Author: Best Citizenships

Many of you might be aware Portugal offers golden visa for 350,000€ in real estate, which remains the most popular real estate route, only few heard about Government bond option of portuguese golden visa. Portugal does offer golden visa for buying government debt under the capital transfer option  requires equal to or above €1m euros.…

In Ireland, a minor needs a re-entry visa to leave Ireland for a short period (usually up to 90 days) and then return again with their parents (eg. holidays, home visit).   Minors with IRP or GNIB residence cards do not require re-entry visas.   As a part of new changes in line with EU…

These are the costs involved for citizenship applications in the these thirty five countries. The UK and Switzerland has the most expensive fee for citizenship applications, whereas France and Spain have the lowest costs associated with citizenship / naturalization applications. Some countries also have expensive passport fee. Citizenship leads to passport. 1. United Kingdom Naturalisation…

Switzerland requires atleast 12 years of residence to naturalize for citizenship. The residence requirements also depend on the canton. With new rules implemented from Jan 2018, anyone who has lived in Switzerland for ten years and has a residence permit (C permit) can apply to the municipality or canton for an application for ordinary naturalization. The…

Antigua and Barbuda CIU has announced the special citizenship offer of 50% discount which is extended permanently from 2018. There is also a real estate discount. There is a Limited Time Offer (LTO) applied to the NDF and Real Estate options as follows: 1. National Development Fund (NDF) The threshold for the National Development Fund…

France is the most popular destination for chinese according to the schengen visa statistics.   Chinese received 2.8 million schengen visas in 2018 with increase of 11% compared to previous year. French consulates in china granting over 800,000 visas to chinese citizens,     Popular  schengen countries for Chinese France Italy Germany Least popular Schengen…

Cayman islands is a British overseas territory (BOT) with world class health care, and education, under British law and regulations. Cayman islands offer golden visa to HNW wealthy investors in the form of residence certificates. These residence certificate or permanent residence certificates issued to HNW investors and their families who can invest $1 million or more…

We have developed a  Best Citizenships Index (BCI) for 2019 which answers which country has the best citizenship in the world. Our PBS scoring model that takes into account 18 key metrics and mathematically scores to rank a citizenship 190 countries. We normalized all data, and fed it into our model for scores and rankings. These important…

Explore our comprehensive comparison of countries and their varying timelines and waiting times for acquiring citizenship by marriage.