Category: Citizenship

European countries have the best and powerful passports in the world in terms of travel freedom, respect, recognition, visa free travel and openness towards dual citizenship.

Moldova and Montenegro announced their new citizenship by investment schemes in 2018 both countries are expected to receive excess of 1 billion euros through the CBI schemes . Moldova and Montenegro CBI programs should not be confused with each other. The main difference between the two CBI schemes are.. Montenegro is a limited citizenship scheme…

The concept of buying citizenship for cash have existed in ancient times. Roughly two thousand years ago , Roman citizenship was sold to rich and wealthy for money. In the book of Acts, Paul has a discussion with a Roman Centurion who claims he bought his citizenship “for a lot of money”.   Roman citizenship gave…

Citizenship by investment programs (CIP) offer a fast track citizenship to foreign investors against economic contribution to the Government, such as buying a property or one time contribution to the Government fund. All applicants and their family members had to pay the due diligence fee and pass the background vetting checks. The first citizenship by…

A number of HNW investors have brought citizenship by investment (CBI) passports without properly evaluating the consequences of dual citizenship. While most CBI countries do not publish the names of those who acquired citizenship (except Malta), CBI citizens have some sort of privacy. Malta publishes names of IIP citizens in gazette every year and this…

Montenegro is set to receive approximately some €1 billion euros  FDI from the newly launched citizenship by investment program. Some 6000 passports to be issued for 2000 families during the period of three years until 2021.

The Montenegro Government announced Special citizenship acquisition program (SCAP) through investment at a cabinet session on Nov 22, 2018. This citizenship scheme is special because it will only run for three years until 2021 and limited to 2000 applications to foreigners. The new citizenship by investment scheme was published in Official Gazette of Montenegro 34/10, 40/16…

Cambodia has super interesting citizenship by investment scheme in Asia.  Cambodia offers Khmer citizenship to foreign investors who donate or make an active investment in Cambodia. The Cambodian CBI program has been running for a number of years only relatively few investors  know about this as the scheme is not widely promoted. Infact, it is…

USCIS has dramatically cut the pending I-526 petitions for chinese which declined by more than half (65%) compared to previous year 2017. Pending petitions doubled for South Korea.

Malta has refused on average one of five applications filed under the citizenship by investment program (IIP). The overall refusal rate of all applications submitted from the start of the scheme in 2014 to 2018 stands at 19.5% according to ORIIP report