Following the initial shock in spring 2020 that sent inquiry volumes plummeting worldwide, investment migration has emerged from the pandemic stronger than ever.
In our annual survey, industry executives identified the Saint Lucia CIU as the most efficient processing unit last year. CIU-boss Nestor Alfred shares details of the turnaround operation in this interview.
The Mobility Standard hosts Murat Coskun to understand the future of golden visa investment fund options, in Portugal and beyond.
Richard Moir and Kristin Surak consider how the pandemic has transformed investor migrants’ preferences.
Mohammed Asaria warns of legal action against competitors he says employ “dirty tricks”. Vanuatu assures its Schengen-access is not imperiled.
The UAE says it will naturalize investors. Industry leaders are cautiously optimistic about the new law, and ready to assist in making it a program.
The heads of Harvey Law Group and CS Global outline what effects they expect the pandemic to have on the investment migration market in 2021 and beyond.
“The system will not return to what it was: Nationality will not suffice to guarantee safe passage,” Dr. Khanna writes.
The pandemic’s shifting of populations away from expensive megacities is an opportunity for investment migration, writes Stephane Tajick.
2020 has been investment migration’s most turbulent year yet. We review the biggest stories and trends in investment migration in the year that’s finally drawing to a close.
“Health passports may be a proto-version of global citizenship from the ground-up, attached to bodies not borders,” writes Michael Krakat.
Judging by the number of top-flight RCBI firms that have entered the market over the last two years, Nigeria is Africa’s “next big thing”.
Thanks to the technological advances Nicola Mangion explores in her article, forgetting your passport at home may soon be a non-issue.
The national debt burden is borne by the public. If you are a citizen, you are part of “the public”.
How prepared are small CIP countries for a potential deluge of CBI-citizens who want to move to their COVID-free islands when borders reopen?
3 in 4 millionaires live in the “West” and display little interest in alternative residency or citizenship. What if that changed?
Michael B. Krakat argues that, during crises, apprehensions about RCBI tend to diminish, temporarily clearing the path for expansion.
Where the biggest international firms in our industry keep offices says a great deal about the industry’s history – and future.
The Vanuatu Development Support program stood out by nearly tripling its number of designated agents during the period, from 30 to 87.
Between 2015 and 2017, one in five Antigua CIP investors chose the real estate option. In the last two years, only one in forty did. Why?