Since You Asked: What Commissions Do Caribbean Citizenship Programs Pay Agents?
A reader wants to know, once and for all, how much each program pays agents in commissions. Answering that question is harder than you think.
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Health-Passports Part 2: CBI in a World Where Nationality Alone Doesn’t Determine Mobility
Michael Krakat asks: What is a passport’s nominal visa-freedom worth if health-restrictions prevent you from boarding a plane in the first place?
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The Passport’s Future: Is The Physical Travel Document on Its Way Out?
Thanks to the technological advances Nicola Mangion explores in her article, forgetting your passport at home may soon be a non-issue.
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What If, When Borders Reopen, CBI Citizens Actually Move to Their COVID-Free Island Havens?
How prepared are small CIP countries for a potential deluge of CBI-citizens who want to move to their COVID-free islands when borders reopen?
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10 Biggest Investment Migration Programs Raised a Collective US$10 Billion Last Year
Though 2020 is unlikely to be a record year for the market as a whole, some programs are hitting all-time highs during the pandemic.
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Record Numbers of Americans Renouncing Citizenships Has Nothing to Do With The Pandemic
Media reports this month say the pandemic is driving record expatriation. The reality, writes David Lesperance, is exactly the opposite.
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What Killed Antigua & Barbuda’s CBI Real Estate Option?
Between 2015 and 2017, one in five Antigua CIP investors chose the real estate option. In the last two years, only one in forty did. Why?
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7 Reasons The E2 Visa is The Next Big Thing in US Immigration From 2021 Onwards
A confluence of events in many treaty countries will see the E2 visa emerge as one of the most popular visa options in the next 12-18 months.
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Four Unsung Investment Migration Markets That Deserve Your Attention
Christopher Clowes explores the potential of four fast-growing investment migration markets that don’t get enough attention.
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What the EU Needs to Learn From Canada’s Targeted Investment Migration Model
The money-for-rights model of investment migration – while economically successful – is a hard sell, politically. Canada’s model offers a compromise.
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How China’s Investment Migration Market Will React to Higher Investment Requirements
Faced with rising minimum investment requirements among RCBI programs across the globe, China’s Investment Migration market will respond in three ways.
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The 2020s Will Be a Pivotal Decade for India’s Investment Migration Market
Home to nearly half a million HNWIs with low mobility, India has more potential than, perhaps, any other investment migration market.
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Programs Mulling Price-Hikes in 2020: What is the Optimal Min. Investment Requirement?
A handful of investment migration programs are weighing the introduction of higher investment thresholds this year. How can they price it correctly?
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Frontier Dispatches: Nigeria’s Investment Migration Market
30,000 millionaires, terrorism, a cash-economy, and trust issues: Nigeria’s investment migration market offers great challenges, but even greater potential.
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Malta RVP’s Financing Option Shows Why the RCBI Market is About to Get 10 Times Bigger
Investment financing has the potential to catapult investment migration from UHNWI luxury product status to the much greater mass affluent market.
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China’s RCBI-Industry Unanimous: International Firms Who Target Direct Clients “Must be Opposed”
Luc Lu’s recent tour of China’s investment migration market highlight a rapidly changing industry that’s reconfiguring to deal with multiple crises.
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After Three Years of Decline, Australia’s SIV Program Regains Momentum
The program’s largest fund manager says that, thanks to non-SIV follow-up investments, total FDI arising from the program may be close to A$50 billion.
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Investor Migrants Becoming More Sophisticated, Favoring Fund Investment Over Real Estate
Portugal’s recent focus on private equity investment funds for Golden Visas reveal investor migrants are now sensitive to sound tax and exit strategies.
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City-Specific Citizenship by Investment: Practicable or Pipe-Dream?
Could we soon see the rise of CIPs that apply to cities, rather than to whole countries? One progressive European city provides a template.
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E2-Shortcut to the US: The New Must-Have for Citizenship by Investment Programs?
Why is the Turkey CIP the world’s most popular despite its lack of Schengen-access? Why are 98% of Grenada CIP-applicants Chinese? Answer: E2.
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