As Chinese Warm Up to Thai Elite Visa, Program Is Set For Record Year
Thailand issued 498 visas to investors and their dependents during Q1, 2019. Rapidly growing Chinese demand is sustaining the program’s robust upward trend.
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Intel & Data
Vanuatu Has Reportedly Issued 4,000+ Passports Under CIP But IMF Estimates 72% Drop in 2019
The organization does not expect the upward trend in CBI-revenue to continue and, therefore, urges the Vanuatu government not to grow too accustomed to it.
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Spanish Golden Visa Approvals Drop 34% in Second Half of 2018, Chinese Interest Down Sharply
Following a record first six months of 2018, approvals slumped in the second half. But the program still raised nearly a billion euros last year.
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The First CIP Due Diligence Index Ranks Malta IIP 1st, Jordan CIP Last
Measuring CIP due diligence on 38 criteria divided into five pillars, the authors hope the framework will become a standard for the industry.
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Chinese Have Spent NZ$3.8 Billion on New Zealand Investor Visas Over Last Decade
But Kiwi authorities have also left NZ$2.7 billion on the table due to their sky-high rejection rates.
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645 Investors and 2,042 Family Members Received Greek Golden Visas in First Half of 2019
On an annualized basis, this equates to an 8% drop in main applicants, but a 35% increase in total visas, indicating prodigious family size growth.
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Malta’s Golden Visa Has Received 1,600 Applications, But Backlog is Growing Due to Agents’ Sloppy Filing
Some 1,000 applications remain unprocessed due to missing documentation. To tackle the backlog, the MRVA will no longer accept incomplete applications.
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Portugal Golden Visa Investment Tumbles 32% on Year in May
May 2019 figures from Portugal’s Borders and Immigration Service (SEF) reveal a sharp decline in interest in the country’s golden visa program compared to May last year. Overall, both investment and visa approvals are down some 32%. Compared to April, interest declined only slightly in May; the SEF approved 82 applications (92 in April) and
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With Russia Visa-Waiver Deal, Antigua Passport Moves From 10th to 5th in Landmass-Access Ranking
Antigua & Barbuda’s deal with Russia catapults its passport’s overall landmass-access score from 25% of the world to 37%.
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Paraguay Issued 302 Investor Visas in 2018, 42% to Brazilians
The landlocked Mercosur member state’s $70,000 residence by investment program is more popular than you may think, especially within Latin-America.
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The 10 Most Popular Golden Visas in The World Last Year, According to Statistics
Momentous changes in fortune took place among golden visas last year; while one Asian investor visa saw approvals drop by 46%, a European one shot up 111%.
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452 Applications, 54 Approvals: Irish Investor Program Grappling With Processing Times
Unless authorities return to processing at an acceptable rate soon, Ireland could be looking at a 72% year on year drop in program revenue this year.
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New Record for UK Tier 1 Investment in Q1 as Suspension-Scare Boosts Applications by 42%
Not since the investment requirement was half what it is today has the UK Tier 1 Investor Visa seen more applications than during Q1 2019.
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Moldova’s Citizenship Program Has Received 23 Applications so Far, State News Agency Reports
Yesterday, IMI reported that Moldova has already granted its first citizenship by investment. Today, Iulia Petuhov, Deputy Director of the Public Services Agency, the CIP’s processing body, informed local press that prospective investor citizens had submitted 23 applications so far. As expected, today’s press statement contained no identifying details about the so-far only person to
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Portugal’s Golden Visa on Track to Raise a Record Billion Euros in 2019, Show Q1 Figures
After nothing but decline in the first three months of 2019, the investment volume trend turned upward in April. In the year’s first quarter, the Golden Visa program raised EUR 249 million.
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Malaysia M2H Residence Program is Back – Financial Requirements to be Reviewed
Malaysia’s MM2H residence program, which has approved more than 40,000 participants in its 16-year history, is back from suspension with tighter security, new requirements, and with a review of the financial requirements in the cards.
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New Zealand’s Investor Visa Raises NZ$27 Million a Week, Rejects 1 in 3 Applicants
Over the last ten years, the Kiwis’ high standards have led them to turn down investments worth over NZ$1.7 billion. But they’re still raking in NZ$27m a week.
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Antigua CIP, EB-5 Most Offered Programs Among Investment Migration Firms, Analysis Shows
While half of the firms in our database keep the Antigua & Barbuda CIP on their shelf, only 1% offer that of Jordan. See our statistical analysis to understand which programs are the most commonly offered among the world’s investment migration companies.
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Approved CIP Agents Nears 1,000 Globally, But One Program Just Disqualified 38% of Its Licensees
The number of companies and individuals licensed to submit citizenship by investment applications – among the ten CIPs that require such licenses – now stands at 922 worldwide. While, in the last ten weeks alone, 30 new agents obtained approvals, Vanuatu’s DSP recently culled 14 out of 37 licensees. While the number of accredited agents
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China’s 11 Largest Investment Migration Agencies in 2019
Conservative estimates say there are more than 5,000 investment migration agencies in China. These are the biggest.
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