Malta has the most transparent citizenship by investment scheme
Malta has the most transparent citizenship by investment scheme among all the CBI countries. Malta publishes annual report about Individual Investor Program (IIP) which publishes…
Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan
Founder and CEO of Citizenship Shop and Best Citizenships. World's Leading Expert in the Citizenship and Residence by Investment with 20+ years of experience in Finance, Banking, and consulting. Advising HNWI investors and families with citizenship and residence planning since 2011.
Top 10 countries in CBI passport rankings 2019
Best Citizenships (BC) designed a new ranking model for CBI passports based on Points Based Scoring (PBS) system. Although many indexes exist for ranking CBI passport,…
EB-5 is not suspended by shutdown
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Golden visa offers full path to Greek citizenship
The New 2018 Amendments to golden visa scheme offers full path to Greek citizenship and passport. The decision of the Minister of Interior no. 130181/6353/27.3.2018,…
Quebec IIP application intake period extended for 2019
Canada has extended the application intake period for Quebec immigrant investor scheme (QIIP) by five months previoulsy from March 31, 2019 to Aug 31, 2019. The maximum…
Dominica, St Lucia and Antigua CIP’s are cheaper than Moldova
Three Caribbean citizenship by investment programs (CIP’s) are cheaper than Moldova because the donation to public fund for 3 Caribbean CIPs in USD while Moldova requires…
Barbados tops Caribbean passport rankings in 2019
Barbados passport ranks as the best passport in the Caribbean taking 1st place overtaking Bahamas in the 2019 Henley passport rankings. The Bahamas and St…
30 Citizenship and residence by investment schemes
The Golden visa schemes (also known as RBI schemes) are more popular than citizenship by investment schemes in 2019. As of 2019, RBI schemes have collected…
Portugal expands golden visa scheme with green visas
The Portuguese parliament on Jan 11, voted to further expand the golden visa scheme by introducing new golden visa option known as Green visa investment. Draft Law…
Cheapest citizenship by investment for less than €100,000
We calculated at the prices of citizenship by investment programs (CBI) in euros, and we found that there are only three citizenship by investment schemes in…