Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan

Best Citizenships (BC) has been re-launched as new online comparison platform for comparison of citizenship by investment and RBI/Golden visa schemes. All immigrant investor schemes can be compared with a new visual experience and up-to-date information.   The Best Citizenships platform has been serving HNW clients since 2011.   From just handful of immigrant investor…

The highly anticipated Moldova citizenship by investment program (MCBI) was officially launched at Global Residence and Citizenship Conference 2018 organized by Henley and Partners.   The officially website of Moldova citizenship by investment program was launched by Government: http://cbi.gov.md/.  CBI Agents can register for MCBI  program here   Launched in the second half of 2018, the MCBI…

he Government of Turkey has published amended citizenship regulations reducing the investment amounts to foster foreign direct investment in official gazette dated 18 Sep 2018.   According to the new amendments, foreigners buying real estate or invest in any of the following options will be eligible for turkish citizenship by investment   Buy real estate atleast $250,000 not sold…

Citizenship shop to launch in 2019 as the World’s first high street shop offering citizenship by investment schemes to high net worth families and serving luxury real estate market. Citizenshipshop.com was initially launched in Oct 2016, as an e-platform and website to shop for citizenships and golden visas of several countries online under one roof.…

Montenegro announced new citizen by investment scheme for acquiring Montenegrin citizenship by admission on the basis of a special investment programme. The scheme will open on Oct 1, 2018 and will run for three years offering investment citizenship to 2000 foreign investors. Invest EUR 250,000 in some of the development projects previously approved by the…

On April 11, 2018, the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda approved 3 major changes to the Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI).  The Limited Time Offer is effective May 1st and ends on October 31st, 2018. The Cabinet announced the following changes officially on May 14 to amend the CBI program with Limited Time Offer. 1. Real Estate…

The Vanuatu passport is ranked 37th powerful passport in the world according the latest Henley Passport Index 2018 released last week. According the the survey, vanuatu passport has visa free travel to 129 countries in the world. Vanuatu has a citizenship by investment program running in the south pacific. The country announced recently that the prices for the…

A new cryptocurrency ‘Citizenship coin’ has been launched for the investment migration industry. Citizenship coin (CTZ) is a P2P crypto digital currency backed by Euro for the Citizenship by investment industry (CBI) and will also support major crypto currencies Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum. Citizenship coin enables buying citizenship through the CBI programs operated by several…

Grenada becomes the latest country to slash prices for citizenship by investment program, after Antigua and St Kitts reduced the CBI investment amount following the 2017 Hurricane season. St Kitts introduced Hurricane relief fund for $150,000 and Antigua dramatically cut prices to $100,000 for the CBI program. From now on, the NTF contribution to Grenada…

Antigua and Barbuda offers citizenship to investors with minimum NDF contribution of $100,000 or property investment of $400,000. On Oct 17, 2017, Antigua and Barbuda announced officially the reduction of NDF contribution to $100,000, effective from Nov 2017 after being hit by Hurricane, making it cheaper for investors to apply for second passport. About 42% of CBI applications came from Chinese.…