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 […]
In terms of mainstream media coverage, the pandemic appears to have had a positive impact on the industry; nary a week now goes by without investment migration practitioners making appearances in heavy-weight publications. Investment migration people in the news this week included: Jean-Francois Harvey of Harvey Law Group Alexander Varnavas of Varnavas Law Georg Chmiel […]
The unique nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses new opportunities for Grenada’s Citizenship by Investment (CBI)/E-2 visa programme, to continue real estate investments, job creation, infrastructure development or investments in government bonds towards economic viability of the Caribbean. Considering coronavirus (pandemic responses) crisis management, Grenada’s reassurance in times of crisis offers unique flexibility, once a […]
At the budget address for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced that progress has been made towards the construction of the international airport. ‘We have completed the necessary property surveys, and Cabinet has approved for the acquisition of 213 properties required for the airport construction, of which 47 are farms. The total […]
Even before the pandemic, the American passport had been in decline, sliding in the past five years from first place to being tied for seventh on the latest Henley Passport Index, a ranking of the world’s most powerful passports. Since March, the United States’ inability to control the spread of COVID-19 has led to an […]