Traditionally, citizenship has been a legal status entailing the registration of an individual, including coming from a third country, with the government of a given country and his/her acceptance into that country’s political framework through legal means. Citizenship ‘by exception’ is the citizenship acquired in exceptional circumstances by an individual from another country, whereby the […]
Investors, regional centers, developers and others in the EB-5 industry have raised questions regarding the impact of the U.S. Presidential election on the U.S. EB-5 green card program. The short answer is that the impact on EB-5 is likely to be less than its impact on other areas of U.S. immigration law. At […]
The 28th May 2015 was a proud day for the Caribbean countries of Dominica, Grenada and St Lucia, as it was on this day that they signed visa waiver agreements with the European Union. They joined Antigua and Barbuda and St Kitts and Nevis, who were both granted visa waiver status by the EU […]
High-end investor Residence-by-investment (‘RBI’, in form of Significant- and Premium Investor Visa)[1] have long been but one segment within the overall choice of Australian immigration options: Its main systemic concern is the integration and regulation of the large influx of global migrants, keeping the overall intake under political control, allowing the Minister for Immigration […]
In the United States, the EB5 program allows wealthy foreign national investors to obtain U.S. permanent residency to be able to live and work in the United States, indefinitely. After five years of permanent residency, the foreign national can apply for Naturalization (U.S. Citizenship). The term EB5 means, Employment Based Category 5, and is […]
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 […]
