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Golden visa programs in Europe are essentially permanent residency programs against an investment such as in real estate, business enterprises or buying bonds or share capital.  Buying a property is a straight forward process to get a golden visa. Instant citizenship is not possible through golden visas. There are few big advantages which golden visa…

Citizenship by investment programs (CIP) programs offer immediate citizenship and passport to foreign investors. The demand for citizenship-by-investment passport programs is of historic high in 2019. It is possible to get a  fast track citizenship within 3 -4 months, waiving naturalisation requirements such as residency, paying taxes language requirement etc. A second passport is a great way…

The market for investment citizenship programs have exploded since couple of years. St Kitts and Nevis has the oldest investment passport program, while Dominica and St Lucia are big players in the passport market.  Malta and Cyprus are big players in European passport market. The investment inflows in these countries run in billions resulting from…

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…