Category: Citizenship

  • Antigua adds UWI Fund for Citizenship

    Antigua adds UWI Fund for Citizenship

    Antigua has officially launched University of West Indies (UWI) fund in May 2020 as an additional option for citizenship by investment program. This UWI investment route ($150,000 inclusive of $30k processing fees) is cheaper for large families compared to the NDF option offers family citizenship for just $100,000 for four. Only families of six or more…

  • Saint Lucia cuts prices for families

    Saint Lucia cuts prices for families

    Saint Lucia has made important changes to the pricing model  under Citizenship by Investment (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 to make the CIP attractive for investors midst the pandemic. New Covid-19 bond investment also introduced as Limited Time Offer (LTO) until the end of 2020 From now on prices were cut for families making it cheaper and…

  • What are Active and Passive Golden Visa investments?

    What are Active and Passive Golden Visa investments?

    Active investments such as investing in business puts capital at risk, brings economic benefit creating jobs. Passive investments are usually long term sleeping investments where the capital is safe. (eg. Real estate, Govt bonds)

  • Can Malta golden visa lead to citizenship?

    Can Malta golden visa lead to citizenship?

    The Maltese golden visa program remains the cheapest and popular golden visa scheme in Europe’s schengen area. The scheme offers permanent residence rights to investors buying or financing maltese government bonds and stocks listed in stock exchange. A number of clients have asked us whether golden visa in Malta lead to citizenship. The answer is…

  • UAE Golden Visa

    UAE Golden Visa

    The United Arab Emirates has become a hotspot for golden visa investments in recent years due to its prime real estate market, international flight connections to anywhere in the world and flexible visa regime attracting a huge number of international investors. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the main regions receiving foreign direct investments. In 2019,…

  • What is a Golden Visa?

    What is a Golden Visa?

    Golden Visa programs are residence by investment schemes that offer instant permanent residency in exchange for investments. The investments could be active or passive in real estate, business capital, job creation and purchase of interest free government debts (bonds, stocks, securities). The short form for Golden Visa is “GV” Portugal first invented the name “Golden…

  • Important tips for passport investors

    Important tips for passport investors

    We give some important tips for all those interested in acquiring a passport through citizenship by investment (Cbi) programs. These are so important and we recommend every passport buyer interested to carefully read and digest the below information before contacting us. Having a basic knowledge in the passport subject will help you make the right…

  • How do i trust CBI passport programs?

    How do i trust CBI passport programs?

    A number of HNW investor clients have contacted us questioning how to trust citizenship by investment programs that offer fast track passports for investment. To us they have little or no idea about CBI and they did not do enough homework from their side. A simple google search with the key world citizenship by investment…

  • ‘CBI’ is Citizenship By Investment

    ‘CBI’ is Citizenship By Investment

    ‘CBI’ is a short form or abbreviation for Citizenship by investment. This short form ‘CBI’ is widely and commonly used across by many lawyers, immigration firms, governments, real estate developers and other firms in the investment immigration industry offering citizenship and residence schemes. You will find this acronym frequently  in websites, blogs, news and social…

  • Commonly used Abbreviations

    Commonly used Abbreviations

    These are the most commonly used abbreviations (short forms) frequently used to communicate in the immigration and citizenship matters. It is very important to understand these terms to avoid any confusion during any communication. Acronyms / Abbreviations CBI – Citizenship  By Investment CIP – Citizenship by Investment Program CBI/CIP – Citizenship by investment (program) RBI…