10 on the Weekend – Sam Bayat: “I Know Too Many Secrets”
Sam Bayat likes camping in the desert with his kids, regrets not getting into the government advisory business, and thinks 2020 will be harsh for everyone.
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.
. | Program | Type |
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Antigua & Barbuda CIP | Citizenship by Investment | |
Dominica CIP | Citizenship by Investment | |
Grenada CIP | Citizenship by Investment | |
Saint Kitts & Nevis CIP | Citizenship by Investment | |
Saint Lucia CIP | Citizenship by Investment | |
Turkey CIP | Citizenship by Investment | |
Malta MEIN | Citizenship by Investment | |
Australia BIIP Investor Streams | Residence by Investment | |
Cyprus Golden Visa | Residence by Investment | |
Greece Golden Visa | Residence by Investment | |
Malta Permanent Residence Program | Residence by Investment | |
Canada Startup Visa | Active Investor Visa | |
Vanuatu DSP/REO/VCP | Citizenship by Investment | |
. | Type |
Sam Bayat likes camping in the desert with his kids, regrets not getting into the government advisory business, and thinks 2020 will be harsh for everyone.
While prominent industry commentators laud the introduction of a skin-in-the-game requirement, some Grenadian developers say the government’s definition of “skin”
Hanafin postulated that “Sam is being told to keep quiet because people are winning on both sides, so Sam is ruffling too many feathers, perhaps.”
“Of course, I’m disappointed and sad that this issue has come to the public attention,” said Bayat during an interview with IMI at the Investment Immigration Summit in Dubai this weekend.
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