Sri Lanka Cabinet Approves Plans for $75,000 Golden Visa
Sri Lanka is sorely in need of foreign currency to pay for food and energy imports. Now, the government hopes a golden visa can bring cash.
Read moreSri Lanka is sorely in need of foreign currency to pay for food and energy imports. Now, the government hopes a golden visa can bring cash.
Read moreAfter two years of falling approvals and investments, all arrows finally point in the right direction for New Zealand’s investor visas.
Read moreIn a “Hail Mary” effort to ward off the suspension, Vanuatu is establishing a national task force to review and improve its CBI procedures.
Read more“I do not see any way to please the EU other than stopping the whole program,” says St-Hilaire, while Harris thinks it’s not over yet.
Read moreVanuatu’s worst-case scenario becomes a reality as the European Council decides to revoke visa-free travel to the EU.
Read morePhilippe May and Martin St-Hilaire ask: Would it be the end of CBI in Vanuatu? Would a price cut be in order? Where would demand come from?
Read moreThe Attorney General and the FIU objected to the contract. Lack of unified messaging undermines the program, indicates Micha-Rose Emmett.
Read moreMartin St-Hilaire points to red herrings, straw man arguments, and other deliberate fallacies the European Commission uses against Vanuatu.
Read moreVanuatu appoints international partners and promises retroactive due diligence. Industry observers offer reactions to the EU’s announcement.
Read moreThe European Commission has formally proposed that the Council partially suspend visa-free Schengen access for Vanuatu passport holders.
Read moreVietnamese, Iranian, South African, Indian, and British applicants all saw approvals far above historical norms, even adjusting for the higher quota.
Read moreThe REO will be a separate program from the other two and will have a minimum (joint) investment of US$100,000. Additional fees will apply.
Read moreLeading the race to become the world’s newest independent state, Bougainville sorely needs capital. Could a CIP be the answer?
Read moreFollowing fervent feedback from stakeholders, Malaysia decides to grandfather in existing MM2Hers under the old rules, with two exceptions.
Read moreNew Zealand’s Investor Visa, which but a few years ago raised more than a billion NZ dollars a year, remains virtually dead 19 months after the onset of the pandemic.
Read moreMM2H: Former minister warns rejections could soar; Malaysia could lose out on US$12 billion to competing programs; Dependents went unvetted.
Read moreVanuatu’s banks are having relationship problems.
Read moreFollowing sharp criticism from MM2H stakeholders and the Sultan of Johor, the Home Minister promises to “take another look” at the new rules, at least as they apply to long-term residents.
Read moreVanuatu has called in favors from bigger partner countries to help get its citizens out of Afghanistan. But the family hasn’t been heard from in days.
Read moreVanuatu already lets agents accept crypto and the government itself will now accept multiple fiat currencies from agents. Laszlo Kiss explains why.
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