Chinese investors dominated the Portuguese golden visa during the early years before falling to a record-low in 2020. In 2021, they are returning in force. Between the program’s opening in 2012 and the end of 2016, Chinese applicants accounted for an absolute majority of golden visas in Portugal, reaching a peak of 81% of the […]
The island of Dominica has a reputation for being the ‘nature island of the Caribbean’ and very soon, it will be open to digital nomads who want to live and work in a place where migrating sperm whales are a major visual feature of day-to-day life. The government has launched a way to lure working […]
India’s wealthy have topped a list of people seeking to relocate abroad through visa programmes that offer citizenship or right of residence in other countries in return for investments. There was very little Rahul (name changed) didn’t have going for him, when he made the tough call to leave India six years ago. He is […]
Recently, President Biden unveiled a $ 2 trillion infrastructure plan to fix roads and bridges, while boosting research and tackling climate change. Calling it a “once-in-a-generation investment in America,” he introduced the plan to address the inequalities exposed by the pandemic and to heal America’s economy from the bottom up. More recently, Biden specified how he would raise […]
Dominica’s newly launched Work in Nature visa offers a wide range of benefits including a healthy work-life balance in a nation that has globally accepted health and safety protocols. Dominica is engaging digital nomads under a new visa programme – Work in Nature (WIN) Visa – that allows relocation to work remotely and live in […]
Aiming to prevent self-serving developers from “recycling”, Turkish authorities say a single property may henceforth only be used once to qualify for citizenship. On Monday this week, Turkey amended its Guideline Regarding the Regulation on the Application of the Turkish Citizenship Law, bringing changes to the rules for property transactions between foreigners, particularly as it pertains to […]
British officials estimate 300,000 Hong Kongers could arrive in the next five years. It could yet become one of the biggest policy decisions of Boris Johnson’s premiership. The U.K. prime minister’s offer of a route to citizenship to potentially millions of Hong Kongers — in response to China’s imposition of a draconian national security law […]
Several pieces of recently introduced federal immigration legislation could weave new strands into the already complex web of the U.S. immigration system. The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, which was proposed by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats, is the most comprehensive. This bill would eventually allow most undocumented immigrants — about 3.4 percent of […]
The perfect storm of Covid and Brexit has seen an unprecedented surge in future pandemic prepping – it includes having multiple citizenships. There was a time when procuring multiple passports and citizenships was the stuff of airport thrillers not real life. It was a discreet deal between two sets of lawyers behind closed doors. It […]
British National (Overseas) passport holders can now apply for a special visa to work and study in the UK for up to five years Hong Kong residents bought four times as many luxury London properties in the previous year amid an expected immigration surge. Property buyers from Hong Kong purchased 8 per cent of homes […]
