The Truth About the UAE’s Golden Visa: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Saahil Menon points out that the program is no path to permanent settlement in the UAE, and questions if settlement there is even desirable.
Read moreSaahil Menon points out that the program is no path to permanent settlement in the UAE, and questions if settlement there is even desirable.
Read moreWild inflation? Yes. Hot money flows? Sure. Capricious politics? Absolutely. But economic fundamentals? As sound as they come, argues Brian Greco.
Read moreNon-sanctioned Russian and Belarusian investors are officially welcome to apply to Grenada’s citizenship by investment program again.
Read more“I’ve been receiving about a dozen inquiries a day, up from the one or two US-based inquiries I typically get daily,” says Lesperance.
Read moreWhile contours of a recovery from 2020’s drop in Chinese IM program participation are becoming apparent, the market remains in the doldrums.
Read more“The real backlog”, says Pedro Catão Pinheiro, “is still ahead of us. It will come with the wave of applications filed on June 15th.”
Read moreThe program’s applicant nationality profile is decidedly Western: Among the top 10 source countries are the US, Germany, France, and the UK.
Read moreItaly as a destination sells itself, argues Dario Montagnese. All RCBI advisors need to do is let investors know it also has a golden visa.
Read morePortugal’s ruling Socialist Party, which controls Parliament, has made its position clear: The golden visa program is not going anywhere.
Read more“[…] location fluidity is going to stop being a luxury for just the very few. It’s going to be an option for everyone.”
Read moreIt now remains to be seen whether the remaining non-EU Schengen countries – Norway, Lichtenstein, and Iceland – will follow suit.
Read moreThe association argues that giving citizenship a dollar-value “has made the concept of citizenship abstract and alienated from its essence.”
Read moreAfter six months of stagnation, the SEF has begun accepting new golden visa applications once more.
Read moreAmerican applicants and fund investments reach record highs while Chinese participation and per-applicant average investment hit record lows.
Read moreApplications, approvals, passport issuances, and investment all more than doubled and set all-time highs. US applicant approvals rose 900%.
Read moreThe visa-waiver suspension will last until at least February next year, at which point the EU will re-assess the country’s CBI programs.
Read moreAfter 16 months of attempting to engage a Kafkaesque bureaucracy on the golden visa crisis, the founders of PAIIR are ringing the alarm bells.
Read moreAll told, IMI has been able to confirm 472 approved Indian main applicants globally for 2021.
Read more“You have to incentivize them so heavily that the net amounts received by the governments would be reduced considerably,” said PM Browne.
Read more“There is not the slightest possible justification for the [golden visa] program not to work,” says the President of APPII.
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