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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.…

Malta and Cyprus are the only two countries in Europe running official citizenship by investment programs. According to the new 2018 Henley passport index, Malta ranks first and Cyprus ranks second, followed by Caribbean countries. Currently only about 8 countries in the world run official CBI programs. CBI Passport Visa free countries  Rank Malta 169…

UK house prices grew by 4.5% in the year to October 2017, experiencing a 0.3 percentage point decrease from the previous month, according to HM Land Registry Data The average price of a property in the UK was £223,807, The slowest annual growth was in London at 2.1%, down from 2.9% in September 2017. This is the 11th…

Germany secures the top spot in the 2018 Henley Passport Index, while the UK, China, Russia, and the UAE all improve their ranking year-on-year Germany holds on to 1st place on the Henley Passport Index (henleypassportindex.com) for the fifth year running, with its citizens enjoying visa-free access to 177 countries in total, up from 176 countries in 2017.  …

The State Secretariat for Migration has published new migration statistics of foreigner population in Switzerland. Here are some interesting statistics. As of 2016, there are  2,029,527 legally resident foreigners in Switzerland, 69% were EU/EFTA nationals.  Italians are Switzerland’s largest foreign community, followed by Germans and Portuguese. In 2015, 41,587 persons were granted Swiss citizenship either through the Standard Naturalisation (32 155) Facilitated…

The US State Department Report of the Visa Office 2016 has been updated with Table V (Part 3), which gives a breakdown of all EB visas issued by country in fiscal year 2016. A total of 159 Indians applied for the popular EB-5 program to obtain US green cards in 2016, compared over 7000 investors from China. 32…

The Government of St Kitts and Nevis, announced the Hurricane Relief Fund in Sep 2017, as a new contribution option to obtain St Kitts and Nevis Citizenship under the citizenship by investment scheme. The Citizenship by Investment Unit has launched the Hurricane Relief Fund (HRF) Investment Contribution to assist the Government with repairsto publicinfrastruc- tureand private property…

2017 is the year that significant changes happened to the Caribbean citizenship by investment programs (CBI) making it more cheaper to buy a citizenship. Commonwealth of Dominica USD 100,000 EDF investment and USD 200,000 real estate investment remains the same. Processing fees were reduced by 50% for the those opting for the Real Estate option…