Yazdi estimates.

“It is a program that could have helped in economic recovery, with this pandemic. To the business community, it is deplorable,” said lawyer Maxime Lapointe.

Promises not to undercut each other are all well and good but, when things get rough, they are the first commitments to go out the window.

The government is heeding the advice of practitioners and speeding up golden visa processing. Their zeal, unfortunately, isn’t matched by local authorities.

6 luxury detached villas, each with a private swimming pool, along with 34 two-bedroom apartments, overlooking the bay of Gumusluk.

Hakan Cortelek, who has 15 years behind his belt in the industry, says today’s booming market and the plethora of programs is owed to a handful of pioneers.

“No amount of discounts or special offers will re-create the demand enjoyed over the past period until globalisation returns to the crease,” writes Mohammed Asaria.

In practice, the changes enable investors to pay for the property from abroad, rather than by first opening a Greek bank account, without excess risk.

Families of six or more members applying under the University of the West Indies Fund option will henceforth see their overall cost reduced by US$35,000.

“In the aftermath of coronavirus, in my opinion, the amendments to the golden visa program will never take place as planned,” says Dr. Gali Macedo.

The government is actively studying best practices among European residence by investment programs with an eye to launching their own in July 2021.

St. Lucia becomes the first CIP-jurisdiction to offer a major price reduction in response to the pandemic with the introduction of the COVID-19 Relief Bond.

The first phase of the project is sold out, as well as all suites and the vast majority of the single title studios in the Matura building (phase 2).

Vanuatu’s new government wants more transparency for its two CIPs. Particularly for the VCP, a program exclusively operated by a single agent in Hong Kong.

The share of Québec Immigrant Investor Program participants who settled in the province had averaged 8% – until last year when it suddenly jumped.

James Harris, a former British Army officer once stationed east of the iron curtain, has discovered a latent passion for gardening during the lockdown.