Almost Half of the world countries have worst passports, severely restricting mobility and travel freedom for its citizens. Afghanistan and Iraq passports are the worst passports in the World as of 2019, according to Henley passport rankings, For example chinese passport has only limited travel freedom to only 74 countries, while russia passport has access to 119 nations as of…
People in India, very often confuse between holding dual citizenships with Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) introduced by the the Govt of India. The Indian constitution does not allow dual citizenship or simultaneously holding two passports of different countries. The Indian Citizenship Act, 1955, does not allow dual citizenship. Holding Indian passport/acquiring Indian passport/travelling on Indian passport after acquisition of foreign…
We at Best Citizenships (BC) did a quick survey on passports. Although there are many passport ranking indexes solely rank on visa free travel and other factors, it does not take into account of rarity. We really like passports that are exclusive, rare and very respected ones and most importantly from a peaceful country. Many High-net-worth (HNW) persons prefer such…
‘Golden visas’ usually refer to specific ‘policies developed by countries seeking to attract wealthy people to become residents or citizens’.1 Different official terminologies exist to designate these types of policies: economic citizenship programmes (ECPs), immigrant investor programmes (IIPs). Golden visa schemes designed to attract foreign investment are found across the globe and in almost every country. Some of these schemes…
Moldova has opened a new CBI program granting citizenship to foreign investors. The scheme opened in July 2018 with Henley and Partners awarded the tender, to design, develop and implement the Moldova CBI program. Moldova CBI program is one of the cheapest citizenship by investment schemes in Eastern Europe. Launched in the second half of 2018, the MCBI program was…
Campione d’Italia ia small muncipality town in the Lombard region of Italy. It is conveniently tucked between taly and Switzerland along the Lugano lake occupying an enclave with swiss canton Ticino. It takes about 15 min drive from Lugano and about an hour drive from Milan (Italy) to reach campione. The town has a small casino – casino campione –…
