Brookes: The Ticking Time Bomb of CBI Real Estate – Investors Have No Clear Exit Strategy
Hundreds of investors unable to sell on their CBI real estate shares is a PR nightmare waiting to happen, writes Gareth Brookes.
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Paul Girodo: Golden Visas May Be On Their Way Out – Here’s What Will Replace Them
By this time next year, EU golden visa programs will have changed so much that they will have effectively ended. But exciting new programs are coming online to replace them, writes Paul Girodo.
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Laszlo Kiss: Portuguese Foreign Minister’s Statement Does Not Bode Well For Golden Visa Route to Citizenship
If it turns out Portugal Golden Visa investors who spent 35 days in the country end up NOT qualifying for citizenship, the ramifications for the global IM market will be momentous, writes Laszlo Kiss.
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Carlyle Rogers: 3 Vital Steps to Ensuring Caribbean CIP Sustainability
Carlyle Rogers argues that, beyond due diligence cooperation, the Caribbean CIPs should adopt a price floor immediately, limit new programs, and coordinate a media pushback against CBI-lies.
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Adapt or Perish: How Investment Migration Can Survive the European Parliament’s Antagonism
The European Parliament has made its opposition to investment migration clear. This leaves the industry facing some stark choices, writes Dr. Hussain Farooq.
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Are Prime Ministerial Roadshows to Promote Citizenship by Investment Programs Appropriate?
Carlyle Rogers asks whether it may be time to end the practice of Caribbean political leaders going on “beauty parades” to promote their CIPs.
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Carlyle Rogers: RCBI-Industry Finds Itself in Crosshairs as OECD Continues War on Tax Competition
Contrary to protestations made by some, the OECD does not care about money laundering, due diligence weaknesses, terrorist financing, and fraud concerns regarding RCBI programs, writes Carlyle Rogers.
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Opinion: Citizenship by Investment’s Role in Finally Emancipating Former Colonies
Opinion of the editor Citizenship by investment has granted small, developing countries in the Caribbean and Pacific the means to
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Hanafin: 5 Common Criticisms of Investment Migration, Dissected
Think of the investment migration market as one with 7 billion clients and about 200 competitors.
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Kochenov: EU Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence – When the Commission Misleads
Contributed by Dr. Dimitry Kochenov Today, on 23 January 2019 the Commission released its ‘Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence
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Orlov: Structuring Your Residency and Holdings to Have Freedom and Security for Generations
Evgeny OrlovPanama Frequently, my readers or conference attendees ask me how ultra high net worth individuals, families, and international
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Opinion: Why Portugal, Objectively Speaking, Has the Best Golden Visa in the World
Kianoush MahmoudiDirector and Head of Business Development at Cankash Company Europe has no shortage of citizenship and residence by
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Tajick: 50+ Misleading, False and Biased Statements Found in EU Report on RCBI
Recently, the EU Parliament published a draft report on financial crimes, tax evasion, and tax avoidance. This draft report “Concludes that
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Chetcuti: 5 Common Reasons for Rejection of Maltese Citizenship Applications
Dr. Jean-Philippe ChetcutiContributor “More high net worth individuals are seriously weighing their options in resorting to global citizenship to
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Tajick: The RCBI-Industry’s Role in Shaping the New Global Economy
Researcher Stephane Tajick explores the near-to-medium term future of the RCBI-market, and tries to predict the industry’s role in the
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The RCBI-Industry’s Greatest Threat is of Our Own Making and We Can Stop it Ourselves
Opinion of the editor Boy, it’s been one hell of a month for the residence and citizenship by investment industry!
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4 Reasons Citizenship by Investment Isn’t a Security Threat to the EU
Opinion of the editor The European Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jourova, has called citizenship by investment programs (CIPs) a “serious
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Henderson: RCBI-Advisors Lose Clients By Not Really Listening to Them
When I renounced US citizenship last year, after years of debating the idea, the reaction from my friends and colleagues
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33 Countries That Could Open a Citizenship by Investment Program
Over the last seven years alone, the number of formal citizenship by investment programs (CIPs) has grown from two to twelve,
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What Happens in Year 5? Chinese Applicants to Portugal’s Golden Visa Are Watching and Waiting
This article was contributed by Daniel Twomey, Head of Business Development at La Vida Europe Ltd. Since its inception in
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