Bulgaria and Romania Join Schengen: Visa-Free Travel by Air and Sea for Residence Permit Holders From April
From Q2 this year, those who hold visas to Bulgaria and Romania will be able to travel freely within the Schengen area, writes Ivan Petrov.
From Q2 this year, those who hold visas to Bulgaria and Romania will be able to travel freely within the Schengen area, writes Ivan Petrov.
Robust FDI, a central bank committed to disinflation, and thriving real estate and services sectors: Turkey’s economy is on the move.
With a path to citizenship in just six months for investors, the Dominican Republic’s investor visa is effectively a CBI program.
How to strategically parlay citizenship in one gateway country into access to multiple others with Supranational Settlement Blocs (SSBs).
David Lesperance makes three predictions for the investment migration market in 2024, and takes stock of how his predictions for 2023 did.
You can now obtain residency in Saudi Arabia based on investment, proven financial means, skills, or startup financing.
EB-5 application volume more than tripled in 2023 compared to the two preceding years. But 4 in 10 applicants are getting rejected.
In recognition of processing delays, Portugal will let residents count their five years to naturalization from the day they applied, rather than from the approval date.
Don’t expect Portugal’s tumultuous immigration field to be much calmer in 2024, write immigration lawyers Sara Sousa Rebolo and Miguel Silva.
Kemal Nicholson of Cinvest Migration details the most salient lessons he’s learned while running an investment migration firm.
LatAm offers high-quality citizenships within short timeframes. Here’s how long it takes to naturalize in each Latin American country.
Approval of Portuguese residency in weeks rather than months, at a lower cost and with lots of flexibility. Learn more about the HQA visa from our Official Partners at Empowered Startups.
When investment migration firms get too big, it’s no longer an intimate service but a production line driven by numbers and fast-paced sales.
Four years after the scandal first broke, the most prominent defendants in the case are getting their day in court – and pleading not guilty.
The stories that really captured the attention of IMI’s readers in 2023, from Portugal’s golden visa saga to Dominica’s loss of visa-free UK.
Vincent Fong: “The [MM2H] requirements may get more stringent over time. It is very likely after the one-year special edition is over.”
The onerous ultimate beneficial ownership reporting requirements under which Europeans have long labored are now coming to America too.
Charles Savva last week argued Hungary’s new golden visa is an inferior proposition. Today, Laszlo Kiss presents nine counter-arguments.
The golden visa has raised EUR 45 million per WEEK for Greece in 2023. Now, the socialist opposition wants to end the program.
Chetcuti’s correct explanations were “in vain, as the journalists nevertheless imply the opposite in voice-over in the broadcast.”
Hungary will grant temporary status to those who invest EUR 500,000 in directly held real estate. Competitors offer permanent status for half the price, Charles Savva points out.
Everything you could possibly want from an investment migration event across four magical and exotic days in Egypt.
Dominica has now enshrined most of the “6 CBI Principles” in regulation, and prohibits name changes. Antigua offers a Q&A on CBI interviews.
Optimize provides a detailed roadmap for getting your Portuguese EU residency through fund investment while minimizing risk.
Malaysia has made its MM2H program more attainable for most people. But market observers say the reforms will not suffice to tip the scales.
Marco Cerrato […] says the scrapping of Portugal’s special tax regime “plays in favour for Italy and other countries”.
The Minister admits to have spoken out of turn: Russians, Belarusians, Iranians, and North Koreans remain banned from the Grenada CIP.
Minister Thomas said the CBI program is once more open to applicants of any nationality, the 4th such policy change in under two years.
Tipolis is working with host states to develop, own, and operate privately governed autonomous cities worldwide. Get in on the ground floor.
Siren Chen summarizes the last few years’ changing terms of the Turkey CIP and outlines what we can expect next.
Only 4 out of 11 citizenship by investment programs are adequately transparent, and the gap between the top and the bottom is widening.
El Salvador will grant citizenship to families that donate $1 million. Hype alone isn’t enough to command that price, argues Brian Greco.
An EU member strategically located between MENA and Europe, Malta is a perfect place to set up a bank account, trust, or business, writes Vertex Alliance.
Hungary is fast-tracking its new golden visa by nine months and will give the program preferential processing in the first two months of 2024.
The owner of a well-known Dominica CBI property is charged, along with a friend, with double homicide and faces a potential death sentence.
Despite sharply falling foreign demand for Turkish real estate, the government reportedly plans to raise qualification thresholds for CBI.
Our guest in this episode, Henry Fan of Globevisa, is determined to do his job to enable freedom of movement for as many people as possible.
Citizenship by descent policies are more valuable than ever, but the process is more complex than most think, writes Patrick McFawn.
The sensitive intel we’ve gathered but cannot publish yet. This special edition of our Private Briefing is twice as big as normal.
“To regulate the industry as a whole may be a good project to have, but I’m not sure it can get off the ground,” author Kristin Surak tells IMI.
The MM2H closed for new applications last month pending revised terms. Stakeholders hope for sharply reduced costs, writes Jolie Zhang.
“I wouldn’t invest my money, seeing that there may be a risk of my golden visa being jeopardized,” says Murat Coskun about hospitality funds.
Turkey and the EU have revived talks regarding a new visa agreement, which could provide a significant economic boost to both.
Throughout the report, FATF suggests corrective measures that are already in place in most RBI and nearly all CBI programs, writes Ahmad Abbas.
Hungary already offers two routes to residency by investment and is about to get a third. Learn about one of the EU’s best residency solutions.
The French court found the two media executives guilty of criminal defamation and imposed a fine and moral damages in favor of Chetcuti.
The program raised more than EUR 400 million from some 1,100 applicants in its short-lived life. Only 484 have been approved so far.
Saint Kitts officials claim the refund-troubles arose from decisions of the former administration. That is not true, writes Maxim Zharkov.
Unprofessional practitioners who tarnish the image of investment migration are an existential threat to the industry, writes Charles Savva.
Resource-independent, far from conflicts, and with some of the world’s simplest migration programs, LatAm has become a flag theory hotspot.
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