The Italian Investor Visa (IIV) has been around for almost three years without gaining any meaningful traction. Why?
2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire conceptualized citizenship; flexible, obtainable via contributions, and not necessarily linked to residence.
While rejection rates are rising, refusal rates vary markedly between different applicant types; investors, managers, essential employees, and dependents.
No EU, no Schengen, and a relatively high price tag. Kenya hopes a CIP will help repay its debts. The notion is far-fetched, but not altogether ludicrous.
Investment financing has the potential to catapult investment migration from UHNWI luxury product status to the much greater mass affluent market.
These four countries have the necessary economic, demographic, and political ingredients to open Europe’s next citizenship by investment program, writes Ahmad Abbas.
Portugal’s recent focus on private equity investment funds for Golden Visas reveal investor migrants are now sensitive to sound tax and exit strategies.