The Coronavirus (Covid-19) has brought an unprecedented crisis to the citizenship and residence by investment industry. As a part of preventive measures, golden visa schemes in Europe have been mostly suspended, On March 11, 2020, WHO announced COVID-19 as a Global pandemic, since then various countries have imposed border lockdowns and grounding all flights. Tourism and travel has been hit…
Antigua Government has announced important changes to Antigua Barbuda Citizenship by Investment Program (ABCIP) for 2020. The new changes aimed at making the passport program attractive to clients. Antigua currently remains the cheapest passport program for families. The following important changes is announced by Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) which is effective from April 1, 2020 1. Donation route become slightly…
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,…
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 120 days through citizenship by investment? Effective from July 2023, For clients who are…
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…
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. Please see What happened to Moldova CBI? This week the Government announced the third extension on moratorium will continue until Sep 2020 until final decision is made on…
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…
CBI citizens who acquired passports through citizenship by investment (Cbi) programs can seek consular protection and assistance from missions available abroad during emergency when you need help! We have compiled list of embassies and consulates of CBI countries available abroad. It is very important to understand the difference between embassy and consulate. Embassies deal with only foreign relations while consulates…
Discover the limitations of dual citizenship. A state may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a state whose nationality such person also possesses.
