Category: Citizenship

European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is an online travel authorization requirement imposed on countries with EU visa waiver, set to commence from 2023. The ETIAS travel authorization will apply to all EU Member States that are part of the Schengen area, including those which do not yet fully apply the Schengen acquis, i.e.…

Canada launched of Express Entry in January 2015, since then welcome over 43,000 economic immigrants through the Express Entry system with skills needed for Canada.   Canada’s Express Entry system attract high-skilled foreign workers and former international students who want to live in Canada permanently and whose in-demand skills are needed by employers across the…

Portugal remains the most popular european golden visa schemes for property investment. According to latest statistics released by SEF, 126 golden visas have been granted for the month of November 28.   Of the 126 golden visas, 121 have been issued for real estate property Some 209 family members received residence permits in this month…

Citizenship by investment schemes boomed from just one in 1984 and in just 25 years, these schemes have proliferated to 13 countries as of 2019 and excess of $10 billion have poured into countries running it.

The Office of the Regulation for IIP (ORIIP) has made some recommendations for Malta IIP scheme based on Observations in the Fifth Annual Report on Malta Individual Investor Programme (IIP) published in Nov 2018 1. Staffing The Agency has always had to deal with an acute shortage of staff and various recommendations in this regard…

The Idea of buying citizenship for money, is not new, have existed since 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”.…

Montenegro first launched its economic citizenship scheme in August 2010 to attract wealthy investors.  The Citizenship Act in 2010 was amended to grant citizenship on individuals who invested at least €500,000 in the Adriatic country. Under the scheme citizenship would be granted to foreign investors for least €500,000 ($680,000) into the country, subject to approval.…

Samoa launched its citizenship by investment scheme under Citizenship Investment Act and its Regulations 2016.  This scheme is administered by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Samoa (MCIL). Applications must be submitted to the Citizenship Investment Committee. The Citizenship Investment scheme was officially launched on Tuesday 31st January 2017 Citizenship by Investment is the…

San Marino is the third smallest country in Europe, after Vatican City and Monaco with a population of 33,000 and approximately 5000 foreign residents. It is also the fifth smallest country in the world. San Marino is an enclaved micro-state surrounded by Italy, situated on the Italian Peninsula on the northeastern side of the Apennine…

The Annual Report of Immigrant Visa Applicants  as of November 1, 2018  show the a total of 39,000 (87% are chinese) are on  EB-5  waiting list. Hong Kong and South Korea have the lowest waiting. Over 500 applications from India and 1500 from Vietnam also on waiting list.