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After two years of falling approvals and investments, all arrows finally point in the right direction for New Zealand’s investor visas.
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While it plans new provisions for the Innovator visa in the fall, the Home Office says these will not “accommodate would-be Tier 1 investors”.
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The ILPA, an influential group of lawyers, accuses the Home Secretary of flouting democratic convention by unilaterally closing the program.
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The decision is reportedly motivated by a desire to cut economic ties to Russia and concerns the program is vulnerable to money laundering.
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After three years of lackluster application volumes, Italy’s investor visa is finally garnering interest thanks to the reforms of late 2020.
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Vietnamese, Iranian, South African, Indian, and British applicants all saw approvals far above historical norms, even adjusting for the higher quota.
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Winners, losers, surprises, and new trends. These are five graphs that characterize the year in golden visa programs.
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The strong rebound, says Tolstaia, reflects the UK’s persisting status as a “magnet for international UHNWIs.”
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New Zealand’s Investor Visa, which but a few years ago raised more than a billion NZ dollars a year, remains virtually dead 19 months after the onset of the pandemic.
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IMI interviews Eric Major and Alex Hopkin about the new Innovisa platform, which matches UK Innovator Visa applicants with eligible startups.
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UK Tier 1 specialist Dolfin’s special administrators have found a successor service provider for more than half of the firm’s client accounts.
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“The program is a mess at the moment,” says ANZ Migration’s James Hall. Some of his clients have waited more than a year for approvals that normally take 3 months.
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More than one in four Iranians, 22% of Pakistanis, 16% of Indians, and 13% of Egyptians have historically been turned away. No Brazilians have ever been rejected.
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In a ruling of some consequence, the UK Court of Appeal has overturned an Upper Tribunal decision that said the Maxwell/Eclectic structure was a rule-violation.
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The pandemic year left an indelible mark on virtually every investment migration program but by no means in equal measure.
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“We expect a significant bounce back in the number visa issuances as 2021 progresses,” said Shard Capital’s Head of Investor Visa, Farzin Yazdi.
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Interest in Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) remained robust despite the pandemic, the first statistical release in years reveal.
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The UK Tier 1 Investor Visa ended 2020 40% below 2019. Farzin Yazdi offers three reasons the market will bounce back in 2021.
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If you’re an investment migration practitioner who doesn’t know much about the South Korean investor visa, you’re not alone.
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Juwai IQI, Asia’s biggest prop-tech group, has partnered with IMI to produce a special report on immigrating to and investing in Singapore.
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