The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
The Association of Chinese Investors in Greece says their countrymen will spend €800 million to €1 billion on Greek golden visas in 2020. Is that realistic?
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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 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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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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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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As 2020 beckons, we review the year in investment migration with 12 graphs and their accompanying articles, telling the visual story of 2019.
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The numbers offer but grim reading, as all arrows point downward for the program’s key performance indicators.
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While rejection rates are rising, refusal rates vary markedly between different applicant types; investors, managers, essential employees, and dependents.
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Greece’s residence by investment program is raising €23 million a week. Already Europe’s most popular program by far, its application volumes keep growing.
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The milestone has only been reached by three other residence programs in history, but apps. hit a 17-month low in Nov and 2019 income is lowest since 2015.
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But Subcontinental Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi) are a faster-growing demographic segment of the client base, say heads of 40 global IM firms.
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Only 49 main applicants received Tier 1 Investor visas during the Q3 2019, a down from 124 in the preceding quarter.
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Cited by five times as many firms as the next CIU on the list, the Dominica CIU stood out for its efficiency in processing, likely thanks to automation.
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Executives disagreed on the proper price for Caribbean CIPs and the merits of unification, while most hoped for governments to tackle a glut of amateurs.
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The results from IMI’s 2019 Investment Migration Executive Survey are in.
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How much do the world’s investment migration programs bring in per immigrant, i.e., when counting the total number of passports/visas, including dependents?
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Saint Lucia’s CIP is growing, but not as fast as some of its neighbors, a state of affairs its head of CIU attributes to the market’s price sensitivity
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The program’s largest fund manager says that, thanks to non-SIV follow-up investments, total FDI arising from the program may be close to A$50 billion.
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Portugal’s golden visa program is just EUR 89 million away from passing the 5-billion-euro mark. The champagne-opening could take place as soon as next month.
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