In the US alone, Chinese immigrant investors constitute almost 85% of all EB-5 allocations[1]. By the end of August 2017, 3,339 overseas Chinese fugitives were captured from more than 90 countries, recovering around USD 1.41 billion, with 628 of these being former officials[2]. As such, it is imperative to conduct robust investment immigration due […]
The Chilean economy has undergone a rapid transition from an economy with a per capita income of around 7,000 dollars in the early 1990s to a country with an income per head of near 25,000 dollars in 2017. This has followed two to three decades of rapid economic growth and internal transformation. Now the country […]
The United Kingdom and the European Union are currently negotiating the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement from the EU. One of the key issues in the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement from the European Union is the determination of the rights of 3.5 million EU nationals currently living in the UK and 1.2 million UK nationals currently living […]
Nationality of the Member State The concept of citizenship has been at the heart of the European project from its very beginnings. The Treaty of Rome (25 March 1957) in fact already emphasises the importance of no discrimination on the basis of nationality. This meant, of course, that there was to be no […]
Citizenship without a State Although the EU is not a state, it boasts a citizenship like many others, established more than 20 years ago by the Treaty of Maastricht. This citizenship allows the Union to distinguish between ‘European citizens’ and foreigners, termed ‘third-country nationals’ in contemporary Eurospeak. By law, every national of each […]
The co-authors of this Citizenship by Investment (“CBI”)/E-2 Visa FAQs for Grenada recently accepted an invitation to conduct a fact-finding trip to Grenada and Barbados hosted by the Grenada Consul General to the U.S. Our meetings in Grenada included the Prime Minister; the head of the Citizenship by Investment Unit, the Minister of Labor and […]
Proposed Regulations and Reforms Congress has yet again extended the temporary EB-5 Regional Center program for another five months from April 30, 2017 to September 30, 2017, as part of its Continuing Resolution. Although the EB-5 Regional Center (“RC”) program was created 25 years ago by Congress in 1992, it still remains […]
Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean, as a full member of the European Union, Malta is an ideal jurisdiction from which to do business within the EU, and also with jurisdictions situated outside the EU. A number of international businesses have established a presence in Malta for this reason, taking full advantage of […]
As practitioners, we are guided by our clients’ interests but also principally by the regulation and best practice standards by which we are ethically and legally bound. At times there can be disjuncture between the two, but that disjuncture is rightly diminishing. The causes of this are manifold. The regulatory frameworks that not […]
As we head towards mid-2017, we continue to see diametrically opposed developments across the European Union in investor, and broader, migration discourse. On the one hand, migration and nationalism featured prominently in European elections. In the Netherlands and France, centrist victories provided respite from anti-immigration rhetoric. The Dutch election was seen by some […]
