IPSA International Services, Inc., a US-based risk management firm, has been fined $259,200 by OFAC for violating US sanctions on Iran. The violations, worth $290,784, are said to have occurred when IPSA assisted two countries with their citizenship by investment programmes. Some of the applicants to the programmes were Iranian nationals and, because most of […]
What Price Would you Put on a Passport? Fiddling distractedly with her headscarf and in words little louder than a whisper, Amar Al-Sadi tells me Malta has saved her from a life of bombs, rubble and deadly disease. Read full story EU Passports For Sale Citizenship has become one of the latest and most controversial […]
The Home Office has today published the second report on the data collected on travellers departing and arriving in the UK as part of the exit checks programme. As part of legislation introduced through the Immigration Act 2014, carriers and port operators in the aviation, maritime and international rail industries were given the power to carry […]
According to new statistics, net migration in the UK has fallen to the lowest level in three years. Migration has fallen by a quarter to 246,000 in a year as EU citizens are leaving Britain ahead of Brexit. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has also found that the number of people who are arriving to live in the […]
Geneva, 17 August 2017 The Investment Migration Council (IMC), the worldwide association for Investor Migration and Citizenship-by-Investment, has today announced the appointment of additional members to serve on its Governing Board and Advisory Committee. The new appointees include: Nadine Goldfoot, Partner, Fragomen LLP, UK (Governing Board) Ronald Klasko, Managing Partner, Klasko Immigration Law Partners, […]
New Zealand’s government has confirmed that Australia’s deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, is a dual citizen. Dual citizens are not allowed to run for public office under Australia’s constitution. Mr Joyce revealed earlier that he may have New Zealand citizenship by descent, but said he will take his case to the nation’s High Court. PM […]
Malta has ranked ninth in an analysis of citizenship by investment programmes conducted by an international research group of 12 countries, with the country among the top three for due diligence procedures. Cyprus and Malta also emerged as two of the most popular jurisdictions for EU and non-EU nationals in the Citizenship by Investment Index, published […]
Cyprus ranks 7th out of 12 countries studied in an analysis of citizenship-by-investment programmes by the Financial Times group’s Professional Wealth Management, ahead of Malta, Bulgaria and Austria, the other European Union member states on the list, Cyprus Mail reported. The research group ranked Dominica as the top jurisdiction in scope of the study, scoring an overall […]
The federal government has once again stripped Helmut Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship for serving in a Nazi death squad and lying about it to enter Canada. Oberlander, 93, was an interpreter for the Nazis and served in Einsatzkommando 10a, a group of mobile death squads that participated in the systematic extermination of Jews in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe […]
Downing Street has sought to rein in Chancellor Philip Hammondin an apparent attempt to prevent Brexit divisions descending into a cabinet civil war. Theresa May’s official spokesman made clear that freedom of movement will end in March 2019, despite previous indications from Mr Hammond that a similar system could continue after Brexit. The No 10 spokesman said further details of […]
