What is happening with Golden visas and Citizenship by investment in 2020?. CBI schemes offer fast track passports for investments, while golden visas offer residency for investments. The two sectors has created a new investment immigration industry worth $1 billion market annually in Americas, Caribbean and Europe. Passports have become a new safe haven asset class offering asset protection for…
A New Asset class (“Passports”) has been created by citizenship by investment programs as a safe haven investment. A Second Passport is a must in every investment portfolio of wealthy and high-net-worth families for the 21st century. A second passport can be viewed as the modern day life insurance policy for your family, because you invest in a passport today,…
Citizenship by investment (CBI) schemes offer a new life and hope to stateless persons and their families to enjoy equal rights and opportunities with freedom of movement. A Stateless person is someone who does not have the nationality of any country. The 1954 UN Convention It establishes the legal definition of a stateless person as someone who is “not recognized as a…
St Kitts and Nevis remains one of the strongest and powerful passports from the Caribbean. The St Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Program (SKNCIP) remains one of the oldest in the world running since 1984. So how to get St Kitts and Nevis passport in 45 days through citizenship by investment? Our answer is a YES for clients who…
Visa waivers are very important to consider when applying for citizenship by investment programs. Picking the right passport that suit your travel plan is probably the most important decision when you apply for citizenship by investment programs. For example you are frequently traveling to South Africa or have close ties with that country, you probably want to apply for a…
The Coronavirus within months of its discovery has been causing unprecedented crisis across many countries, affecting many businesses and services, causing a slowdown and CBI/Golden visa industry is not an exception. Several countries have already imposed travel restrictions closing borders citing health crisis. Any business or services which has human to human interaction will likely to face a slowdown because…
How do you compare the passport costs versus the visa waiver benefits offered by citizenship by investment programs? Here is how! First we plotted a graph of 14 CBI passports comparing visa free countries on x-axis and the price of passport on Y axis in a two dimensional scatter graph. As you can visualize the graph, what the graph shows…
The Moldova Government has suspended accepting applications for citizenship by investment program as of July 19th. Since then the Government has extended the moratorium on the CBI scheme until Feb 20, 2020. This week the Government announced the third extension on moratorium will continue until Sep 2020 until final decision is made on the fate of the scheme. No new…
These are the visa requirements for Turkey for the passport holders from Citizenship by investment (CBI) program. Please note only St Kitts and Montenegro are the two CBI countries that have visa free travel to Turkey. All other countries require a eVisa to enter Turkey. Antigua and Barbuda – Ordinary passport holders can obtain three month-multiple entry e-Visas via the website…
Congress created the EB-5 program in 1990’s to bring investments in the country in exchange for Greencard (permanent residence). This program is otherwise known as Employment based fifth preference program. The EB-5 program has 10,000 visa annual quotas (including family members) requiring USD 500,000 invested in the country. It was only in Nov 21, 2019, the US government decided to…
