The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
As Saint Lucia’s first CBI-approved project breaks ground, the project’s developer promises delivery in 2-3 years. There’s reason to question that estimate.
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Seven countries that either have or are considering a citizenship by investment program will go to the polls in 2020. Here’s how it can affect the market.
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The Cypriot Foreign Minister has told local press he expects new developments this year with regards to a visa-waiver agreement with the United States.
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A French criminal court has forced France’s M6, under penalty of daily fines, to share the raw footage, which plainly reveals deceptive editing.
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Faced with rising minimum investment requirements among RCBI programs across the globe, China’s Investment Migration market will respond in three ways.
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Thailand’s Elite Residence Program again broke records in 2019, growing its member-base by 2,149 individuals, or 28% more than the 1,679 it added last year.
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Having already beaten all European records in 2018, there was little left for Greece to outperform in 2019 but its own achievements, which it did by 34%.
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The head of a large investment migration firm asks: “Which programs worldwide require investments in government bonds or similar portfolio investments?”
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“I would not be shocked if [in Lisbon and Porto], the minimum investment requirement went from EUR 500,000 to EUR 1m,” says the President of APEMIP.
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A former President of the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association thinks we have only seen the contours of the fallout from changes to the EB-5 program.
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The IMF recommends deeper regional cooperation on citizenship by investment as a means of keeping skepticism about such programs at bay.
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As CIP-demand slows, luxury developers are most likely to take the brunt of the impact while the overall market continues on a modest upward trajectory.
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The share of investors who pick options other than the conventional EUR 500,000 property purchase has more than tripled in the last three years.
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One firm’s director lent more than GBP 100 million to UK Tier 1 applicants on the condition they invest it in a company controlled by his wife.
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“This is another step in further professionalizing our industry and harmonizing standards globally,” says Bruno L’ecuyer in an email to IMI.
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Home to nearly half a million HNWIs with low mobility, India has more potential than, perhaps, any other investment migration market.
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Between Jan and Sep 2019, the USCIS terminated 75 regional centers and approved only six. 80% of terminations since ’08 have taken place in the last two years.
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Service providers must provide papers proving all their clients going back to 2013 kept their investments according to the requirements by February 15th.
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Transparency International has won a court case that will compel Portuguese authorities to share more data on the golden visa program.
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The recently released six-month report on the Antigua & Barbuda CIP shows applications in H1 2019 are down by 40% compared to H2 2018.
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