Digital Nomad Visas: Why Your RCBI Firm Should Sell Them, Despite the Lower Margins
The Digital Nomad Visa trend is booming but RCBI firms are staying away for a perceived lack of margin. That’s a mistake, argues Saahil Menon.
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Opinion
Lesperance: 6 Predictions About the Investment Migration Market in 2023
David Lesperance goes on the record with six falsifiable predictions for events he expects in the investment migration market this year.
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The Eastern Bloc’s Disillusionment with Brussels Could Breathe New Life Into Defunct CBI Programs
As candidate countries come to terms with the improbability of accession, they’ll be less likely to toe the EU line, argues Saahil Menon.
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Caribbean CBI Due Diligence: You Can Take it to The Bank
Thomas Anthony, former head of several Caribbean CIUs, outlines the delicate and crucial role the region’s banks play in CBI due diligence.
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Georgia: The Residence by Investment Market’s Best Kept Secret
Georgia could emerge as the biggest beneficiary of the new multipolarity taking hold across investment migration, argues Saahil Menon.
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Iran: Investment Migration’s Sleeping Giant
St. Lucia’s recent decision to overturn its blanket ban on Iranian applicants could prompt others to follow suit, writes Saahil Menon.
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Strong-Arming Caribbean CIPs to Exclude Russians is Absurd, Unjust, and Unworthy
Caribbean CIPs are forced to fall in line with the demands of the bigger countries or face sanctions themselves, writes Nuri Katz.
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The Crypto Investor’s Five-Step Roadmap to a Low-Tax, High Quality Life in a New Jurisdiction
David Lesperance outlines the five carefully planned steps crypto investors must take to successfully upgrade to a better tax jurisdiction.
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The Truth About the UAE’s Golden Visa: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Saahil Menon points out that the program is no path to permanent settlement in the UAE, and questions if settlement there is even desirable.
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Can’t Help But Thrive in the Long Run: The Misunderstood Economic Prospect of Turkey
Wild inflation? Yes. Hot money flows? Sure. Capricious politics? Absolutely. But economic fundamentals? As sound as they come, argues Brian Greco.
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Why Don’t More Investment Migration Companies Promote Italy’s “Dolce Visa”?
Italy as a destination sells itself, argues Dario Montagnese. All RCBI advisors need to do is let investors know it also has a golden visa.
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Greco: Citizenship by Investment – The True Win-Win-Win of Globalization
Citizenship by investment, argues Brian Greco, is an unequivocal good for governments, locals, agents, and investors. So, why is it vilified?
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6 Global Economic Effects of The War in Ukraine And What They Mean for Investment Migration
Dr. Andrés Solimano, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, identifies six global effects of the war and the impact they could have on IM.
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If the CBI Industry Wants to Survive, it Needs to Muster a Concerted Effort – Immediately
Nuri Katz says recent weeks’ events show that “unless something changes drastically, we are closer to the end of the CBI industry than to the beginning of it.”
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St-Hilaire: Vanuatu Was Only the Beginning – Brussels Is on a Crusade Against Global Mobility
By attacking CIPs in small, defenseless countries with no allies, EU politicians rack up PR points at zero cost, writes Martin St-Hilaire.
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Are We Witnessing the Extinction of Citizenship by Investment?
Stephane Tajick believes it’s time we start thinking about how to adapt to a world without citizenship by investment.
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Anti-Fragility, Ukraine–Russia Conflict, and Investment Migration: 3 Considerations
The outbreak of war in Ukraine today strikes at the heart of why this industry exists in the first place, writes Brian Greco.
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Greco: What’s So Great About The Schengen Area?
Brian Greco questions the conventional industry doctrine that sees Schengen-access as the holy grail of RCBI-program selling points.
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How Losing Schengen-Access Would Affect Vanuatu Citizenship by Investment
Philippe May and Martin St-Hilaire ask: Would it be the end of CBI in Vanuatu? Would a price cut be in order? Where would demand come from?
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4 Ways in Which Brussels Is Unfairly Harming Vanuatu’s Citizenship by Investment Program
Martin St-Hilaire points to red herrings, straw man arguments, and other deliberate fallacies the European Commission uses against Vanuatu.
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