The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
The Residence and Citizenship by Investment Company Directory contains 732 firms that offer investment migration services. 102 of these have registered offices in China. These include all of China’s 50 largest RCBI-firms and, while there are thousands of small immigration outfits in China, we believe the sample size is large enough to be representative. We
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Burning down a citizenship by investment program to become king of the ashes is not credible nor effective, writes Carlyle Rogers.
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Confirming the prediction from last year, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has confirmed in his budget address that revenue from the country’s citizenship by investment program will represent 25% of GDP and some 51% of government revenue in the fiscal year 2019-20, WIC News reports. The statement highlights the criticality of the program in sustaining
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Both sides of the aisle fling scathing allegations as the citizenship by investment program takes center stage in the political debate ahead of possible elections.
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ETIAS, currently under development and slated to debut in 2021, will have implications for the investment migration market. Here’s what you need to know.
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Questions this week: Can you finance your investment in a CIP or Golden Visa? How many people apply to CIPs globally each year?
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“Malta takes these matters very seriously,” the head of Malta’s IIP Agency told IMI.
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Sun Xiang obtained citizenship of Saint Kitts by investment in 2011. A year later, he became a congressman in China. This week, the government found out.
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Henley & Partners said it looked forward to working with the Moldovan government to “fully re-evaluate and relaunch the citizenship by investment program”.
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While Malta publishes all the names of new citizens as is required by law, Cyprus prohibits such publication. Who is right?
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As an immigration lawyer, I feel more in control of the outcome – and that the program is much more predictable – if I am told everything.”
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In the first four months of 2019, revenue from Vanuatu’s two citizenship by investment programs nearly equaled the amount raised in all of 2017.
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Upon expiry of the moratorium, the government will have the right to extend it for another two months.
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In a recent presentation, I advanced the view that in the decades ahead, citizenship will be the key to one’s survival if conflict increases, especially at a time when western countries are closing their borders to people, especially the poor, and in the age of populism, Trump, Brexit, and increasing American and European nationalism. I publicly stated that
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32 major events remain in the year. You can’t catch them all, so here’s how to choose between them.
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As Caribbean banks and governments struggle to receive CIP-funds, Macfarlane writes that he is amazed they don’t implement simple workarounds.
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“It is likely but not self-evident that after the moratorium, Law no. 1 will be withdrawn,” says Henley & Partners.
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In a new segment, we answer questions from readers and encourage you to send in some of your own.
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The number of accredited agents for citizenship by investment programs has grown by 25 since February, an average of 4.2 new agents per month. Between February and May, a dozen new companies joined the fray; by today, another 13 have received accreditation. With 578 accredited agents (62% of the total), Cyprus has more approved agents
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Overall, investors from Iran and Iraq were the top two nationalities for citizenship with 253 and 143 approved applications, respectively.
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