Canada: Forget the Startup Visa – Focus on Regional Pilots
From real estate to bonds and shares, global investors are spoilt for choice when it comes to investing in residencies. Except in Canada.
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Québec Extends Suspension of Immigrant Investor Program to 2023
The “QIIP is dead in the water,” lamented Sam Bayat on learning that Quebec will extend its program moratorium for a third time in 16 months.
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Pace of Industry Change is Speeding Up: 10 on the Weekend – Stephane Tajick
“A typical millennial”, Stephane Tajick says there is no book on his nightstand, only his phone, and that the falling supply of good RCBI programs keeps him up.
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Podcast: Pandemic’s Lessons for IM Programs and the Impact of a North Macedonian CIP
Crunch time for EB-5, the North Macedonian surprise, why Canada makes immigration so hard, business as usual in the Caribbean, and much more.
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Quebec IIP’s Future Hangs in the Balance as Govt. to Decide its Fate in March
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.
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Québec IIP Suspension Extended Until April 2021; IIAC Calls for Re-Launch of Federal Program
“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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91% of Québec Immigrant Investors Settle in Other Provinces – But That’s Changing Quickly
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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What the EU Needs to Learn From Canada’s Targeted Investment Migration Model
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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Who’s to Blame When Investment Migration Programs Have Little Economic Impact?
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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Québec IIP’s 20,000-Application Backlog Precipitated Suspension
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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Québec Immigrant Investor Program Suspended Pending Review
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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Tajick: Remembering the Dead Part 1 – Residence by Investment Programs of Yore
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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Quebec to Cut QIIP Selection by Up to 65% in 2019, CSQ Wait-Time to Double
As part of its plan to reduce overall immigration to the province, the government of Quebec is cutting the number
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IMC’s L’ecuyer Urges Adherence to Ethical Code Following QIIP-Investigation
In a response to the airing of an investigative report on the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) by Canadian state
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Tajick: Public Broadcaster Investigation Rocks Québec IIP
On the 20th of September, the whole investment migration industry in Canada was holding its breath before the airing of
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Tajick: 3 Common Myths Canadian Media Uses to Demonize Investor Immigrants
Whereas questioning the degree to which unskilled refugees – tens of thousands of which Canada welcomes annually – sufficiently contribute
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Big Changes Coming to Québec Investor Program – Min. Investment Now C$ 1.2M, Net Asset Requirement Raised
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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Canadian Immigrant Investor Myth #2: The Chinese Are Driving Up Property Prices
By Stephane Tajick Is there a form of discrimination in our targeting of wealthy Chinese looking people in Canada? Are
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Analysis: Does Investor Immigration Have a Future in Canada?
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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Canadian Immigrant Investor Myth #1: They Pay Less Tax Than Refugees
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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