Stephane Tajick provides an in-depth overview of the EU’s legislative procedures around investment migration. What are the potential outcomes? At which junctures can the industry influence the process? And what timeline are we working with?
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Stephane Tajick believes it’s time we start thinking about how to adapt to a world without citizenship by investment.
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Stephane Tajick has spent the last year catering to the growing US market for investment migration. Here’s what he’s learned.
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Indebted EU countries could stave off insolvency by selling citizenship. But tact and compromise are required to make that politically feasible, writes Stephane Tajick.
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Stephane Tajick laments that Montenegro’s government never gave the country’s CIP a chance to prove its mettle before settling its fate.
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As Canada and Quebec battle the COVID-19 pandemic with curfews and travel restrictions, the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) is getting ready for a showdown that will decide its fate.
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The pandemic’s shifting of populations away from expensive megacities is an opportunity for investment migration, writes Stephane Tajick.
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Plenty of governments want to design RCBI programs that help them grow their economies. Few understand what it takes, writes Stephane Tajick.
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Investment migration firms are taking client fees on the presumption that their applications will be processed in the future. What if that doesn’t happen?
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When governments find the economic benefits of investment migration programs fall short, they should ask themselves who designed them in the first place.
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Applicants to golden visa programs around the world are made to wait years for approval. That puts an unnecessary damper on demand, writes Stephane Tajick.
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Startup visas are too customized, risky, hands-on, and low-margin to catch on at a grand scale, argues Stephane Tajick.
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Interest in the Thailand Elite Residence Program is growing at a ferocious pace. Permit issuances are up 64% on the year, and have grown by a factor of eleven in just four years. The Thailand Elite Residence Program has
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This is the second in a two-part series on now-defunct residence and citizenship by investment programs. This week, we look
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This is the first in a two-part series on now-defunct residence and citizenship by investment programs. This week, we look
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As part of its plan to reduce overall immigration to the province, the government of Quebec is cutting the number
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Recently, the EU Parliament published a draft report on financial crimes, tax evasion, and tax avoidance. This draft report “Concludes that
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Researcher Stephane Tajick explores the near-to-medium term future of the RCBI-market, and tries to predict the industry’s role in the
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On the 20th of September, the whole investment migration industry in Canada was holding its breath before the airing of
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This article was contributed by regular columnist Stephane Tajick. For more articles by Stephane, see the “Tajick’s Take” column. The
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