Türkiye CIP: How Price Hike Impacted Demand and Why The Program May Not Survive the Election
Demand for Turkish CBI still robust, but program’s future isn’t guaranteed. “We may not have a program by this time next year,” says Polding.
Thailand’s Low-Tax “Long Term Resident” Visa Opens Next Month: How Does it Compare to Elite Residence?
HNWIs under 50 will have to make a careful cost-benefit analysis when choosing between the Long Term Resident and Elite Residence visas.
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Court Orders SEF to Grant Appointment to Golden Visa Investor Within 10 Days Following Unreasonable Delays
The ruling could be “an important precedent and be used as a paradigm to guide the judgment of similar cases,” says the plaintiff’s lawyer.
Portugal’s Golden Visa Has Raised €1.7 Million a Day for Nearly 10 Years Straight
And 2022 is poised to be the program’s best year since 2018.
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Opinion
The Crypto Investor’s Five-Step Roadmap to a Low-Tax, High Quality Life in a New Jurisdiction
David Lesperance outlines the five carefully planned steps crypto investors must take to successfully upgrade to a better tax jurisdiction.
Türkiye CIP: How Price Hike Impacted Demand and Why The Program May Not Survive the Election
Demand for Turkish CBI still robust, but program’s future isn’t guaranteed. “We may not have a program by this time next year,” says Polding.
Analysis
Antigua CIU Engaging EU to “Avert Overall Shutdown of the Sector”, Laments Lack of Regional Cooperation
Antigua & Barbuda’s information minister says his government has offered to let the EU audit the citizenship by investment program.
Court Orders SEF to Grant Appointment to Golden Visa Investor Within 10 Days Following Unreasonable Delays
The ruling could be “an important precedent and be used as a paradigm to guide the judgment of similar cases,” says the plaintiff’s lawyer.
Thailand’s Low-Tax “Long Term Resident” Visa Opens Next Month: How Does it Compare to Elite Residence?
HNWIs under 50 will have to make a careful cost-benefit analysis when choosing between the Long Term Resident and Elite Residence visas.
Reported US Citizenship Renunciations Nearly Triple in Q2 as More Consulates Grant Interviews
Lesperance: “Half of my clients are concerned that the Democrats will keep the House [in November]. The other half are concerned they won’t.”
Columns
Thailand’s Low-Tax “Long Term Resident” Visa Opens Next Month: How Does it Compare to Elite Residence?
Ahmad Abbas
August 14, 2022
HNWIs under 50 will have to make a careful cost-benefit analysis when choosing between the Long Term Resident and Elite Residence visas.
Russia’s Golden Visa to Launch on Jan 1st: Now “Primarily of Interest to Chinese”
July 24, 2022
Analysts expect “primarily Chinese” investors to take advantage of the program to occupy niches vacated by recently departed Western firms.
New Zealand Issues Sweeping Changes to Investor Visas: Minimums of NZ$5-15 Million
July 20, 2022
Minimum investment requirements and minimum stay requirements both increase as New Zealand aims for investors who play a more active role.
Cambodia Launches $100,000 Golden Visa With 5-Year Path to Citizenship
July 15, 2022
Cambodia enters the Southeast Asian golden visa market: A $100,000 property investment and eligibility for citizenship in five years.
Antigua & Barbuda Becomes 2nd Caribbean CBI Country to Re-Open for Russian, Belarusian Applicants
July 9, 2022
Ukrainians – in a grimly ironic twist – remain excluded from the program because of the very belligerence to which they have fallen prey.
Grenada CIP Head Confirms: Non-Sanctioned Russians Welcome to Apply Again, on Case-by-Case Basis
June 29, 2022
Non-sanctioned Russian and Belarusian investors are officially welcome to apply to Grenada’s citizenship by investment program again.
SEF Resumes Biometrics Appointment Bookings for Golden Visa Applicants (Except for Renewals)
June 24, 2022
“The real backlog”, says Pedro Catão Pinheiro, “is still ahead of us. It will come with the wave of applications filed on June 15th.”
Why Don’t More Investment Migration Companies Promote Italy’s “Dolce Visa”?
Dario Montagnese
Italy as a destination sells itself, argues Dario Montagnese. All RCBI advisors need to do is let investors know it also has a golden visa.
6 Global Economic Effects of The War in Ukraine And What They Mean for Investment Migration
Andrés Solimano
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.
If the CBI Industry Wants to Survive, it Needs to Muster a Concerted Effort – Immediately
Nuri Katz
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.”
St-Hilaire: Vanuatu Was Only the Beginning – Brussels Is on a Crusade Against Global Mobility
Martin St-Hilaire
By attacking CIPs in small, defenseless countries with no allies, EU politicians rack up PR points at zero cost, writes Martin St-Hilaire.
Portugal’s Golden Visa Has Raised €1.7 Million a Day for Nearly 10 Years Straight
Christian Henrik Nesheim
August 9, 2022
And 2022 is poised to be the program’s best year since 2018.
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Henderson: While Demand From Casual Traders Slims, “HODLers” Use Crypto Winter to Execute RCBI Plans
August 4, 2022
Henderson: Long-haulers see the downturn as” an opportunity to go back to end-of-2020 prices and, essentially, wipe out that tax liability.”
Reported US Citizenship Renunciations Nearly Triple in Q2 as More Consulates Grant Interviews
July 28, 2022
Lesperance: “Half of my clients are concerned that the Democrats will keep the House [in November]. The other half are concerned they won’t.”
Dubai Still Top Hub for RCBI Companies; 3 Firms Present in 20+ Markets; Istanbul is Rising Star
July 27, 2022
See which RCBI firms are expanding and contracting their global office footprints, as well as which countries they are entering and leaving.
Q3 CBI Agents Update: Two More Agents Blacklisted in Caribbean, 15 New Licensees Globally
July 25, 2022
The global number of CBI agents is growing at a decent clip again. Both Dominica and Saint Kitts & Nevis add to their CBI agent blacklists.
Panama Independent Means Visa Approvals Surge in 2022, Investor Visa Interest Dips Further
July 13, 2022
Panama’s independent means visas could reach all-time highs this year, while the Friendly Nations Visa is losing its luster, now that it requires an investment.
New Zealand Investor Visa Revenue Back With a Post-Pandemic Vengeance in FY2022
July 8, 2022
2021-22 results brought the program’s performance from nadir to zenith within a year in which it raised NZ$1 billion from just 100 investors.
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Podcast: Jeremy Savory on Running a CBI Business in Hyper-Competitive Dubai
August 1, 2022
Savory & Partners founder Jeremy Savory on running a CBI business in Dubai, becoming a Portugal resident, and the potential of Turkey.
Proud Advisor to A “New CIP Launching in the Coming Months”: 10 on The Weekend – Karl Haddad
January 29, 2022
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.
Golden Visas Account for Just 3% of Property Deals in Portugal: IM People in the News This Week
August 5, 2022
“[…] China’s investment push, which was understood to be part of ‘a fire sale launched by a desperate government in a bankrupt country.’”
Since You Asked: American Investor Migrant Statistics 2020 and 2021 YTD
November 6, 2021
Which programs have American investor migrants been applying to in 2020 and 2021 YTD? Here’s the data we have confirmed so far.
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