Category: Citizenship

The Malta Residence and Visa Programme (MRVP) provides for the acquisition of Maltese residency by investment. The MRVP was established in 2015 by the Malta Residence and Visa Programme Regulations (LN 288/2015) – subsidiary legislation issued under the Immigration Act. MRVP targets applicants interested foreign investors who seek residence rights and not citizenship. These commonly come…

Switzerland is one of the world’s most attractive countries to live in. Historically, the nation has maintained political neutrality since 1515, a policy that has fostered a highly stable socio-economic environment. The combination of the country’s rich cultural heritage and liberal social attitudes has given rise to one of the most independent and well-organized societies…

Greece offers a ten year Golden visa residence permit for strategic investment in Greece for up to ten investors starting from €250,000.  The permits issued is same as €250,000 property investment are issued for five years maximum in Greece but the difference is ten years. While most are aware of only property investment, investment activity…

Do you want citizenship or residency? Cyprus and United Kingdom have stiff competition for attracting Ultra High Net Worth individuals who can invest 2 million pounds/euro in these countries.   Cyprus requires 2 million in euros while United Kingdom requires 2 million  pounds (2.3 mill euro).   The one difference is Cyprus offers full EU…

Malta takes first sport in CBI passport rankings 2019. Our model takes into account over 26 factors into our model from pricing to economic indicators of each country to rank a CBI passport out of maximum 150 points.

The Greek golden visa scheme has become super-attractive to property investors and has become the best golden visa scheme in Europe.

UK has imposed new good character requirement for citizenship applications launched on or after Jan 14, 2019. All citizenship decisions will be made based on this new policy guidance. The new policy also applies  to children applications for registration and naturalisation from those who are aged 10 or over at the time the application is…

New changes have been introduced to the Golden visa schemes of Portugal and Greece with amendments to respective golden visa laws in 2019. Greece The Greek Government has put forward amendments to tighten the golden visa program regulations against abuse and money laundering. Under the new amendments put forward in the Hellenic parliament,  the new…

The Saint Lucia passport is the biggest climber by two places in the Caribbean  in the 2019 Henley passport rankings with visa free travel to 145 visa free destinations in the world. St Lucia passport is the  31st powerful passport in the world The Saint Lucia passport also ranks 7th best CBI passport among citizenship by…

The Italian passport is ranked as fourth best and powerful in the world, in the newly released Henley passport rankings in 2019.  The Italian passport ranks above Portugal, Spain and UK passports in the passport rankings.     Italian citizens enjoy freedom of movement in EU member states, United Kingdom and Ireland with full citizenship…