As Russians are increasingly excluded from residence and citizenship by investment programs globally, Turkey’s CIP remains open.
“We expect to incur significant financial losses from this decision,” says company founder and Ukrainian national Anatoliy Lyetayev.
Malta suspends Russians and Belarusians from applying to MEIN and MPRP programs, ostensibly over inability to conduct adequate due diligence.
Greece joins Portugal in banning Russians from its golden visa program. Further Western countries are expected to make similar announcements.
With immediate effect, Portugal’s Foreign Affairs Minister has suspended the consideration of golden visa applications from Russians.
The group said it would “limit the sale of citizenship”. Whether it means to restrict just Russians or CBI programs altogether is not clear.
The outbreak of war in Ukraine today strikes at the heart of why this industry exists in the first place, writes Brian Greco.
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.
Anatoliy Lyetayev: In a startling turn of events, the US Embassy in Moscow has announced it will limit its services to emergencies only.
Russia is changing its mind on minimum investments and plans to open what would be the world’s most generationally inclusive golden visa.
The Ministry of Economy has offered a first glance at precisely under which conditions it will grant residency in exchange for investment.
The government is actively studying best practices among European residence by investment programs with an eye to launching their own in July 2021.
Lawmakers say they expect the liberalized policy to bring Russia as many as 10 million new citizens, chiefly from former Soviet countries.
A change in the citizenship law could have a significant impact on the investment migration market, but not in the way you might think.
Antigua & Barbuda’s deal with Russia catapults its passport’s overall landmass-access score from 25% of the world to 37%.
The Russian government has endorsed a visa-waiver agreement with the Commonwealth of Dominica that will allow Russian and Dominican citizens
These fiver countries are emerging as the fastest-growing source markets of EB-5 applicants.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica says his country is in the final stages of clinching a visa-waiver agreement with
British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced her officials will be scrutinizing the files of some 700 Russian investors who
During talks on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, and
