Dubai Still Top Hub for RCBI Companies; 3 Firms Present in 20+ Markets; Istanbul is Rising Star
See which RCBI firms are expanding and contracting their global office footprints, as well as which countries they are entering and leaving.
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SCOTUS Abortion Decision Drives Gush of US-Based Investment Migration Inquiries
“I’ve been receiving about a dozen inquiries a day, up from the one or two US-based inquiries I typically get daily,” says Lesperance.
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Portugal’s Golden Visa Crisis: Civil Suit Against State Only Option if Stonewalling Continues, Say PAIIR-Founders
After 16 months of attempting to engage a Kafkaesque bureaucracy on the golden visa crisis, the founders of PAIIR are ringing the alarm bells.
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7 Known Changes Coming to the Global Investment Migration Market in 2022
2022 no doubt holds a long list of surprises in store for the investment migration market. Here are seven changes we already know are coming.
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Golden Visa Programs Face an Existential Threat (And It’s Not Brussels)
Andre Bothma argues that independent means visas – which require physical presence but not investment – are eating golden visas’ lunch.
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Dominica Gets Visa-Free Travel to China, Salvadorian President Confirms $100k “Volcano Bond” PR-Program
Dominica seals visa-free deal with China. El Salvador will offer US$100,000 golden visa with path to citizenship by volcano-bond investment.
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Where Are All the Chinese Applicants? The 3 Factors Killing the Mainland IM Market
Until recently the world’s undisputedly largest source of investor migrants, China’s IM market has become a shadow of its former self. Why?
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The Great Reconfiguration of the Investment Migration Market After COVID-19
Richard Moir and Kristin Surak consider how the pandemic has transformed investor migrants’ preferences.
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First Episode of IMI’s New Podcast, The Mobility Standard, Out Now
IMI finally has its own podcast: The Mobility Standard. Listen to Episode 1 today: The Rise of Western Investor Migrants.
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More Citizenship-Based Tax Would “Set Off a Bonanza” for Investment Migration
The heads of Harvey Law Group and CS Global outline what effects they expect the pandemic to have on the investment migration market in 2021 and beyond.
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Only Chinese and Brazilians Got More Portuguese Golden Visas Than Americans in 2020
“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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“Citizenship-Based Tax is Coming to Big Economies” – 10 on the Weekend: Andrés Gutierrez
Argentinean native Andrés Gutierrez says that while his friends in LatAm are hoping to relocate to the US, Americans are hoping to get out.
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Investment Migration Has a Crucial Role to Play in the Post-Pandemic Urban Exodus
The pandemic’s shifting of populations away from expensive megacities is an opportunity for investment migration, writes Stephane Tajick.
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Health Passports Are Coming – What Does That Mean for Investment Migration?
“Health passports may be a proto-version of global citizenship from the ground-up, attached to bodies not borders,” writes Michael Krakat.
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RCBI-Firms Go All-in on Nigeria as Applications From The Country Triple in 3 Years
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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Investment Migration’s Next Frontier Market: First-World Millionaires?
3 in 4 millionaires live in the “West” and display little interest in alternative residency or citizenship. What if that changed?
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Global CIP Accreditations Pass 1,000 For The First Time, Vanuatu’s Number Suddenly Triples
The Vanuatu Development Support program stood out by nearly tripling its number of designated agents during the period, from 30 to 87.
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“HNWIs Are Very, Very Nervous About Risk of Social Unrest”: Asaria on Investment Migration After COVID
Mohammed Asaria says UHNWIs, after the pandemic, are far more willing to physically move their business, capital, and families.
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China’s Millennials: What Does the World’s Largest Investor Migrant Group Want? Part 2
In this second installment, Luc Lu illustrates why China’s millennials are hyper-vigilant about health and skeptical about Chinese education.
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