Many U.S. citizens whose families immigrated from Europe are eligible, and the pandemic has caused an uptick in applications. Growing up in Chicago, Juliana Calistri was surrounded by all things Italian: music, food and language. Ms. Calistri’s grandparents were raised in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, and though her father was born in Chicago, he spoke […]
Vanuatu’s Development Support Program aims to become the first CIP to allow stateless people to apply for citizenship by investment. Vanuatu Lifestyle (the trade name of VAN-LS Ltd), a company that’s also registered as an accredited agent for the Vanuatu Development Support Program (DSP), has obtained a three-year exclusive license to handle applications from people […]
The government of Dominica has announced that it will be launching the Entrepreneur Visa, designed to recognize the government’s interest in providing a unique status to applicants who make a significant financial investment in the country. The visa platform is also designed to ‘add valuable foreign direct investment into the private sector. Moreover, it clearly […]
COVID-19 has shifted the factors people consider when deciding where they live, and many are increasingly looking to establish residence or citizenship for their families in an alternative jurisdiction. This blog looks at their options. The world has faced a series of unexpected challenges in 2020. The coronavirus pandemic continues to have a wide-ranging health […]
A leak of government documents obtained by Al Jazeera has revealed that the Republic of Cyprus sold citizenship to dozens of people, many of whom are linked to crime and corruption, through the Cyprus Investment Program (CIP). These documents are now known as the Cyprus Papers and include over 1,400 approved applications to the CIP. […]
With the introduction of CBI (Citizenship-by-investment) programs, structures have been put in place to allow for maximum preservation of wealth, financial security and freedom of travel. The recent events related to COVID-19 have shifted priorities and made investors reconsider the selection of programs. Access to a quality and responsive healthcare team along with medical services […]
By some accounts COVID-19 has just about changed everything we know about the world that we live in. Well, almost everything. Be other changes as they may, one permanent fixture going forward will be Citizenship by Investment (CBI), the idea of committing a significant long-term investment into a country with the prospect of obtaining citizenship […]
I am not a Twitter person; I signed up three years ago out of curiosity and only used few times. I prefer the traditional articles as I can’t conceive the core of an article concentrated in few words. That was until I read Saint Lucia’s Primer Minister’s tweet, Allen M. Chastanet. During the whole pandemic, […]
A New Favorable Financial Dawn For Investors During these unusual times, with the pandemic, economies and individuals suffering financially, many High Net Worth Investors (HNWI) are contemplating obtaining residency in more favorable countries, such as the U.S. In the U.S., there are signs of recovery in certain industries as well as improvements in the health […]
An international fundraising effort has begun in France to fund a legal challenge to lower the cost to Americans of renouncing their US citizenship. For most people who move countries the focus is on obtaining citizenship of their new country, which gives them all sorts of extra rights foreigners do not have. The majority of […]
