Sam Bayat is a Quebec licensed attorney with background in international law and is specialized in corporate migration. He has over twenty years experience in business immigration and citizenship consultancy.
He was the former president and vice president of Canadian Bar, International Section in Quebec. He had lectured in the International law at the Concordia University in Montreal. He is the senior resident lawyer of the law firm, Bayat Legal Services (BLS) in Dubai.
As the pace of immigration for Canada out of the Middle East stepped up, Sam Bayat set up in 1993 a small law practice in Dubai. Today Bayat Legal Services is an international law firm, working with a network of law firms, legal professionals, and trade consultants, around the world.
The group has specialists working on sanction, corporate/commercial, investment/banking, and arbitration laws. But the group’s main focus continues to be on business migration, residency and economic citizenship laws.
In the last four years, at least 13 countries have planned CIPs without actually opening them yet. Now, several are getting close to opening.
The global number of CBI-accredited agents is slowly recovering since the end of Cyprus’ CIP. Dominica adds to its agent blacklist.
Investment migration people in the news this week.
“I could name five or six companies, just offhand, that should be blacklisted for gross misbehavior,” says one veteran CBI advisor.
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