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.
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Can’t Help But Thrive in the Long Run: The Misunderstood Economic Prospect of Turkey
Wild inflation? Yes. Hot money flows? Sure. Capricious politics? Absolutely. But economic fundamentals? As sound as they come, argues Brian Greco.
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Grenada CIP Head Confirms: Non-Sanctioned Russians Welcome to Apply Again, on Case-by-Case Basis
Non-sanctioned Russian and Belarusian investors are officially welcome to apply to Grenada’s citizenship by investment program again.
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SCOTUS Abortion Decision Drives Gush of US-Based Investment Migration Inquiries
“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.
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Chinese Investor Migrant Data 2021: Application Volume Still Far Below 2019 Levels
While contours of a recovery from 2020’s drop in Chinese IM program participation are becoming apparent, the market remains in the doldrums.
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SEF Resumes Biometrics Appointment Bookings for Golden Visa Applicants (Except for Renewals)
“The real backlog”, says Pedro Catão Pinheiro, “is still ahead of us. It will come with the wave of applications filed on June 15th.”
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South Korea Investor Visa Approvals Hit 16-Year High in 2021: Applications from India up 75%
The program’s applicant nationality profile is decidedly Western: Among the top 10 source countries are the US, Germany, France, and the UK.
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Why Don’t More Investment Migration Companies Promote Italy’s “Dolce Visa”?
Italy as a destination sells itself, argues Dario Montagnese. All RCBI advisors need to do is let investors know it also has a golden visa.
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Portuguese Parliament Rejects Leftist Parties’ Motions to End Golden Visa
Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party, which controls Parliament, has made its position clear: The golden visa program is not going anywhere.
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“Location Fluidity is Going to Stop Being a Luxury” – Investment Migration People in the News This Week
“[…] location fluidity is going to stop being a luxury for just the very few. It’s going to be an option for everyone.”
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Switzerland Follows EU to Suspend Visa-Free Entry for Vanuatu Passport Holders
It now remains to be seen whether the remaining non-EU Schengen countries – Norway, Lichtenstein, and Iceland – will follow suit.
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Turkish Bar Association Calls for Abolition of CIP, Files Case in Supreme Court
The association argues that giving citizenship a dollar-value “has made the concept of citizenship abstract and alienated from its essence.”
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Breaking: SEF Resumes Acceptance of New Portugal Golden Visa Applications
After six months of stagnation, the SEF has begun accepting new golden visa applications once more.
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100 Investors Have Chosen Portugal’s Golden Visa Fund Option so Far in 2022, China Volume at Record Low
American applicants and fund investments reach record highs while Chinese participation and per-applicant average investment hit record lows.
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FY2021 Was Multi-Record Year for Saint Lucia CIP: Real Estate Biggest Earner, US Applicants Up 10x
Applications, approvals, passport issuances, and investment all more than doubled and set all-time highs. US applicant approvals rose 900%.
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EU Tells Vanuatu to Get its CBI House in Order by February 2023 or See Visa-Waiver Suspension Extended
The visa-waiver suspension will last until at least February next year, at which point the EU will re-assess the country’s CBI programs.
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Portugal’s Golden Visa Crisis: Civil Suit Against State Only Option if Stonewalling Continues, Say PAIIR-Founders
After 16 months of attempting to engage a Kafkaesque bureaucracy on the golden visa crisis, the founders of PAIIR are ringing the alarm bells.
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Indian Investor Migrant Data 2015-2021: UK and South Korea Programs Stand Out in 2021
All told, IMI has been able to confirm 472 approved Indian main applicants globally for 2021.
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Antigua PM: Some CBI Developer Business Models “Usurious”, “Vulgar” in Structure
“You have to incentivize them so heavily that the net amounts received by the governments would be reduced considerably,” said PM Browne.
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SEF Golden Visa Stoppage “Is a Real Scandal, a Shame” – IM People in The News This Week
“There is not the slightest possible justification for the [golden visa] program not to work,” says the President of APPII.
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