Malaysia’s My Second Home (MM2H) is one of the most popular golden visa scheme in Asia. The scheme offers foreigners immediate long term 10 year residence status equivalent to permanent residence status in Malaysia for a low investment. Malaysia is an important trade hub in south east asia attracts significant number of investors from China and other asian countries.…
Hungary is a landlocked country in eastern europe, and its capital Budapest the 8th most visited country in Europe. Hungary participates in the schengen area, but does not participate in the Euro area. The Hungarian Residency bond program , popularly known as golden visa scheme was launched in 1 January 2013 against the purchase of national government bonds and was…
Portugal has further simplified its golden visa scheme making it faster to renew residence permits. From now on, foreign investors applying for residence permit extensions including golden visa holders, dont need to apply for criminal record certificates, it is done electronically by SEF requesting criminal record certificates, only the consent of applicant required. Further, Brazilian citizens,submitting applications for a Residence…
Anguilla officially opened golden visa scheme in 2019, offering immediate permanent residency to foreign investors in the british caribbean island with a path to British overseas territory (BOT) citizenship. The scheme was officially known as Anguilla Residence by Investment Scheme (ARBI). Anguilla’s RBI scheme is government’s interest in providing an ‘elevated’ status to visitors who make significant financial investments into the…
We have compiled passport fees from around the world in 2019 for over 180 countries. This fee is for issuing biometric / e-passports / machine readable passports. As of mid 2018, more than 150 countries have started issuing e-passports. Here is a quick summary of passport fee and costs applicable to citizens. Syria, Chad, Lebanon and Turkey have very high…
Citizenship by investment schemes offers a perfect opportunity to become a world citizen, where the world opens up, giving full freedom of movement for you and all family members. These paid citizenship schemes offer instant passports within 1-2 months, in exchange for investments. You can travel visa free to over 100+ countries including Europe, UK/Ireland, Russia, China etc, instead of…
Austria is one of the best and exciting countries to live, work, study and do business in Europe. Austria is ranked as the fourth peaceful country in the world in Global peace index 2019, and the austrian capital Vienna named the most livable city in the world for the second year running.
Russia is the biggest land mass countries in the world with abundant natural resources including vast oil and gas reserves, makes it attractive for foreign direct investment. Russia has consumer market of over 140 million people, vast natural resources, a highly educated workforce, and technologically advanced research and production capabilities. Russia although does not have an official citizenship for investment scheme,…
Housing prices rose by 4.0% in both the euro area and the EU. According to Eurostat, the highest annual increases in house prices in the first quarter of 2019 were recorded in Hungary (+11.3%), Czechia (+9.4%) and Portugal (+9.2%), while prices fell in Italy (-0.8%). Turkey and Montenegro have citizenship by investment schemes with the cheapest prevailing property prices, making it…
We have compiled the data for comparing citizenship by investment (CBI/CIP) schemes. This data consists of 30 very important factors to rank best citizenship by investment scheme to apply. The chart gives you in-depth knowledge into the countries running CBI schemes and you will have a chance to decide which country is the best for you taking into account education,…