Introduction Investment migration refers to the attainment of citizenship or residential rights in return for a financial investment or other contributions to the host country. Today, investment migration is a global industry and is featured in immigration law in most UN recognized countries, albeit in different forms and shapes. Indeed, while there are currently 12 […]
Epidemics are related to population mobility. COVID-19 is special in that today’s global economy is intrinsically linked to unprecedentedly prevalent and frequent population mobility. Today, a virus can spread unabated. Free-traders have always argued that the global circulation of goods, services and labour is more important than factory assembly lines when it comes to sustaining […]
The March 13 EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program: Public Engagement provided a few program updates, and discussed the new visa availability approach to I-526 processing. IPO Chief Sarah Kendall mainly spoke, with additional input from DOS Visa Control Office Chief Charles Oppenheim. As usual I am sharing my recording, so that anyone can review the meeting for themselves. (3/23 Update: […]
Proclaimed to be at the heart of democracy, citizenship obviously thrives the world over, while democracies are in decline. Who is surprised though, knowing that citizenship was created to explain away socio-economic inequality and extract obedience from the population with no regard to the political particular type of a political system. Traditionally, for anyone who […]
THIS IS THE 3RD OF A TRILOGY OF BLOGS ADDRESSING THE E-2 VISA OPTION POST THE NOVEMBER 21 CHANGE IN EB5 INVESTMENT AMOUNT. FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF THE 3 BLOGS, WE WILL HOST A WEBINAR ON THIS SUBJECT. THE DATE WILL BE PUBLISHED ON KLASKOLAW.COM. This is the third in a trilogy of blogs discussing […]
The Investment Migration Council (IMC), in coordination with BDO USA, LLP (BDO), Exiger, and Refinitiv, formed a Due Diligence Working Group during the 2019 Investment Migration Forum to examine the state of play of due diligence in the investment migration sector and explore the potential for minimum standards across the industry. Oxford Analytica, commissioned by […]
“The IMC is the only global organisation that can drive forward the standardisation of the knowledge and best practices for this industry”, said Jusztina Rebeka Juhasz, an IMC member and the first practitioner to successfully complete the Certification in Investment Migration. That is why, the IMC constituted a new division – IMC Education & Training […]
EMPLOYMENT BASED CATEGORY 5 (EB-5) – NEW REGULATIONS EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 21, 2019. The new era reminds me of a saying “When you come to a fork in the road, take it!” Foreign nationals may obtain U.S. Permanent Residency by their personal investment into a U.S. business project which results in the creation of 10 direct […]
The United States historically has maintained friendly relations with Japan, and it is no doubt that the symbiotic relationship between the two countries is important both economically and socially. Currently there are roughly 426,000 Japanese citizens residing in the United States which is the highest number in the world outside Japan.1 With a strong presence of Japanese multi-national companies with offices in the […]
Whilst FACT has been in existence since 1983, carrying out investigations and developing sophistication in intelligence gathering, we are more recent entrants into the investment migration sector and we see an industry that is addressing challenges and embracing change. At the recent Global Citizenship Conference in London, FACT spoke about the importance of maintaining high […]
