The E2 Statistics Series Part 1: Rejection Rates Are Rising (Quickly)
While rejection rates are rising, refusal rates vary markedly between different applicant types; investors, managers, essential employees, and dependents.
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Intel & Data
Greek Golden Visa to Surpass 2,000 Main Applicants in 2019, 40% Ahead of Closest EU Competitor
Greece’s residence by investment program is raising €23 million a week. Already Europe’s most popular program by far, its application volumes keep growing.
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Total Revenue From Residence by Investment in Portugal to Pass €5 Billion Milestone Within Weeks
The milestone has only been reached by three other residence programs in history, but apps. hit a 17-month low in Nov and 2019 income is lowest since 2015.
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Southeast Asia is #1 Office Expansion Destination Among RCBI Firms
But Subcontinental Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi) are a faster-growing demographic segment of the client base, say heads of 40 global IM firms.
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UK Tier 1 Investor Visa Approvals Plummet 60% in Q3
Only 49 main applicants received Tier 1 Investor visas during the Q3 2019, a down from 124 in the preceding quarter.
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Dominica CIU Most Efficient in Processing Say 40% of International Investment Migration Firms
Cited by five times as many firms as the next CIU on the list, the Dominica CIU stood out for its efficiency in processing, likely thanks to automation.
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81% of IM Executives Say There Are Too Many Small, Unprofessional RCBI Firms
Executives disagreed on the proper price for Caribbean CIPs and the merits of unification, while most hoped for governments to tackle a glut of amateurs.
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Investment Migration CEOs Predict Grenada CIP Will Be Best-Seller This Year
The results from IMI’s 2019 Investment Migration Executive Survey are in.
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Investment Migration Programs by Revenue-per-Immigrant: New Zealand IV Tops Ranking
How much do the world’s investment migration programs bring in per immigrant, i.e., when counting the total number of passports/visas, including dependents?
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Revenues More Than Double for Saint Lucia CIP in 2018-19, But Approval Volume Remains Stable
Saint Lucia’s CIP is growing, but not as fast as some of its neighbors, a state of affairs its head of CIU attributes to the market’s price sensitivity
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After Three Years of Decline, Australia’s SIV Program Regains Momentum
The program’s largest fund manager says that, thanks to non-SIV follow-up investments, total FDI arising from the program may be close to A$50 billion.
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€5 Billion By Year’s End: Residency Investment in Portugal Picks Up 24% in October
Portugal’s golden visa program is just EUR 89 million away from passing the 5-billion-euro mark. The champagne-opening could take place as soon as next month.
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Grenada CIP Case Handling Grinds to a Halt in Q3; Average of 7 Applications Processed a Month
While investor appetite for Grenada’s CIP is rising quickly, the program’s authority appears uninterested in evaluating its suitors.
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Q1 Figures Indicate NZ Investor Visa Program in Decline – Rejections Hit 43%
Q1 of New Zealand’s 2019-2020 reporting year has ended and figures released this month show interest in investor visas is on a decidedly downward path.
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Investment in Cyprus CIP Passes EUR 1 Billion in 2019 With Months to Spare
Partly spurred on by a pending price-hike, investors have picked up some EUR 1.1 billion in (mostly) real estate assets so far this year.
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Preliminary Data Points to Record Year for Residence by Investment in Europe in 2019
In terms of revenue, 2019 will see EU programs raise at least EUR 5 billion – beating its own previous record by 43%.
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Up 80%: Approvals for Spain’s Residence by Investment Program Hit All-Time High in H1 2019
The record numbers make Spain’s golden visa Europe’s second most popular such program in H1 2019, surpassed only by Greece.
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The Relative IM Market Share of Residence, Citizenship, and Entrepreneur Programs
Investment migration now provides residency and citizenship to around 125,000 people a year. But which subcategory – CIPs, RIPs, or SUVs – absorb the most?
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82% of China’s Immigration Agencies Are Under Five Years Old – Deregulation Sets off Deluge in Openings
In Shanghai, 44% of immigration intermediaries have yet to celebrate their first anniversary and fully 91% have yet to mark their fifth.
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App. Backlog Nears 20,000 for Australia’s Business Innovation & Investment Visa
Close to 80,000 investor migrants and dependents have obtained Australian visas under the BIIP, but 18,682 applicants are “in the pipeline”.
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