Quebec just made it a little harder for wealthy immigrants to walk through a back door into Vancouver and Toronto real estate. On Wednesday, the provincial government announced changes that make it a touch harder to qualify for the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP), a program that offers permanent residency in exchange for making an investment […]
Wealthy Chinese individuals who applied to participate in the UK’s HNWs and UHNWs applying to come and live in the UK on these investor visas – formally known as “Tier 1 Investor Visas”, which enable the individuals in question to remain in Britain for three years and four months, with an option to extend this another […]
“Antigua and Barbuda’s economy has recovered from the extended crisis.” Those were the words expressed by the Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund, (IMF) Alejandro Werner, in a letter of congratulations to Prime Minister, Gaston Browne on his victory at the polls a week and a half ago. In his […]
A Syrian man under US sanctions for assisting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime received residency status in Hungary under the controversial “golden visa” scheme launched by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, according to reports. Direkt36 and 444.hu reported in a joint investigation on Wednesday that Hungary had given a residency permit to Atiya Khoury, who the US Treasury […]
The St. Lucia Gazette has featured the names of six individuals who have lost their Saint Lucian citizenship under the Citizenship by Investment programme (CIP). The names of the six individuals – Hamid Sakhidad Barahooei, Sanioura Ali El Sayed, Mariya Barahooei, Taliya Barahooei, Shamel Alabboush and Emad Ahmed Mohsen Alzari – were published on page […]
The state of California sued the Trump administration Monday night, arguing that the decision to add a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census violates the U.S. Constitution. The state’s attorney general acted just after the Commerce Department announced the change in a late-night release. The action was followed Tuesday by an announcement from New York Attorney […]
Thousands of Canadian investors face being locked out of America should Trump terminate NAFTA. Since 2007, 20,406 Canadians have been granted E2 treaty visas allowing them to invest in the US, creating thousands of jobs for American workers in the process. However, if Trump abolishes NAFTA, it could spell the end of access to the E2 […]
The following is a statement from the Honourable Dr. Timothy Harris, prime minister and minister of finance, on the new options for the St. Kitts and Nevis CBI Programme: Fellow Citizens and Residents: Over the past several weeks, the federal government has been engaged in a consultative process with developers and other stakeholders to maintain […]
The Investment Migration Council has submitted its response to the Consultation document issued by the OECD entitled ‘Preventing Abuse of Residency by Investment Schemes to Circumvent the CRS.’ The official response is made available freely in the following link. We take this opportunity to thank all our members who submitted theirs comments and those who […]
Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes made the announcement in a Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament. Legally, the UK could only extend the controls for a final 2 years if there was clear evidence that removing the controls would lead to a serious labour market disturbance. The Government has considered the evidence and with unemployment at near record lows, […]
