The UK Government has proposed fundamental changes to the Tier 1 visa category through a Statement of Changes released today. Changes include: Introduction of new Start-up and Innovator visa categories to replace the Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) and Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) routes, with applicants in these categories assessed by trusted endorsement bodies vetted by the […]
Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP is pleased to announce three of its partners have received recognition in the 2018 Top 25 issue of EB5 Investors Magazine: Ron Klasko, Daniel Lundy, and Anu Nair. Each year, the magazine gives recognition to the EB-5 industry’s leading and most influential attorneys and service providers. To be eligible for […]
Individuals naturalized under Vanuatu’s Development and Support Programme (VDSP) – one of two concurrent citizenship by investment programs in the Pacific archipelago state – will no longer be “honorary citizens”. Whether they will now have the right to political participation remains unclear. Speaking to IMI during the Investment Immigration Summit in Dubai today, James E. Harris, Managing […]
The Hon. Prime Minister on February 18, visited the sites of the Georgetown and Cotton Hill Housing Settlements to get a first-hand view of the progress of the project. This is all part of government’s initiative to build comfortable and adequate housing conditions for citizens and also in keeping with the mandate of making Dominica […]
Responding to news that Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, is to lose her UK citizenship, Rachel Logan, Amnesty International UK’s Legal Programme Director, said: “The Home Secretary’s revoking of Shamima Begum’s British citizenship is legally and morally questionable. “Effectively rendering Begum stateless, even if only temporarily, is simply […]
Saint Lucian Nestor Alfred has been named the chairman of the Citizenship by Investment Program Association (CIPA), a regional body that is made up of Citizenship by Investment (CUI) unit heads of countries that have such investment programs. Alfred, who is head of Saint Lucia’s Citizenship by Investment Unit, was appointed on January 31. CIPA […]
There has been a huge increase in the number of wealthy expatriate residents in the UAE who are willing to spend hundreds of thousands to millions dirhams in exchange for a second passport — and the privilege to travel the world freely — despite allegations of fraud against some immigration firms. In 2018, requests made […]
Under the new golden visa rules, a Cyprus passport will now be granted in exchange for an investment of €2.5m, up from €2m, including the purchase of a residency. The investment amount is €2m if the investment is made solely in residential real estate, at least a quarter of which must be spent on a […]
The Central Asia countries have a great potential for attracting foreign investors due to rich natural resources, low labor cost and growing population. According to the estimates of the Boston Consulting Group, the Central Asia countries, primarily Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, will be able to attract about $40 billion–$70 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) in […]
The citizenship-by-investment scheme’s contribution to economic growth in the past three years was just 1.2 per cent of 13 percentage points, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said Wednesday, as the cabinet tightened procedures for applicants to the programme, which has been criticised by the EU as lacking transparency. Speaking after the cabinet meeting, Georgiades said the […]
