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 nationality (dual nationals). Weakest Citizenships…
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 could visit the library and…
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 five star hotels Marriott Six…
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 with a big economy compared…
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 african island. Cape Verde is…
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 hotels through the following options…
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 This decision was made after…
Malta extended the stamp duty exemption for property buyers which was announced during Budget 2020. This makes it attractive for foreign property buyers in Malta through Malta Residence and Citizenship schemes First Time Buyers The stamp duty exemption for first-time buyers has been extended once again and the exemption shall now apply to the first €175,000 (currently €150,000) of the…
2017 turns out to be one of the most important year for the CBI industry. The prices of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs dropped in 2017 almost by half, after the Caribbean hit by Hurricanes in a desperate need for passport money to recover from hurricane damages. This only made it cheaper to citizenship investors to buy a citizenship under…
Antigua will not increase its prices for the citizenship by investment program (CIP) after Oct 31, 2019. As per to the Oct 14 announcement made by Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) of Antigua in a notice sent to agents, the cabinet removed the end date for Limited Time Offer (LTO) which offered discount by 50% for NDF donation and real…
