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.
In this panel, we’ve brought together representatives from each step on the way to a new citizenship in Grenada and a residency permit in the United States:
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What pandemic? Even during the worst month of the COVID-19 outbreak, Portugal’s golden visa program raised more than EUR 28 million, fresh figures show.
Changes to the structure and minimum amounts of the real estate and bond investments, as well as the contribution, are likely, writes Andres Gutierrez.
COVID-19 may well give rise to the mother of all economic crises. Fortunate, then, that economic crises are the father of investment migration programs.
So far, five out of the six approved projects are located in the country’s north, where minimum investment requirements for the CIP are considerably lower.
A first for the industry, the CAT allows investment migration advisors to quickly compare which visa-free countries one citizenship offers over another.
The net drop in the number of accredited agents worldwide represents the first significant reduction since we began measuring at the end of 2018.
“To accelerate the course of growth in the coming months, we will seek to lift the bureaucratic obstacles that currently exist in the property market.”
Malta will use more of its MIIP-income to respond to COVID-19. But, as the pandemic limits application volumes, will the policy change make any difference?
Even among those whose portfolios have taken a painful beating, willingness to consider RCBI programs has held up well.
The Thailand Privilege Card Company said it expected total memberships to pass a historic 10,000 milestone this fiscal year, in spite of the pandemic.
“The IMC established that Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti has not acted against IMC Codes in the case that was subject to investigation,” wrote the organization.
Maltese government: “The importance of such a programme for an economy that has suffered from a devastating pandemic is growing, rather than diminishing.”
“I take full responsibility for the incident, and would like to apologise to the broader IMI readership,” writes Gareth Brookes in his apology letter.