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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If Latvia’s golden visa performs as well in the second half of 2019 as it did in the first, application volume will grow by nearly 50% on the year.
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Not since March 2018 has the SEF approved more applications in a single month than it did in July, and never has it approved more Brazilians.
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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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Extremely conservative estimates would place the number of program participants at more than 100,000. The actual figure is likely in the 130-150,000 range.
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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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Investor migrants are voting with their feet and with their dollars. That they cast their ballots in favor of freedom is incontrovertible.
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The chance to market investment migration to more than a billion people is a twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The first of those has already passed us by.
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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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Program authorities are also making great strides in dealing with their extensive backlog of unprocessed applications.
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An analysis of the more than 600 firms registered in the Residence and Citizenship by Investment Company Directory shows that some 60% of companies are tiny.
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Our dynamic bar chart shows how the volume and demographic make-up of EB-5 visa grants have changed drastically over the last two decades.
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These ten programs brought in the most money to their respective countries last year. One program alone made up more than half the market.
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Should Q1 prove an indication of an overall trend rather than an anomaly, Grenada can expect to beat its all-time record from 2018 this year.
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In the absence of a substantial shift in the trend-line, 2019 will be the worst-performing year since scandal-prone 2015.
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In the last ten years, 74,128 individuals have arrived in the US through the EB-5 program, while 352,076 have come on an E2 visa.
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Eight of ten startups end up in the wealthier Northern regions, and fully 56% of founders launch their business within a two-hour drive from Milan.
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After accumulating a hefty backlog over the last two years, the Department of Justice have sped up case-handling considerably in the last two months.
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Thailand issued 498 visas to investors and their dependents during Q1, 2019. Rapidly growing Chinese demand is sustaining the program’s robust upward trend.
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The organization does not expect the upward trend in CBI-revenue to continue and, therefore, urges the Vanuatu government not to grow too accustomed to it.
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