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  • Canada New Brunswick entrepreneur scheme

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    Canada New Brunswick entrepreneur scheme

    The New Brunswick province of Canada, offers a new golden visa scheme known  New Brunswick entrepreneur program to international investors.   This scheme requires CAD 250,000 investment in hotels, healthcare, hotels creating new jobs for the province.   Currently New Brunswick has the cheapest immigrant investor program for Canada, as Quebec in 2019 QIIP reforms increased…

  • What is Corporate Citizenship by Investment?

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    What is Corporate Citizenship by Investment?

    The Corporate Citizenship by investment (CCBI)  is a new concept for business investors, only became popular after late 2010.   The whole idea is applying investment model  to acquire a citizenship through corporate investment. The investment must create jobs, sustainable development and economic growth in the country.   Corporate investors investing in new hotels, resorts…

  • Grenada has made significant changes to CBI program

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    Grenada has made significant changes to CBI program

    Grenada has made significant changes to its citizenship-by-investment (CBI) program from 1 April 2019.   This makes Grenada’s minimum price point for real estate investment to $220,000 much more competitive with neighboring jurisdictions, although it is only applicable in cases where applicants co-invest in a unit or property. These significant enhancements to the Grenada Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI)…

  • New UK investor visa rules from 29 March 2019

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    New UK investor visa rules from 29 March 2019

    The UK Home Office announced significant changes to the UK Immigration Rules which include updates to both Tier 1 Entrepreneur and Tier 1 Investor visa categories.   The new rules come into effect on 29 March 2019.   The Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) and Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) categories are being replaced by the new Start-Up…

  • Best Golden Visa Rankings 2019

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    Best Golden Visa Rankings 2019

    The Golden visa schemes today runs in over 20 countries worldwide with US and Canada running the oldest in the world since 1990’s leading from the front.   The golden visa attract some $10 billion annually   We designed a Points based scoring (PBS) model to rank golden visa schemes evaluating 10 most important factors.…

  • Top 10 countries for HNWIs wealth inflows in 2017

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    Top 10 countries for HNWIs wealth inflows in 2017

      Global wealth migration is accelerating. Approximately 95,000 millionaires (HNWIs) migrated in 2017, compared to 82,000 in 2016 and 64,000 in 2015.     The following countries experienced the biggest wealth inflows in 2017.     2017 HNWI inflows Australia 10000 USA 9000 Canada 5000 UAE 5000 Caribbean 3000 Israel 2000 Switzerland 2000 New Zealand…

  • Cyprus Citizenship by Investment increase by €150,000

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    Cyprus Citizenship by Investment increase by €150,000

    Cyprus citizenship by investment to become more expensive as the the government has approved of new changes to the citizenship by investment scheme   The new CIP changes expected to come into effect on May 15, 2019   Price increase Applicants have to donate €150,000 to Cyprus development, along with the €2 million euro minimum investment requirement.…

  • Bulgaria second best citizenship by investment

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    Bulgaria second best citizenship by investment

    Bulgaria secured second place in citizenship by investment CBI passport rankings for 2019. The report takes into account 25 important factors such as safety, economy, due diligence, Human development index, pricing and passport power.     This comes at a time when Bulgaria justice ministry recently announced plans closing of citizenship and golden visa scheme…

  • Malta has the most transparent citizenship by investment scheme

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    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 full details on applications received, due diligence and approved citizenship applications to different nationalities. Malta also publishes names of IIP citizens in gazette every year to public.   In…

  • Top 10 countries in CBI passport rankings 2019

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    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, many are not exhaustive, or rely on visa free access to rank Citizenship By Investment (CBI) passports.   The ranking model takes into account over 25 factors into our model from…