In his State of the Union speech, European Commission President Juncker has praised the bloc for “bouncing back” after 10 years of crises. He has outlined bold proposals on EU trade, investment migration. – European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has endorsed the creation of a Eurozone finance minister and a European monetary fund. – The Commission […]
Russia will simplify the procedure for granting the citizenship to foreigners who invested over $10 mln in the economy of Russia’s Far East, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum. “It is planned to ease citizenship rules for foreign investors who will invest ten or more million dollars […]
Former senior private banking executive, Dominique N. Bolli, has been appointed as Head of Henley & Partners’ Government Advisory Practice, which provides assistance and expertise to countries around the world on economic development strategy and the implementation of residence- and citizenship-by-investment programs. Over the last 20 years, Henley & Partners’ Government Advisory Practice has assisted […]
Following a series of unsubstantiated claims of the sale of diplomatic passports, Grenada’s Minister of International Business, Nickolas Steele, has announced that a public list of diplomatic passport-holders is forthcoming. During a press briefing yesterday, Steele categorically stated that there is no selling of diplomatic passports in Grenada and that the government was committed to transparency. “We intend, […]
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) members that offer Citizenship by Investment Programmes are examining the possibility of developing standardised legislation regarding the initiative, according to regional media reports. Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has been quoted by CMC as saying that countries that have already established programmes in the sub region are holding discussions […]
Finance minister Harris Georgiades said that while the government plans to keep its citizenship by investment scheme in place, it may consider a cap on the number of beneficiaries, already exceeding 1,000 since 2013, Kathimerini reported in its Sunday edition. “The government has already gone ahead with a substantial revision of the scheme and will […]
Canadians will have a new way to identify their sex on passports and other government documents: “X” will join the options of male and female. The decision to allow the third category, indicating an “unspecified” sex, is intended to protect the rights of Canadians to identify by the gender of their choice, the country’s immigration […]
IPSA International Services, Inc., a US-based risk management firm, has been fined $259,200 by OFAC for violating US sanctions on Iran. The violations, worth $290,784, are said to have occurred when IPSA assisted two countries with their citizenship by investment programmes. Some of the applicants to the programmes were Iranian nationals and, because most of […]
What Price Would you Put on a Passport? Fiddling distractedly with her headscarf and in words little louder than a whisper, Amar Al-Sadi tells me Malta has saved her from a life of bombs, rubble and deadly disease. Read full story EU Passports For Sale Citizenship has become one of the latest and most controversial […]
The Home Office has today published the second report on the data collected on travellers departing and arriving in the UK as part of the exit checks programme. As part of legislation introduced through the Immigration Act 2014, carriers and port operators in the aviation, maritime and international rail industries were given the power to carry […]