On January 1, 60 Minutes — an investigative programme aired by the US television company, CBS Corporation — ran a segment on ‘Citizenship by Investment Programmes’ (CIP) that are operated by several countries around the world. For reasons best known to itself, 60 Minutes focused on three Caribbean islands after paying merely a passing glance […]
An Everett developer’s guilty plea Wednesday to federal fraud charges is the latest example of abuse of the EB-5 program offering green cards to foreign investors. Lobsang Dargey used the program to fuel his fast rise in the Puget Sound real estate industry. Now, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison and […]
Lihua Tian’s lawsuit against government will proceed as she has been granted permission to challenge the revocation of her citizenship and Antigua & Barbuda passport. The High Court judge dealing with the matter has also put halt to the probe by a Committee of Inquiry investigating Lihua’s application and the approval process. […]
The government of Antigua & Barbuda has been advised that the country could be missing out on the chance to add rare professionals to the workforce by not having a “skilled persons” option in the Citizenship by investment Programme (CIP). The advice comes from Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Citizenship by Investment […]
The Hon Prime Minister, Dr. Roosevelt Skerrit is reporting that his recent trip to promote Dominica’s Citizenship by Investment programme was highly successful. Last week, Hon Skerrit led a delegation of nine Dominicans on a series of trips to in the hopes of meeting and attaining prospective investors for Dominica. At a press […]
Former Nationalist minister says Henley & Partners, concessionaires of Malta’s Individual Investor Programme, have reproduced his 2012 foreword for the latest edition of their citizenship manual Henley & Partners’ decision to include a four-year-old foreword by former Nationalist minister Tonio Fenech in their latest edition of the Global Residence and Citizenship Handbook, which was […]
In her speech to the Conservative Party conference in October this year, Theresa May declared that ‘if you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere’. In the febrile atmosphere of post-referendum Britain, this statement caused consternation. Here was a top level political rejection of the values of internationalism to […]
Not many governments or citizens in the bloc of 15 nations in the Caribbean were hoping or praying to have to live with an administration led by Donald Trump, but his victory in the 2016 presidential election could mean a financial windfall for some countries, particularly those in the Eastern Caribbean. For island […]
The Cyprus Citizenship-by-Investment Program was amended on 13 September 2016, pursuant to a decision of the Council of Ministers. The new decision aims to make a successful Citizenship-by-Investment Program even more accessible and customized to the needs and conditions of the Cypriot and global economy. Four major changes were introduced: Firstly, […]
This article concerns the dual citizenship control and restrictions in Russia on the background of general increasing legislative pressure in the Russian Federation, which have had place for several last years. Before anything else, it is necessary to point out that dual citizenship came into the Russian law only 25 years ago with […]
