The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
“It is a program that could have helped in economic recovery, with this pandemic. To the business community, it is deplorable,” said lawyer Maxime Lapointe.
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The share of Québec Immigrant Investor Program participants who settled in the province had averaged 8% – until last year when it suddenly jumped.
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The money-for-rights model of investment migration – while economically successful – is a hard sell, politically. Canada’s model offers a compromise.
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When governments find the economic benefits of investment migration programs fall short, they should ask themselves who designed them in the first place.
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18,800 main applicants fulfilled the obligations of the QIIP but still await their permanent residence permits, a factor partly motivating the suspension.
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While the announcement spoke only of a suspension, “it is not clear if the program will reopen, and under what conditions,” said one major service provider.
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This is the first in a two-part series on now-defunct residence and citizenship by investment programs. This week, we look
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As part of its plan to reduce overall immigration to the province, the government of Quebec is cutting the number
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In a response to the airing of an investigative report on the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) by Canadian state
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On the 20th of September, the whole investment migration industry in Canada was holding its breath before the airing of
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Whereas questioning the degree to which unskilled refugees – tens of thousands of which Canada welcomes annually – sufficiently contribute
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The Quebecois government’s official gazette this Wednesday contained details of the upcoming amendments to the Québec Immigrant Investor Program’s (QIIP)
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By Stephane Tajick Is there a form of discrimination in our targeting of wealthy Chinese looking people in Canada? Are
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By Kareem El-Assal, Senior Research Associate at the Conference Board of Canada Canada was once the world leader in attracting
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By Stephane Tajick Since the end of Canada’s Federal Immigrant Investor program a few years ago by the Conservative Party,
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During a town hall meeting last week, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau said his government would reconsider allowing visa-free access to
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Speaking at a town hall meeting in Toronto this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the audience that his
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Of the 15,237 individuals slated for deportation from Canada, 2,066 are Chinese nationals. While the number of persons repatriated from
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Canada will hand a major boost to the value of Bulgarian and Romanian citizenship on December 1st this year, when
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Figures obtained by South China Morning Post revealed that 1,210 Hong Kong natives obtained permanent residence status in Canada last
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