Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan
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Irish Immigrant Investor scheme requires €1,000,000 investment
The Irish Immigrant Investor Programme was established by the Irish Government in 2012 to stimulate productive investment in Ireland. Irish Immigrant Investor Programme helps non-EU nationals and their families who commit to an approved investment in Ireland acquiring secure residency status in Ireland. Residency status issued for initial 3 years, and then renewed every 5…
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Malta IIP citizenship scheme open to EU/EEA citizens
EU/EEA citizens and their family members can apply for Maltese citizenship under the Individual Investor Programme (IIP). This is a quick solution for wealthy EU citizens to acquire second citizenship in Malta within 12-15 months, rather than naturalizing (takes 6 years of living). No requirement to live or take up residency in Malta for 12…
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How to solve overlapped 8 puzzle?
The ‘Overlapped-8‘ brain teaser is a pretty singular puzzle game. It consists of two layers, each having a classical sliding block pieces (SBP) puzzle. Objective? It is also simple: to move pieces around until colors of pieces match at the same position on both layers. Solving it…let’s see how! The mechanics is simple: each layer…
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10 Passport by investment schemes to investors
Passport shopping (aka Citizenship shopping) is a $10 billion dollar industry. Passport programs run by Governments have gained great popularity as there has been an ever increasing demand for second passports with the visa free travel benefit for the rich and wealthy. In 2018 Caribbean nations sold over 50,000 passports, contributing about 25% of their national GDP.…
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15 Citizenship by Real Estate Investment Programs
Buy a real estate! Get a second citizenship for free. Yes, thats right, there are over 25 countries offering immediate citizenship (with passport) against a big real estate investment. Some european countries offer immediate residency which later will be converted into citizenship after holding the real estate property for few years. Luxury property investments are in…
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Cyprus sells EU citizenship for €2 million euros
Cyprus passport is for sale! As much as this sounds interesting, yes Cyprus is selling their citizenship against a luxury real estate investment of €2,000,000. EU Citizenship can be bought in 3 months too!. This money is a staggering amount, but look at the benefits.. You become Cypriot citizen in 3 months, including all family…
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578 Foreign nationals applied for Malta Citizenship in 2015
According to the news report by Independent Malta, Justice minister announced that total 578 foreign nationals applied for Malta Individual Investor program (aka Malta IIP) in 2015, of which 201 applications were approved of Citizenship. EU/EEA citizens are also eligible to apply under the IIP program. It is not clear from the above numbers how…
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Dominica citizenship to cost $100,000 from 1 Aug 2016
Dominica is currently the cheapest citizenship by investment program in the Caribbean, currently costing just $100,000 to obtain a passport. As of 1 Aug 2016, Dominica passport will only cost $100,000 under the donation option. There will no change of price according to the latest updates by Prime Minister of Dominica. Dominica has signed visa…
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St Kitts lifts ban on Syrians applying for Citizenship program
St Kitts and Nevis has recently announced that they will lift ban on Syrian nationals applying under the CIP programme. On March 10, 2016, The Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIP) has issued notice to all agents, to resume accepting applications from nationals of Syria who apply for Citizenship by investment program. http://www.ciu.govt.kn Dependents such as…
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St Kitts has sold over 10,000 passports until 2016
St Kitts & Nevis Citizenship-by-investment (CBI) program remains one of the most popular citizenship programs currently running in the Caribbean. According to the caribbeannewsnow.com, the Prime minister of St.Kitts & Nevi, has announced that 10,777 passports has been issued under the CBI program from 2005 to Dec 31, 2015. The breakdown of the figures shown…