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New CBI Price comparison tool
New tool to compare the prices of citizenship by investment (CBI) programs and find the cheapest citizenship program in terms of prices. The automatic tool calculates the donation fee, real estate fee, due diligence fee, passport fee for single applicants, spouses and family members for 10 CBI countries. Antigua Dominica Grenada Malta Cyprus…
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Gold Passports have become Luxury status symbol of the Rich
Gold passports have become a modern day ultimate luxury status symbol replacing fast cars, yachts and expensive jewellery among the rich and wealthy. The Rich and wealthy are spending six figures for passports and citizenship. According to a recent Knight Frank 2019 survey, there are an estimated 71,300 UHNWI’s already hold a second passport. That is one…
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Portugal issued 400 golden visas for capital transfer
Portugal has issued 400 golden visas under the capital transfer option, according to the latest SEF statistics. The Capital transfer option was launched under ARI golden visa scheme in Dec 2017 expanding the scope of options outside the real estate investment. The capital transfer scheme is the cheapest option starts with 250,000 euro…
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Saint Lucia amends CBI Act
Saint Lucia has amended Citizenship By Investment Act 2019 allowing the possibility of citizenship holders include dependants within 5 years post granting citizenship. CIP Saint Lucia invites CBI applicants to invest in non-interest bearing government bonds USD 500,000. The bond investment is the cheapest compared to donation option. Financing possible for certain applicants,…
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Ireland tops Golden visa rankings with best citizenship in the World
Ireland has taken second spot in Best citizenships rankings for 2019. Ireland took second place in overall rankings of 190 countries and taken first spot among countries that offer golden visa schemes according to Best citizenships study. The study took into account over 15 metrics such as healthcare, economy, GDP, freedom, human development, strong…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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.…
