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…
If you are interesting buying a second passport through citizenship by investment schemes, we have some important advice for you. As most of the countries have tightened immigration and border controls, it doesn’t makes sense buying a passport from a country and you dont know where the country on the map. Sometimes border authorities can ask this question to make…
Discover the Importance Wealth Tax for high net worth persons, especially when considering citizenship and residence planning abroad. We unveil list of countries levy wealth tax.
Ireland is a ‘hidden gem’ in Europe, one of the exciting countries in the world to live, work, study and do business. It is easy to miss out on Ireland, perhaps often overlooked by many golden visa investors. It is also a reason why Irish golden visa (IGV) scheme is not very popular like Portugal or Greece. You may not…
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…
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…
St Kitts and Nevis remains the eight smallest country in the world. It is also smallest country in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere with a small population of 55,000. Yet this small country remains the birthplace for citizenship by investment. When the sugar industry collapsed in 2005 and hurricanes battering every year, they country had no other option but…
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…
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…
Apostille and Legalisation are two important document certifications you should know about. Without either of these, any document you present abroad, will simply be invalid and turned down. Whether you get apostille or legalisation depends on the country the documents originate and the originating country is a party and non-party to Hague convention. Take a look below Apostille An Apostille…