The E-2 investor visa is the easiest route to open a business in the United States with a minimal investment. It is a non-immigrant investor visa with the fastest processing times. This visa is considered one of the best alternatives to EB-5 which has two or three years of waiting times. The backlog for China is far worse. The E-2 visa…
Montserrat, one of the fourteen british overseas territories in the Caribbean explored the idea of Economic citizenship scheme in 2015 to bring economic developments in to the country with only 4500 people living in the island. The country struggling to revive economy with GDP of only $63 million, one of the lowest in the world. In 1995, the dormant Soufrière Hills…
Bulgaria is a super interesting country to become a citizen by investment. Considering Bulgaria is a EU member state and likely to join schengen area in the future, things get more interesting in Bulgaria. So what you should know about Bulgaria citizenship by investment (BCBI)? Bulgaria has low corporate taxes, easy business formations, low cost of living and cheap property…
Explore the intricacies of extradition law and dual criminality of fugitives. Gain insights into the extradition treaties signed by CBI countries on mutual legal assistance.
Many wrongly assume diplomatic passports are given to important government officials automatically come with diplomatic immunity. This is simply NOT true. This is because of the limited understanding on the diplomatic rules and engagement. One must clearly understand that diplomatic passports do not come with automatic diplomatic immunity. Only certain class of diplomats receive this benefit. The diplomatic immunity is…
Naturalisation refers to the range of procedures to grant citizenship of a given country to a foreign national on the basis of the notion of the individual’s ‘genuine link’ or ‘genuine connection with the state. Naturalized citizens are also dual nationals but depends on the state if dual nationality is permitted or not. There are three types of naturalization that…
Slovakia has the most expensive citizenship by investment program (CIP) in the world. It is also one of the most discretely available scheme. This scheme is known as Major Investor scheme, where investors can be naturalized for economic investment, who are of special interest to Slovakia Slovakia joined the European Union 1 May 2004 and joined the Eurozone on 1…
Millions of traveler’s cross borders everyday, many of them are dual citizens. Traveling with one or more passports is quite common and thousands of people do it every day and there is nothing to be afraid of, as long you keep the following important points in mind (see below). When a person holds citizenship in two countries, they may have…
Weakest citizenships are the ones that can be easily revoked anytime. Citizenship legislation is quite complicated and varies from one country to another, many countries have enacted laws to strip citizenship involved in terrorism, fraud or bringing disrepute to country. For example British-born citizens can only be stripped of British citizenship if they have another nationality (dual nationals). Weakest Citizenships…
St Lucia publishes names of all economic citizens in every year in an Annual report compiled by Government. The report contains names, address and country of all new citizens who acquired passports under Citizenship by investment program (CIP). This annual report is available for public in the Parliament Library in Castries, St Lucia where anybody could visit the library and…
