Author: Best Citizenships

The St Lucia citizenship by investment program (CIP) recently has gained more popularity with americans acquiring passports under the investment scheme. Currently St Lucia requires only $100,000 donation to Government fund or buy a real estate for $300,000 to qualify for citizenship US citizens have also show increased interest in St Lucia since the launch…

Austria is the most peaceful countries to live, work, study and do business. The country has stable government, political situation, excellent healthcare, education, with vienna becoming an international financial centre. Recently Vienna has been rated as the most livable city in the world. Why Austria? Austria is the fourth richest country in the EU Excellent…

Greece has amended golden visa scheme to include more investment options such as Government bonds, shares, and bank deposits for a minimum of €400,000. The amendments expands the number of options under the scope of the golden visas, diversifying from real estate, which remains the same at €250,000 The investment options were approved by the…

Weakest citizenships are the ones that can be easily revoked anytime. Citizenship legislation is quite complicated and varies from one country to another, many countries have enacted laws to strip citizenship involved in terrorism, fraud or bringing disrepute to country. For example British-born citizens can only be stripped of British citizenship if they have another…

St Lucia publishes names of all economic citizens in every year in an Annual report compiled by Government.  The report contains names, address and country of all new citizens who acquired passports under Citizenship by investment program (CIP). This annual report is available for public in the Parliament Library in Castries, St Lucia where anybody…

Citizenship by investment (CBI) schemes offer an excellent opportunity to invest in 5 star hotels and resorts for a passport. You can buy a hotel share in luxury hotels and resorts in Caribbean and Europe. Some of these hotels are already in construction and others are completed. The following are some of the well known…

The Two Caribbean countries Commonwealth of Dominica and Dominican republic are often confused when it comes to citizenship. Out of these countries, only Dominica has official citizenship by investment scheme, while Dominican Republic does not have one. You will find the two countries clearly in the map above. Dominican Republic (DR) is a huge country…

Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde) is located in the west of African continent with a population of half a million with a $4.3bn GDP. The Cape Verde archipelago was discovered in 1460 when Portuguese explorers discovered and colonized the islands, establishing the first European settlement.  Today Portuguese is still used as official language in the…

Hotel investments has become an exciting new trend in the citizenship by investment (CBI) industry.  With rising tourism and soaring commercial property prices hotels are viewed as care free investment vehicles by foreign investors who seek a passport, that comes as additional perk that comes with investing hotel. How it works? You can invest in…

Greek Government has now approved using POS transactions using credit or debit card payments to pay for real estate under Golden visa scheme. The POS transactions were suspended before but the new government in Greece is re-enabling plastic card payments in an effort to push Greece towards digital economy and attracting FDI in the country…