Marcus Beveridge “wouldn’t be surprised” if New Zealand exceed $10 billion in revenue a year from immigration alone.
David Lesperance: “There has been no sign of even an attempt at the legislative heavy lifting required to make the Trump Card a reality.”
Nuri Katz: “I have rarely seen anybody spend more than 10% of their net worth on an immigration program, and generally it’s more like 5%.”
“The idea that the [EB-5] program could be ended or somehow amended before that [Gold Card’+] came as a big surprise to practically everyone”
Armand Arton on growing American interest: “We will definitely be very busy the next six months with the US market.”
David Lesperance: “Rachel Reeves is going to open up the non-dom cookie jar and realise there were fewer cookies than she thought.”
Dominic Volek: “This mass movement is a clear indicator of the shifting dynamics in global wealth and power.”
If Eurocrats really cared about maintaining Caribbean CIP integrity, they would focus on due diligence rather than prices, writes Nuri Katz.
We need to stop selling passports and start selling citizenships, argues Nuri Katz, our guest in this episode of the Mobility Standard.
“Every time governments threaten to shut these programs down, there’s a surge of people trying to get through the door,” said Katz.
Investment migration people in the news this week.
“Blaming residency by investment programs [for the lack of affordable housing] is a politically attractive but over-simplistic response.”
Investment migration people in the news this week.
Caribbean CIPs are forced to fall in line with the demands of the bigger countries or face sanctions themselves, writes Nuri Katz.
“High net worth individuals think the situation is so bad in America right now that it actually sounds worse than it is in Russia.”
“There is not the slightest possible justification for the [golden visa] program not to work,” says the President of APPII.
Nuri Katz says recent weeks’ events show that “unless something changes drastically, we are closer to the end of the CBI industry than to the beginning of it.”
Nuri Katz calls CBI vetting “the best due diligence known to man.” He also takes part of the blame for the industry’s failure to effectively lobby Brussels.
In a surprise move on the eve of expiry, the Montenegrin government gives the citizenship by investment program a new lease on life.
“There are probably 20,000 or 30,000 people who want to [renounce US citizenship], but they can’t get the appointment,” Lesperance said.