In 2016, Canada’s business immigration Start-Up Visa program is expected to become a more popular financing option for start-up companies across Canada. Over the past few years, Canada’s long standing federal business immigration programs were largely eliminated with the cancelation of the former Federal Immigrant Investor program and the Federal Entrepreneur program. Its replacement programs […]
The Invest In the USA (IIUSA) Board of Directors has voted unanimously in support of a bipartisan, bicameral agreement among the chairmen and ranking members of both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to reform and reauthorize the EB-5 Regional Center Program (the “Program”). The vote followed a review of draft legislation which is the […]
High net worth individual (HNWI) wealth is expected to reach a record US$64.3 trillion by 2016[1]. Of that, predictions show almost US$12 trillion is new HNWI wealth, fostered by robust expansion in most world regions. Symmetry can be seen between this HNWI growth and applicant numbers to global investor migration programmes over 2015, suggesting a […]
Hong Kong, 26th November 2015 The Investment Migration Council (IMC), the worldwide association for Investor Immigration and Citizenship-by-Investment, head-quartered in Geneva, has opened offices in Hong Kong and is represented by Mandeville & Associates, a well-known Immigration Consultancy firm with over 20 years of experience in the industry. The IMC is constituted as a non-profit […]
10 November, 2015 – Washington While the ongoing migration crisis continues to preoccupy Europe’s policymakers and public’s, another important migration trend has almost disappeared from the headlines, although not from policymakers’ list of concerns: the emigration of well-prepared young Europeans to other European states and, more consequentially, to countries around the world. Even as these […]
The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published its much anticipated review on the current Tier 1 Entrepreneur and Graduate Entrepreneur visa system. This report was requested by the Home Secretary and asked the MAC to carry out a review of the UK’s arrangements for the entry and stay of non-EEA entrepreneurs under Tier 1 […]
The UK Government has today announced it is making changes to the Immigration Rules affecting various categories. Amongst other categories, changes refer to the Tier1, 2, 5 of the points based system. To download a copy of this ‘statement of changes’ please visit the UK government portal.
7 October, 2015 – Monaco The Government of Saint Lucia has officially launched its Citizenship-by-Investment programme at a Monaco conference. According to Prime Minister Kenny D. Anthony the Saint Lucia Citizenship Programme will commence accepting applications for citizenship by investment on January 1st, 2016 and will be limited to 500 applications per year. […]
1 October, 2015 – London, UK Henley & Partners, the global leaders in residence and citizenship planning, has published the annual Visa Restrictions Index for the last decade, and now launches the latest 2015 edition. This year’s Index, along with the unique cumulative data from the last ten years, gives an unprecedented and inimitable insight […]
22 September, 2015 – Washington, DC This afternoon, the US Senate released its proposal for the “continued resolution” (CR) to extend current funding levels for the federal government through December 11, 2015 and includes reauthorization of the EB-5 Regional Center Program for the same duration in Section 131. It is unclear exactly when the Senate […]
