Q2 was the lowest-grossing quarter in four years for citizenship by investment in Vanuatu. And it’s likely to get considerably worse.
Chairman Warsal is expected to reveal details on the program’s long-awaited real estate investment option next week.
Hermetically sealed borders notwithstanding, Vanuatu saw record CBI-revenues in 2020, amounting to more than 42% of all government income.
In the first video in a three-part series, we talk about yellow passports, honorary citizenship, and the new chairman’s plans for international engagement.
In a historic release prepared exclusively for IMI, Vanuatu shares, for the first time, statistics on all its past and present CBI programs.
Vanuatu Govt.: “It clearly shows conflict of interest on your side as you clearly knew there would be a change of government when the contract elapsed.”
Vanuatu’s new government wants more transparency for its two CIPs. Particularly for the VCP, a program exclusively operated by a single agent in Hong Kong.
Having more than tripled in two years, revenues from CBI are already the country’s main income source and may soon make up more than 50% of the total.
Undercutting of the Government’s officially sanctioned retail price has led to confusion in the market-place, writes James. E. Harris.
In the first four months of 2019, revenue from Vanuatu’s two citizenship by investment programs nearly equaled the amount raised in all of 2017.
In a welcome series of new Regulation Orders, Vanuatu moves to harmonize the terms for its citizenship programs.
In a letter to the editor, Hong Kong lawyer Martin Fairbairn offers disquieting answers to critical questions on Vanuatu citizenship by investment.
Why do you have two programs with different prices? Are the citizenships honorary or not? And who is Jimmy from
Improving intake faster than any other CBI destination, Vanuatu has seen income from its two citizenship programs triple in a single year.
Income from citizenship by investment in Vanuatu more than doubled in 2018 and now accounts for a third of overall government revenue.
Vanuatu, an island nation in the Pacific home to some 270,000 ni-Vanuatu – the demonym used for nationals of that