The logistics of capturing and sorting through due diligence findings have changed markedly in recent years. A vast amount of information about the average individual is readily available online, driven by the elimination of paper, ease of content creation, and explosion of mobile capture. This volume has the potential to become a challenge in […]
A core premise of investment migration is to enhance a country’s economy in exchange for residence or citizenship rights for individual investors. This is a good description of a classic ‘win-win’ formula. However, it is clear that the benefits of residence- and citizenship-by-investment programs for host nations go far beyond extra funding for the […]
William Worster presented his article “Human Rights and the Taxation Consequences of Renouncing Citizenship” at the 3rd Annual Academic Investment Migration Seminar in June 2018. His IMC Working Paper on the topic was subsequently published in the St. Louis University Law Journal. In this article, he claims that the taxes that the US […]
In 2013, the Republic of Cyprus adopted the Scheme for Naturalisation through Investment, now called the Cyprus Investment Programme. In the past 6 years, the programme has been operating with great success and has been amended several times. According to this Programme, any third-country national can acquire Cypriot citizenship if they meet certain economic […]
The International Court of Justice, in its 1955 judgment of Nottebohm, stated that nationality requires a ‘legal bond having at its basis a social fact of attachment, a genuine connection of existence.’[1] These famous yet contested words, if anything, presuppose an exclusively state-centric view, fixating the decision over in- and exclusion as being solely […]
The world is changing – globalisation has become an irreversible norm. We live in a time of unprecedented global peace, a new Pax Romana where conflicts are more often resolved through sanctions than kinetic warfare. The private sector has been far more successful than nation states at eradicating diseases like polio and malaria (witness the work […]
Were you told the truth by the bank? Did they explain …? Or did they merely say to you: “Sign here”? The Swiss Francs loan issue is not only of concern in our country, but was raised at a European level, as evidenced by the countless pending cases, with the result […]
The UK Tier 1 Investor Visa still remains to be one of the most sought-after visas in the world. According to Home office statistics ending March 2018, UK Tier 1 Investor Visa applications rose by 11% from the previous year, and there appears to be no signs of demand slowing down amid the hysteria […]
More than ever before the global Investment Migration (IM) industry needs to demonstrate transparency, responsibility, high standards of integrity and enhanced due diligence processes, given the levels of scrutiny, comment and challenge currently being experienced. As the IM industry matures and its popularity continues to develop there is a pressing need to demonstrate […]
Reports are wrong in stating that eight Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are on a ‘black list’ recently released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over Citizenship by Investment (CBI) and Resident by Investment (RBI) schemes that they operate. The OECD has not ‘black listed’ these countries – at least not […]
