The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
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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Following a record first six months of 2018, approvals slumped in the second half. But the program still raised nearly a billion euros last year.
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But Kiwi authorities have also left NZ$2.7 billion on the table due to their sky-high rejection rates.
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On an annualized basis, this equates to an 8% drop in main applicants, but a 35% increase in total visas, indicating prodigious family size growth.
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Some 1,000 applications remain unprocessed due to missing documentation. To tackle the backlog, the MRVA will no longer accept incomplete applications.
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May 2019 figures from Portugal’s Borders and Immigration Service (SEF) reveal a sharp decline in interest in the country’s golden
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The landlocked Mercosur member state’s $70,000 residence by investment program is more popular than you may think, especially within Latin-America.
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Momentous changes in fortune took place among golden visas last year; while one Asian investor visa saw approvals drop by 46%, a European one shot up 111%.
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Unless authorities return to processing at an acceptable rate soon, Ireland could be looking at a 72% year on year drop in program revenue this year.
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Not since the investment requirement was half what it is today has the UK Tier 1 Investor Visa seen more applications than during Q1 2019.
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After nothing but decline in the first three months of 2019, the investment volume trend turned upward in April. In the year’s first quarter, the Golden Visa program raised EUR 249 million.
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Malaysia’s MM2H residence program, which has approved more than 40,000 participants in its 16-year history, is back from suspension with tighter security, new requirements, and with a review of the financial requirements in the cards.
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Over the last ten years, the Kiwis’ high standards have led them to turn down investments worth over NZ$1.7 billion. But they’re still raking in NZ$27m a week.
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The number of companies and individuals licensed to submit citizenship by investment applications – among the ten CIPs that require
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Conservative estimates say there are more than 5,000 investment migration agencies in China. These are the biggest.
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“You carry that document around and you’re subject to their government. It says right there in the passport that it’s the property of such and such country. And, in a sense, so are you.”
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Malta saw revenues outpace expenditures in 2018. While the government was careful to point out that it would have logged a surplus even in the absence of its citizenship by investment program, the MIIP can take credit for three-quarters of the positive balance.
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Jordan has granted 21 citizenships in exchange for investors since 2018 – mostly to Syrian and Iraqi applicants – but the rejection rate remains remarkably high.
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