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Don’t discount Moldova’s CIP just yet.

Program authorities are also making great strides in dealing with their extensive backlog of unprocessed applications.

Vanuatu has revoked the citizenships of four Chinese fraud-suspects and extradited them to China. Whether due process was granted remains an open question.

An analysis of the more than 600 firms registered in the Residence and Citizenship by Investment Company Directory shows that some 60% of companies are tiny.

Hyong-Jin KWON Paris   An estimated 700,000 dual citizens aged more than 22 live in Japan and an even more

Our dynamic bar chart shows how the volume and demographic make-up of EB-5 visa grants have changed drastically over the last two decades.

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Many low tax jurisdictions also offer CIP and residency programs, and the overlap between the two previously distinct industries is now nearly complete.

What had initially been a residency program with a path to citizenship is shaping up to become a bona fide CIP without the need for a residence period.

Eyes are now on the Senate’s deliberation on S386. Should it pass as well, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act goes to the president for signing.

These ten programs brought in the most money to their respective countries last year. One program alone made up more than half the market.

Stakeholders warn that removing per-country caps without also increasing the number of available visas will not solve the program’s capacity problem.

Samuel thanked the Sharjah Directorate of Residency for “their initiative to contact him and introduce him to the golden visa system.”

Deregulation took away the big companies’ competitive edge. To regain margins, many are turning to deceptive practices, writes Luc Lu.

Should Q1 prove an indication of an overall trend rather than an anomaly, Grenada can expect to beat its all-time record from 2018 this year.

In the absence of a substantial shift in the trend-line, 2019 will be the worst-performing year since scandal-prone 2015.

EB-5 practitioners are holding their breath ahead of the publication of new program rules that could see minimum investment requirements nearly triple.

The OECS has decided to cooperate on CIPs with standardized applications, an oversight committee, and counter-propaganda. Carlyle Rogers asks: Will it work?

Using retrogression analysis, PhD candidates in Political Science Ömer Zarpli and Uğur Altundal of, respectively, the University of Pittsburgh and

Greece has put plans for the EUR 400,000 share, bond, and deposit options on ice as it braces for a snap election on July 7th.

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