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Which Countries give Citizenship by Investment without visiting?

Which Countries give Citizenship by Investment without visiting?

Covid and lockdowns has made impossible for us to travel and visit countries to acquire citizenship and passports. Covid has accelerated the popularity of citizenship by investment schemes (CBI) that require any sort of personal visits. Covid has opened up possibility of digital citizenships which can be obtained from your home. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars taking…

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FATF blacklist countries

FATF blacklist countries

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog and policy making body, in which more than 200 countries and jurisdictions are members. FATF High-risk jurisdictions have significant strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of proliferation. If a country is in FATF blacklist, international banks may refuse…

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Cryptocurrency Due Diligence

Cryptocurrency Due Diligence

There are over 1600 crypto coins in the market and accepting cryptocurrencies carry high risks. The most popular cryptocurrencies in the world are  Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin It is impossible to ignore this new 21st century digital asset, as cryptocurrencies have resisted being shutdown by powerful Governments and also completely remained unaffected during Covid-19 spearheading digital technologies into the…

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How to get Vanuatu Passport in 30 days?

How to get Vanuatu Passport in 30 days?

Vanuatu has a super fast CBI program in the Pacific. The Vanuatu Development Support Program have received several accolades for being fastest in the world for speed of processing. The Vanuatu CBI is a hidden gem when it comes to citizenship for investments. Vanuatu Govt processes applications three times faster than the Caribbean CIPs.  It only takes 30 days for a client to…

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What makes CBI online platforms so popular?

What makes CBI online platforms so popular?

Covid has accelerated the demand for CBI online platforms.  CBI online platforms have soared in popularity in recent years. Best citizenships is the first online platform launched in 2011 for citizenship by investment and golden visa programs. CBI programs only started to gain popularity around 2010, at that time only St Kitts and Dominica were around. These programs were not popular…

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