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Turkey launched Citizenship by investment (CBI) scheme in 2016 for $500K, then the next year the scheme reduced investment conditions to just $250,000 to buy real estate. Since then the scheme became extremely popular among middle east investors. President Erdogan introduced this scheme to recover economy from crisis and revive property sector. The Turkish citizenship…

Montenegro Special citizenship by investment launched in 2018, is now ready for accepting applications. Interested candidates must apply through authorized agents. This scheme has a limited quota of 2000 applications and will permanently close on Dec 31, 2021 Montenegro is the cheapest CBI scheme in Europe. Here are some quick comparison with other citizenship investment…

Wealth is growing fast in India. India is a big market for golden visa schemes with a large of rich indian millionaires looking to immigrate, in search of new opportunities.  India saw the third highest outflow of wealthy individuals last year. Nearly 5,000 millionaires  (2%) of the total number of HNWIs in India, according to Global…

Dominica citizens who acquired their citizenship through citizenship by investment (CBI) scheme can vote in general elections. But there are conditions CBI citizens do not have automatic voting rights. CBI citizens who have not lived in dominica for atleast 1 year will not be able to vote. According to Electoral office of Dominica, the following are…

The Montenegro Government has now expanded citizenship by investment scheme from real estate to agriculture, fisheries and wood processing sectors. Previously only tourism and hotel development projects were eligible for special citizenship by admission scheme which is limited only to 2000 investors running for three years until 2022. The Montenegro Citizenship by investment program (MCBIP)…

Mauritius is one of the most beautiful islands in Africa. Globalisation and rapid development has made Mauritius the richest country in Africa, with an average wealth of $37,500 per inhabitant home to highest number of millionaires. Mauritius welcomes investment and embraces business. Globally recognised as a safe, stable and easy environment to conduct business, Mauritius…

EU citizenship is supplementary addition to national citizenship of the Union. EU citizenship was first introduced by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, and was extended by the Treaty of Amsterdam. Without a citizenship of the member state, EU citizenship would cease to exist. This also means European Union citizenship do not exist alone. Member State, having due…

Rich chinese are the biggest investors in Golden visa than than citizenship by investment (CBI) schemes, There are more important reasons for this. Dual citizenship not allowed for Chinese PRC nationals, hence they prefer residency. A significant number of chinese dont want to renounce citizenship by naturalizing abroad. Chinese prefer to invest in real estate…

Vanuatu made significant changes to the DSP citizenship program in 2019. Here are the most important changes done to Vanuatu citizenship by investment program On 24th April 2019, the Citizenship (Development Support Program) Regulations Order NO.33 of 2019 came into effect and apart from its extended definition section and detailed procedures entailed, a new threshold…

Greece offers  Financially Independent Visa (FIV) to third country nationals to who are economically independent or self employed. It is one of the cheapest alternative to Greek golden visa scheme, only a few foreigners know of, as it requires only minimum amount of money show in your bank account, instead of golden visa which have…