The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
In 2018, reports Vanuatu’s Ministry of Finance and Treasury, CBI-related revenue reached such unprecedented levels that, for the first time in the country’s history, it displaced VAT-receipts as the government’s single biggest source of funds. “In 2018, revenue from the honorary citizenship programs overtook that of VAT for the first time. The Government remains careful
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Not since the entry price was half of today’s – five years ago – have more Hongkongers obtained UK Tier 1 Investor visas in a single quarter.
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The Residence and Citizenship by Investment Company Directory contains 732 firms that offer investment migration services. 102 of these have registered offices in China. These include all of China’s 50 largest RCBI-firms and, while there are thousands of small immigration outfits in China, we believe the sample size is large enough to be representative. We
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Greek property just got a whole lot cheaper. The new government has declared it will not collect VAT on real estate investments for the next three years.
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Burning down a citizenship by investment program to become king of the ashes is not credible nor effective, writes Carlyle Rogers.
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The platform model is tranforming the Chinese migration market by reducing the distance between clients and overseas agents. It’s also planted a time-bomb.
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Confirming the prediction from last year, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has confirmed in his budget address that revenue from the country’s citizenship by investment program will represent 25% of GDP and some 51% of government revenue in the fiscal year 2019-20, WIC News reports. The statement highlights the criticality of the program in sustaining
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As anti-Beijing protests enter their third month in Hong Kong, service providers say inquiries about investment migration are surging.
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Both sides of the aisle fling scathing allegations as the citizenship by investment program takes center stage in the political debate ahead of possible elections.
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ETIAS, currently under development and slated to debut in 2021, will have implications for the investment migration market. Here’s what you need to know.
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Questions this week: Can you finance your investment in a CIP or Golden Visa? How many people apply to CIPs globally each year?
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“Malta takes these matters very seriously,” the head of Malta’s IIP Agency told IMI.
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If Latvia’s golden visa performs as well in the second half of 2019 as it did in the first, application volume will grow by nearly 50% on the year.
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Sun Xiang obtained citizenship of Saint Kitts by investment in 2011. A year later, he became a congressman in China. This week, the government found out.
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Henley & Partners said it looked forward to working with the Moldovan government to “fully re-evaluate and relaunch the citizenship by investment program”.
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Not since March 2018 has the SEF approved more applications in a single month than it did in July, and never has it approved more Brazilians.
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While Malta publishes all the names of new citizens as is required by law, Cyprus prohibits such publication. Who is right?
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As an immigration lawyer, I feel more in control of the outcome – and that the program is much more predictable – if I am told everything.”
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In the first four months of 2019, revenue from Vanuatu’s two citizenship by investment programs nearly equaled the amount raised in all of 2017.
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Upon expiry of the moratorium, the government will have the right to extend it for another two months.
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