Hong Kong, 26th November 2015 The Investment Migration Council (IMC), the worldwide association for Investor Immigration and Citizenship-by-Investment, head-quartered in Geneva, has opened offices in Hong Kong and is represented by Mandeville & Associates, a well-known Immigration Consultancy firm with over 20 years of experience in the industry. The IMC is constituted as a non-profit […]
10 November, 2015 – Washington While the ongoing migration crisis continues to preoccupy Europe’s policymakers and public’s, another important migration trend has almost disappeared from the headlines, although not from policymakers’ list of concerns: the emigration of well-prepared young Europeans to other European states and, more consequentially, to countries around the world. Even as these […]
The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published its much anticipated review on the current Tier 1 Entrepreneur and Graduate Entrepreneur visa system. This report was requested by the Home Secretary and asked the MAC to carry out a review of the UK’s arrangements for the entry and stay of non-EEA entrepreneurs under Tier 1 […]
The UK Government has today announced it is making changes to the Immigration Rules affecting various categories. Amongst other categories, changes refer to the Tier1, 2, 5 of the points based system. To download a copy of this ‘statement of changes’ please visit the UK government portal.
7 October, 2015 – Monaco The Government of Saint Lucia has officially launched its Citizenship-by-Investment programme at a Monaco conference. According to Prime Minister Kenny D. Anthony the Saint Lucia Citizenship Programme will commence accepting applications for citizenship by investment on January 1st, 2016 and will be limited to 500 applications per year. […]
1 October, 2015 – London, UK Henley & Partners, the global leaders in residence and citizenship planning, has published the annual Visa Restrictions Index for the last decade, and now launches the latest 2015 edition. This year’s Index, along with the unique cumulative data from the last ten years, gives an unprecedented and inimitable insight […]
22 September, 2015 – Washington, DC This afternoon, the US Senate released its proposal for the “continued resolution” (CR) to extend current funding levels for the federal government through December 11, 2015 and includes reauthorization of the EB-5 Regional Center Program for the same duration in Section 131. It is unclear exactly when the Senate […]
The Investment Migration Council (IMC), the worldwide association of professionals dealing with investor immigration and citizenship-by-investment, has today publicly launched the industry’s first worldwide Code of Ethics and Professional
Prompted by questions from the Member of Parliament for Rural West, Antigua & Barbuda learnt, for the first time, that more than 500 passports have been sold after a year and four months of operation of the Citizenship by Investment
A final suite of reforms to strengthen and modernize Canada’s citizenship laws will be fully in force as of June 11, 2015. The changes – part of a package of measures approved by Parliament last year – ensure new citizens can fully and quickly participate in Canada’s economy and Canadian society
