Author: darioa

Entrepreneur Visa Programmes Will See Explosive Growth

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? […]

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From the Ground Up: St. Lucia’s Ever-Evolving CIP Pre and Post Covid-19

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 […]

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The Rise of the Regional Citizen

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 […]

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Good Governance In Investment Migration Will Fuel Economic And Sustainable Development In A Post-Pandemic World

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 […]

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Malta: NGOs short-changed by donations error receive €1m in passport money

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 […]

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United States: FAQs on the June 2021 EB-5 Program Changes

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 […]

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United States: Immigrant-investor program EB-5, like the wicked witch, is dead, at least for the moment

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 […]

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Finland: Aging Finland seeks to attract skilled immigrants

Source: dw.co.uk Published: 22 June 2021 This year, the United Nations (UN) ranked Finland the world’s happiest country for the fourth year running. The recognition is based on international surveys in which citizens are asked about their perceived happiness. But Finland also faces a major demographic dilemma, namely the fact that 39% of its shrinking workforce is currently over 65. […]

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