A comprehensive report from the EU’s anti-money laundering watchdog gives cause for both optimism and concern. The IMC largely echoes the sentiment.
The money-for-rights model of investment migration – while economically successful – is a hard sell, politically. Canada’s model offers a compromise.
“This is another step in further professionalizing our industry and harmonizing standards globally,” says Bruno L’ecuyer in an email to IMI.
The IMC expresses chagrin at being excluded from consultations on a report it says was “hijacked by ill-informed, unaccountable third party organizations.”
The IMC hopes the promulgation of best practices through its course will serve to reduce cases of malpractice and scandals in the future.
David Chen, Founder of Visas Consulting, explains why he thinks more Chinese firms should join the IMC to protect Europe’s investment migration market.
The IMC’s chief executive says “there is a very big misunderstanding of what this industry is all about” but thinks the reshuffling of the European Parliament is a unique chance to set the record straight.
Addressing industry stakeholders yesterday, Bruno L’ecuyer stressed the need for coordinated action vis-a-vis European institutions, highlighted the IMC’s new education program, and urged politicians to avoid uninformed decision-making.
Attendees expressed optimism following the European Commission’s stakeholder meeting on investment migration in Brussels today
The European Parliament today voted to adopt the TAX3 Committee’s February report calling for a “phasing out” of RCBI in Europe. The IMC has reacted with disappointment, calling instead on MEPs to support its work in raising industry standards.
The IMC confirms that Portuguese Socialist MEP, Ana Gomes – the European Parliament’s most fervent opponent of investment migration – will attend their annual conference in Geneva this June.
The European Parliament is about to vote on a report that urges the “phasing out” of investment migration programs. Such a decision would have severe adverse effects on Europe’s peripheral economies, says the IMC, which urges MEPs not to support the calls for the industry’s discontinuation.
Brussels is answering the IMC’s calls. The association says it has held a series of meetings with European officials, and taken part in a European Parliament debate.
The Investment Migration Council (IMC) has announced, in a letter its members, that it will be its IMC Education &
Responding to the European Commission’s report on residence and citizenship programs in Europe, the Investment Migration Council says it’s time
Following yesterday’s suspension of the UK Tier 1 Investor Visa – though not the Entrepreneur category – industry participants with
In a draft report published last week, the European Parliament’s Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion, and Tax Avoidance Committee called for the
During an interview with IMI at the Investment Immigration Summit in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, Bruno L’ecuyer, CEO
In a public response to the OECD’s “blacklisting” of jurisdictions with residence and citizenship by investment programs for alleged circumvention
In a response to the European Parliament’s report on the residence and citizenship by investment industry, the Investment Migration Council