Category: News

PM Denies Receiving Funds for Election Campaign Through CBI Project

The Qatar-based Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel, Al Jazeera, in a one-hour programme aired across the region earlier this week, alleged that Caribbean countries with CBI programmes were also selling diplomatic passports to individuals who make significant financial contribution to political parties. The television station named Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and the […]

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Citizenship Bill Will Create More Problems Than it Might Solve

The proposed “Citizenship (Amendment) Bill” is yet another blatant anti-Muslim legislation by the BJP government in India. The bill proposes to amend the Citizenship Act 1955 so as to enable Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, and Parsi illegal migrants from three neighbouring countries (Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan) to become eligible for citizenship of India. In […]

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Billionaire Deripaska Stripped of Cyprus Passport – Politis

Cyprus has stripped Kremlin-friendly Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and two other Russian nationals of Cypriot passports after admitting flaws in its citizenship-for-investment program, Cyprus’ Politis newspaper reported Wednesday. Cyprus said this month it had started a process to strip 26 individuals of citizenship they received under a secretive passports-for-investment scheme. Sources on the Mediterranean island had told Reuters its list […]

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This Caribbean Island is on Track to Become the World’s First “Hurricane-Proof” Country

It started in the evening on September 18, two years ago. The winds picked up; waves began crashing ashore with intensity; the skies darkened. Unbeknownst to the people of Dominica, Hurricane Maria was slowly gathering the strength it needed to destroy over 90 percent of the island’s structures, cripple its economy, and force a small country […]

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CMB Announces the New EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization Regulations Have Taken Effect, What Does That Mean?

The new EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization Regulations are effective. Although there are many changes to the EB-5 program that are included in the new regulations, the biggest changes are: increased minimum investment amounts, new targeted employment area (TEA) definitions, and designating authority of TEAs is taken away from the State and the United States Citizenship and […]

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New EB-5 Rules May Not Take Effect on Nov 21 as 6-Year Re-Authorization Likely This Year

New EB-5 rules raising the minimum investment to $900,000 are scheduled to take effect this week. But President Kraft of IIUSA thinks there’s a good chance that won’t happen. The new re-authorization bill “definitely eliminates gerrymandering, makes it very clear what projects would qualify in urban distressed areas and in rural areas,” says Kraft, speaking […]

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