The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
“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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David Chen, Founder of Visas Consulting, explains why he thinks more Chinese firms should join the IMC to protect Europe’s investment migration market.
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Confusion regarding the recent UK Tier 1 reforms had led to a surge in applications but practical consequences for investors were limited, said Yazdi.
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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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Asaria says the EB-5 program was able to create 276,000 jobs during the credit crunch thanks to its employment requirement, and that Caribbean CIPs should do the same.
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Moldova’s Foreign Minister indicated that the CIP does not interfere with the goal of one day joining the EU – rather the opposite – and that he’s glad to have had private-sector partners to help structure the program.
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“Only when something goes wrong do you see how dangerous these practices can be,” says Carlyle Rogers.
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Peter S. Vincent throws the real European security threat into stark relief: The 99.9% of annual new EU citizens that don’t come through CIPs are hardly checked at all.
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Speaking to IMI in Davos last week, CEO of the Malta Individual Investor Programme Agency, the entity charged with managing Malta’s citizenship by investment program, the MIIP, said he was, overall, “quite happy” with how his program was portrayed in the European Commission’s report on the investment migration industry. Watch the full interview by clicking
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Les Khan spoke to Investment Migration Insider during the 12th Global Residence & Citizenship Conference in Dubai earlier this month. Earlier this year, Saint Kitts & Nevis halved the investment requirement for its real estate option, reducing it from US$400,000 to US$200,000. The move has paid off, according to the CIU-boss. “Our real estate option
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During an interview with IMI at the Investment Immigration Summit in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, Bruno L’ecuyer, CEO of the Investment Migration Council, spoke about how the industry association is meeting the challenges brought on by increased scrutiny from supranational bodies like the EU and the OECD. “We want to meet with the
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Speaking to Investment Migration Insider during the Investment Immigration Summit in Hong Kong last week, Jean Francois Harvey, head of the law firm that bears his name, spoke about the practical consequences of his employees appearing on hidden camera in an investigative report by Canada’s CBC last month. Questioned as to what was the fallout
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In an interview with Investment Migration Insider, Sophia, the AI-sensation from Hanson Robotics and the first ever robot to obtain citizenship, said the benefits of investment migration, to both host countries and clients, were extraordinary. Sophia, who spoke during the 12th Global Residence and Citizenship Conference in Dubai today, further indicated she is totally, definitely,
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In an interview with TVM yesterday, Charles Mizzi, Chief Communications Officer of the Malta Individual Investor Programme Agency (MIIPA), revealed that Malta had turned down two applicants – one from North Africa, the other from Asia – even though the individual in question had previously received approvals from other programs. The decision, Mizzi told TVM,
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Residence and citizenship by investment programs have come under criticism in the European Parliament in recent months with several MEPs calling for their closure. That – according to Chair in EU Constitutional Law at the University of Groningen, Professor Dimitry Kochenov – would be impossible, unless the European Union first became a superstate. More on
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Yakof Agius, Chief Officer of Risk and Compliance at the Malta Individual Investor Programme Agency, explains how a systematic approach coupled with the collection of data points on large numbers of applicants can, over time, help predict the outcome of a citizenship by investment application before it is even lodged. The Malta IIP, by many
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Investment Migration Insider spoke to Roderick Cutajar, head of the Malta Residence Visa Programme, during the 2018 Investment Migration Forum in Geneva. He revealed that the program’s application numbers were quickly approaching 800, that the strong interest had led to a few months’ increase in processing time, and that many applicants are buying – rather than
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Jonathan Cardona, CEO of the Malta Individual Investor Programme, told Investment Migration Insider during an interview that he believes Malta’s due diligence was “a cut above the rest”, that high due diligence standards would “save the industry”, and that other CIP-countries would have “no option” but to implement similar standards to remain sustainable. Commenting on
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In this second part of an interview with Investment Migration Insider, Dr. Christian H. Kälin, CEO and Chairman of Henley & Partners, talks about where the residence and citizenship by investment industry will be in five years. “There will be more regulation, no question,” said Kälin, and indicated a focus on due diligence would become
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During an exclusive interview with Investment Migration Insider, head of the Vanuatu Information Centre, James Harris, revealed three separate pieces of major news: One, the price of the Vanuatu Development and Support Programme (the DSP, effectively a CIP) has been reduced. Two, his office has already successfully processed several cases of citizenship by investment in Vanuatu with
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