Stephane Tajick suggests the US’ $20 billion loan may pressure Milei to abandon the CBI program or inadvertently become its best defender.
QIIP may never be the belle of the ball again, but with a bit of makeup and dim lights, she can still find suitors, writes Stephane Tajick.
Investment migration can fill specific economic gaps. Keeping family businesses from dying with the owner is one way, writes Stephane Tajick.
Quebec’s Immigrant Investor Program recently saw its suspension extended. But the program still has a future, argues Stephane Tajick.
Stephane Tajick asks what the industry might have done to prevent EU antagonism, what we can expect next, and whether GVs have a future in Europe.
Stephane Tajick believes it’s time we start thinking about how to adapt to a world without citizenship by investment.
Stephane Tajick has spent the last year catering to the growing US market for investment migration. Here’s what he’s learned.
Indebted EU countries could stave off insolvency by selling citizenship. But tact and compromise are required to make that politically feasible, writes Stephane Tajick.
Stephane Tajick laments that Montenegro’s government never gave the country’s CIP a chance to prove its mettle before settling its fate.
As Canada and Quebec battle the COVID-19 pandemic with curfews and travel restrictions, the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) is getting ready for a showdown that will decide its fate.
The pandemic’s shifting of populations away from expensive megacities is an opportunity for investment migration, writes Stephane Tajick.
Plenty of governments want to design RCBI programs that help them grow their economies. Few understand what it takes, writes Stephane Tajick.
Investment migration firms are taking client fees on the presumption that their applications will be processed in the future. What if that doesn’t happen?
When governments find the economic benefits of investment migration programs fall short, they should ask themselves who designed them in the first place.
Applicants to golden visa programs around the world are made to wait years for approval. That puts an unnecessary damper on demand, writes Stephane Tajick.
Startup visas are too customized, risky, hands-on, and low-margin to catch on at a grand scale, argues Stephane Tajick.
Stephane Tajick chronicles the early development of citizenship by investment, from the Pacific to Northern Europe.
This is the first in a two-part series on now-defunct residence and citizenship by investment programs. This week, we look
As part of its plan to reduce overall immigration to the province, the government of Quebec is cutting the number
Recently, the EU Parliament published a draft report on financial crimes, tax evasion, and tax avoidance. This draft report “Concludes that