The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
While Hongkongers are more likely than any other nationality to participate in RCBI programs, the Vietnamese are unrivaled when differences in wealth are taken into account.
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The world’s largest collection of investment migration statistics, radically expanded and improved. Welcome to the new IMI Data Center.
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Though costs associated with renegotiations drove a deficit internally in the CIU, Saint Lucia’s CIP has so far raised near US$50m in contributions.
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The new rules mean a single applicant, choosing to rent on Gozo, could obtain a residence permit in Malta for a non-refundable EUR 150,000.
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Laboring under a pandemic, Greek bureaucrats might have been excused were it not for the starkly contrasting performance of Portuguese peers.
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“For some, it is dissatisfaction with Trump; for others, it’s apprehensions about Biden,” says Lisbon-based lawyer Patricia Valadas Coriel.
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China’s investment migration market is in flux for the first time in a generation, presenting a unique incursion opportunity for foreign firms.
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This may offer some suggestion as to how a passport that offers 51 visa-free destinations can command average investment of nearly US$7m.
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Though things looked grim for Spain’s golden visa this summer, recently released figures show approvals are up 19% in the last six months. A uniquely Spanish rule intended to accelerate bureaucratic processes may be to thank for that.
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Characterized by rapid growth, strong demand, and only modest RCBI-firm competition, Pakistan’s investment migration market warrants consideration.
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Americans have been among the top-five applicant nationalities in each monthly report during the second half of 2020.
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While the program is as popular as ever, Australia has struggled to process applications during the pandemic.
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Farzin Yazdi attributes the late summer and early fall investment boom to a release of pent-up demand stemming from the lockdown-months.
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Judging by the number of top-flight RCBI firms that have entered the market over the last two years, Nigeria is Africa’s “next big thing”.
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Presuming the COVID flare-up is the primary cause of the slowdown, golden visa investment volumes are unlikely to recover before 2021.
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The most popular option for the three years in aggregate, at 2,144 files, was the social housing option operated by Montreal Management.
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More than NZ$ 1bn of investor visa funds, half of it from the US, are knocking on New Zealand’s door, which, due to COVID, remains closed.
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In a historic release prepared exclusively for IMI, Vanuatu shares, for the first time, statistics on all its past and present CBI programs.
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On a dollar-basis, revenues from the real estate option already outpace those from NTF contributions; EC$55 million versus EC$46m in 2020.
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So far, 2020 has been a statistically unremarkable year for Portugal’s golden visa; no mean feat considering this year’s global context.
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