The UK is set to leave the European Union today at 11pm, 31 January 2020, with Brexit day marking a new era for the nation and the future of UK immigration policy. Over the past three decades, immigration to the UK has boomed. Since 1990, 14 million people have arrived in the UK and nine million […]
The controversial cash-for-passports scheme will be retained, Prime Minister Robert Abela confirmed after pressure from the opposition and the business lobby to suspend or scrap it. Dr Abela was speaking after Nationalist party leader Adrian Delia said he had refused to consult with the government on who should be appointed the programme’s regulator. Dr Delia […]
President Trump added six countries to his administration’s travel ban Friday — including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country — in a widely anticipated expansion that Democrats blasted as “clearly discriminatory” against people from predominantly black and Muslim nations. Citing national security concerns, officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department said Trump’s […]
Following a comprehensive round of retroactive due diligence on citizenship by investment applications approved prior to the 2018 tightening of vetting procedures, Cypriot authorities identified 26 cases of inappropriate naturalizations. To rectify missteps of the past, the government vowed to revoke those citizenships. But the country’s own citizenship law has so far foiled the revocation plans. Philefteros explains the convoluted […]
The Commonwealth of Dominica has established a new embassy in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi – becoming the first Dominican mission to the country, but also to the Middle East. Speaking during the opening ceremony, earlier this week, Dominican Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, said the embassy also comes to service a […]
Cypriot Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides has told local press he expects new developments soon with regards to a visa-waiver agreement with the United States. “Our aim is to have developments towards that direction within 2020,” Christodoulides said on Tuesday, according to Cyprus Mail, adding that the competent deputy minister of the US government was slated to […]
Seven countries that either have or are considering a citizenship by investment program will go to the polls in 2020. In some nations, citizenship by investment looms as a key election issue while, for others, it takes a backseat to the common hot button issues of job creation and the delivery of social services. But […]
There has been an explosion in the investment migration market in recent years, with as many as 100 countries now offering either citizenship or residency by investment programmes. It is important that applicants gain value from their second citizenship, whether that is achieved through returns on investment or the benefits of visa-free travel. Antigua and Barbuda’s Citizenship […]
Japan has the world’s strongest passport; Afghanistan, at rank 107, the weakest. The Indian passport is closer to the bottom, ranked 84th in the world, according to the latest edition of the Henley Passport Index, widely acknowledged to be the most reliable of such rankings. According to Henley & Partners, the residence and citizenship planning […]
When Boris Johnson brought back his Brexit bill to this new majority-Conservative parliament, the debate shifted from whether the UK would leave the European Union to what kind of country we will become when we do. No longer having to court the votes of moderate MPs, Johnson is now trying to strip away the commitments he made. Gone are […]