Brookes: The Ticking Time Bomb of CBI Real Estate – Investors Have No Clear Exit Strategy
Hundreds of investors unable to sell on their CBI real estate shares is a PR nightmare waiting to happen, writes Gareth Brookes.
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Opinion
Paul Girodo: Golden Visas May Be On Their Way Out – Here’s What Will Replace Them
By this time next year, EU golden visa programs will have changed so much that they will have effectively ended. But exciting new programs are coming online to replace them, writes Paul Girodo.
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Laszlo Kiss: Portuguese Foreign Minister’s Statement Does Not Bode Well For Golden Visa Route to Citizenship
If it turns out Portugal Golden Visa investors who spent 35 days in the country end up NOT qualifying for citizenship, the ramifications for the global IM market will be momentous, writes Laszlo Kiss.
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Carlyle Rogers: 3 Vital Steps to Ensuring Caribbean CIP Sustainability
Carlyle Rogers argues that, beyond due diligence cooperation, the Caribbean CIPs should adopt a price floor immediately, limit new programs, and coordinate a media pushback against CBI-lies.
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Adapt or Perish: How Investment Migration Can Survive the European Parliament’s Antagonism
The European Parliament has made its opposition to investment migration clear. This leaves the industry facing some stark choices, writes Dr. Hussain Farooq.
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Are Prime Ministerial Roadshows to Promote Citizenship by Investment Programs Appropriate?
Carlyle Rogers asks whether it may be time to end the practice of Caribbean political leaders going on “beauty parades” to promote their CIPs.
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Carlyle Rogers: RCBI-Industry Finds Itself in Crosshairs as OECD Continues War on Tax Competition
Contrary to protestations made by some, the OECD does not care about money laundering, due diligence weaknesses, terrorist financing, and fraud concerns regarding RCBI programs, writes Carlyle Rogers.
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Basic Dos and Don’ts for Entering the Indian Investment Migration Market – By Prashant Ajmera
India is one of the few emerging economic powerhouses whose HNWIs have yet to appreciate the benefits of residency and citizenship by investment (RCBI). In this article, Indian immigration attorney Prashant Ajmera outlines some of the major do’s and don’ts of Indian investment migration market success.
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Opinion: Citizenship by Investment’s Role in Finally Emancipating Former Colonies
Opinion of the editor Citizenship by investment has granted small, developing countries in the Caribbean and Pacific the means to
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Hanafin: 5 Common Criticisms of Investment Migration, Dissected
Think of the investment migration market as one with 7 billion clients and about 200 competitors.
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NBLO: Why Bulgaria Should Retain its Investor Migration Program
This post was contributed by the Ivan Petrov of the New Balkans Law Office. Background On 22.01.2019 and 23.01.2019, the
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Kochenov: EU Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence – When the Commission Misleads
Contributed by Dr. Dimitry Kochenov Today, on 23 January 2019 the Commission released its ‘Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence
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Opinion: Why Portugal, Objectively Speaking, Has the Best Golden Visa in the World
Kianoush MahmoudiDirector and Head of Business Development at Cankash Company Europe has no shortage of citizenship and residence by
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Tajick: The RCBI-Industry’s Role in Shaping the New Global Economy
Researcher Stephane Tajick explores the near-to-medium term future of the RCBI-market, and tries to predict the industry’s role in the
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Burke Files: OECD-Countries Themselves are the Main Beneficiaries of RCBI-Programs
by L. Burke FilesDue Diligence Expert The OECD recently “blacklisted” 21 jurisdictions on the pretext that their CBI/RBI programs
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Henderson: RCBI-Advisors Lose Clients By Not Really Listening to Them
When I renounced US citizenship last year, after years of debating the idea, the reaction from my friends and colleagues
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33 Countries That Could Open a Citizenship by Investment Program
Over the last seven years alone, the number of formal citizenship by investment programs (CIPs) has grown from two to twelve,
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What Happens in Year 5? Chinese Applicants to Portugal’s Golden Visa Are Watching and Waiting
This article was contributed by Daniel Twomey, Head of Business Development at La Vida Europe Ltd. Since its inception in
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Chetcuti: The 5 Pillars of a Reputable Citizenship by Investment Program
This article was contributed by Dr Jean-Philippe Chetcuti, Managing Partner at Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates. Designed to attract foreign investment and fueling
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Bayat: CIPs’ Blanket Bans on Iranians are Draconian and Bad for Business
This article was contributed by Sam Bayat, head of Bayat Legal Services. Saint Lucia will no longer accept citizenship by
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