Congress created the EB-5 program in 1990’s to bring investments in the country in exchange for Green card (permanent residence). This program is otherwise known as Employment based fifth preference program. The EB-5 program has 10,000 visa annual quotas (including family members) requiring USD 500,000 invested in the country. It was only in Nov 21, 2019, the US government decided…
It is super easy to apply for citizenship by investment programs. All you have to do is keep some documents ready to quickly skip through the queues and get your approval super fast. This will significantly cut down your waiting time for passport. Preparing for the paper work consumes the most time. The important thing here is all the documents…
Recent years have seen a growing trend in popularity of Golden visa schemes. Golden visa programs are just residence programs in exchange for investments in real estate, business or gilts issued by governments. There are several commonly used terms for golden visa programs – Immigrant investor schemes, Investor residence, Foreign investor visas etc. Each country picks its own term under…
The Digital Nomad working style is a new trend in Covid-19 world. a growing number of countries are pushing forward to create the option of Digital Nomad Visa to attract remote workers. These remote workers, or “digital nomads” prefer to live and work from anywhere in the world in ‘open offices’ such as sunny beaches, forests, sailing yachts in tandem…
The Commonwwealth of Dominica offers a number of routes to acquire citizenship, not just through investments. Many only offer you or talk about CBI but there are more cheaper ways, if you know how to do. It is quite understandable, not everybody has $100K to invest in Dominica. The cheapest routes are also longest routes to become a citizen of…
Do you know Portugal offers special visas to foreigners who are freelancers, self employed and retirees?. These visas are unknown to many people and these are pretty low cost visas. Portugal wants to attract talent, innovative not just always rich people who buy real estate through golden visa program. Take a look at the following residency visas to immigrate to…
The Government of Cyprus has officially suspended the citizenship by investment scheme effective from Nov 1, 2020 in its current form. No new applications will be accepted after this date. The Council of Ministers approved the proposal of the Ministers of Finance and Interior for the abolition of this investment program from 1/11/20. The proposal was based on the longstanding…
The Government Malta launched Malta Residency Visa Program (MRVP) in 2015 to attract highly qualified individuals and families from third countries offering them residency to settle in Malta. Approved applicants after thorough background checks are entitled to the right to reside, settle or stay indefinitely in Malta together with one’s registered dependants. MRVP is not a popular program mainly due…
The Greek parliament has approved a new bill requiring all foreigners to take test on greek language, history and culture to acquire Greek nationality. The first citizenship exam will be held from May 2021. Naturalization The naturalisation process is published by the Ministry of Interior and it costs about 550 euro filing fee. Golden visa holders do not have preferential…
Vanuatu has the fastest citizenship by investment program in the World. The Government has significantly reduced the processing times for citizenship investors. If all the application and documentation is intact, the Government Letter of approval for citizenship is issued within 2-3 weeks and the passport takes another 2 weeks after approval letter. All in the whole process from the start…
