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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Greek property just got a whole lot cheaper. The new government has declared it will not collect VAT on real estate investments for the next three years.
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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 a recent presentation, I advanced the view that in the decades ahead, citizenship will be the key to one’s survival if conflict increases, especially at a time when western countries are closing their borders to people, especially the poor, and in the age of populism, Trump, Brexit, and increasing American and European nationalism. I publicly stated that
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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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“We’re looking for someone who has a lifestyle in which they don’t usually spend more than 90 days in any particular jurisdiction,” says Philip Kisob.
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Channel 4 and the Times say they have exposed a “scandal”, but the industry has itself repeatedly urged the Home Office to update its procedure.
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Program authorities are also making great strides in dealing with their extensive backlog of unprocessed applications.
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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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Many low tax jurisdictions also offer CIP and residency programs, and the overlap between the two previously distinct industries is now nearly complete.
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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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Samuel thanked the Sharjah Directorate of Residency for “their initiative to contact him and introduce him to the golden visa system.”
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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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Greece has put plans for the EUR 400,000 share, bond, and deposit options on ice as it braces for a snap election on July 7th.
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Rules requiring golden visa investors submit files in the municipality where they bought the property had seen Athens appointments fully booked until 2021.
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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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From black gold to golden visas: Saudi Arabia wants to cut reliance on oil and capitalize on its 12 million foreigners by offering them permanent residency.
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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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