In conversation with Parag Khanna, Global Strategy Advisor, Author and Founder of FutureMap China has long been viewed as Asia’s anchor economy, but the focus of global growth is fast shifting towards Southeast Asia. The IM Yearbook spoke with Parag Khanna about the Western perception of Asia, the rise of Southeast Asia and how it […]
Interview with Chad Ellsworth, Partner at Fragomen. Fragomen’s Chad Ellsworth believes that governments will implement a greater number of entrepreneur visa programmes to attract foreign innovators who can help with economic recovery and job creation in the post-Covid-19 era. We are seeing an increasing number of entrepreneurial visa programmes being launched. What’s driving this trend? […]
Interview with Brenda Floissac Fleming, Senior Partner at the firm Floissac Fleming & Associates and Managing Director of Polaris Citizenship & Investment Consultancy Services in St. Lucia & Keith Isaac, attorney at-law at the firm Floissac Fleming & Associates and General Manager of Polaris Citizenship & InvestmentConsultancy Services in St. Lucia. The Caribbean CBI industry […]
Special feature: Antigua & Barbuda The outlook for sunny Antigua and Barbuda has become cloudy due to the outbreak of Covid-19, but the Caribbean island nation is determined to make the most out of new opportunities. Its citizenship-by-investment programme is going to play a key role in defining what the country is going to look […]
Covid-19 will transform the investment migration market and will accelerate the already existing trend of regionalisation, says Prof. Kristin Surak from the London School of Economics and author of the forthcoming book Citizenship 4 Sale. The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged international mobility like no other event before. What observations about the investment migration industry during […]
Authors: Bruno L’ecuyer Source: ifcreview.com Over the past few years, investment migration – the industry intertwined with global wealth creation and people’s movement – has been defined by growth and expansion to reach an estimated value of €20 billion[i]. According to Investment Migration Council (IMC) research, 100 countries around the world now offer legal investment migration […]
Source: timesofmalta.com Published: 10 July 2021 Three major charitable organisations that suffered a shortfall in donation income due to a technical error by a telecoms provider have received a collective total of €1 million earned from Malta’s golden passport scheme. The €1 million donation from the National Development and Social Fund will be split between the […]
Source: klaskolaw.com Published: 6 July 2021 The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program saw two very important changes in June 2021. Below are the most common questions our EB-5 visa lawyer team members have been answering as the industry adjusts to these major, and likely temporary, changes. 1. WHAT EB-5 PROGRAM CHANGES OCCURRED IN JUNE 2021? Two major changes occurred. First, a federal court ruled […]
Source: findbiometrics.co.uk Published: 30 June 2021 The Caribbean Commonwealth of Dominica will soon be rolling out a new biometric passport for its citizens. The document will formally debut on July 19. Citizens who renew their passports will automatically be issued biometric documents, while those who have recently applied for a new passport will be given the […]
Source: washingtontimes.com Published: 30 June 2021 The EB-5 program has two main parts; the smaller piece of the program, that calling for aliens to actually run a business in the U.S., has a permanent authorization but few customers. But the larger segment, which dealt with pooling aliens’ investments through middleman “regional centers,” never had a permanent […]
