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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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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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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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Vanuatu has revoked the citizenships of four Chinese fraud-suspects and extradited them to China. Whether due process was granted remains an open question.
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Deregulation took away the big companies’ competitive edge. To regain margins, many are turning to deceptive practices, writes Luc Lu.
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David Chen, Founder of Visas Consulting, explains why he thinks more Chinese firms should join the IMC to protect Europe’s investment migration market.
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Over the past few years, China has increasingly promoted the concept of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” and implemented policies to promote it nationwide. Now, China is extending the target audience of this concept to include foreign nationals. Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, as early as in May 2018, had already launched a brand-new “private affairs”
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Conservative estimates say there are more than 5,000 investment migration agencies in China. These are the biggest.
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In a case that has both Greek and Chinese authorities investigating what they say are criminal activity, an Athens-based real estate investment company headed by the former executive chairman of one of the country’s largest retailers has become the focus of media attention in Greece over the last week. According to Tornos News, authorities claim
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This article was contributed by Daniel Twomey, Head of Business Development at La Vida Europe Ltd. Since its inception in 2012, the largest proportion of applicants for the Portuguese Golden Visa (GV) programme have, without doubt, been Chinese. In recent years, however, there’s been a steady decline in demand from Chinese applicants; a decline that
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Press release via Business Wire: A group of more than 450 Chinese EB-5 investors are suing the U.S. government to challenge visa policies that keep investors waiting up to 15 years to come to the United States. American Lending Center (ALC), one of America’s leading EB-5 regional centers, has joined the suit to support and
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This article was written by Luc Lu, Investment Migration Insider’s official partner in China. Fewer than one in ten Chinese hold a passport. That figure contains within it a large proportion of students and tourists, the two main catalysts of international travel among the Chinese. Such a low percentage of passport-holders, seen in conjunction with
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This article was written by Luc Lu, Investment Migration Insider’s official partner in China In China’s migration market, the emergence of the global digital commercial age has been accompanied by an internet “reform”, which has helped domestic migration firms save a great deal of effort and money on marketing. The previously preferred traditional media tools –
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The Hurun Research Institute in association with Visas Consulting Group (a leading Chinese immigration company) has released the Immigration and the Chinese HNWI 2018 report which includes the “Chinese Immigration Index”, a ranking based on an investment migration program’s suitability for Chinese applicants, the “Preferred Destinations for Immigration Ranking”, as well as a variety of
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Yesterday, a news outlet based in the Caribbean published a story claiming Mohammed Asaria – founder of Range Developments, the developer of Park Hyatt Saint Kitts, the Cabrits Resort in Dominica, as well as the Six Senses Saint Kitts – had been arrested and detained in China on suspicion of illegal fundraising. Range Developments have
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Official figures from Portugal’s Immigration and Borders Service show that while the country’s Golden Visa program raised €103M in April, interest in the program is falling rapidly, particularly among the Chinese. Highlights from this month’s Portugal Golden Visa statistical release: – China remains the top source country for applications, with 34 main applicants obtaining their golden
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The big Chinese investment migration firms have thus far not been successful in penetrating the fast-growing market neighboring them to the south, despite geographical proximity, as well as political and economic similarities. Investment migration practitioners with decades of experience in the Vietnamese market say a clash of cultures is to blame. During a panel discussion
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Applications to Australia’s Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program has fallen from an average of 46 a month during the 2015/2016 fiscal year to just 13 a month between July 2017 and January this year. Driving the collapse in demand are tighter regulations and competition from European programs. In its first three years, Australia granted an average of
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Investment Migration Insider last week reported that Shanghai’s municipal government had announced it would instate, by May 1st, a policy of canceling the hukou (household registration) of Shanghai residents found to have obtained a permanent residence permit abroad. Read: China to Forcibly Cancel Household Registration of Chinese Holding Foreign Residence Permits Following a series of strong reactions,
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In a story that has alarmed hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese, the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government has issued a statement on its official WeChat account in which it informs readers that Chinese nationals holding a foreign permanent residence permit (PR) will have to cancel their Shanghai hukou (户口 – household registration) or have it forcibly
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