Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan

Greece is currently planning to launch a new  Greek citizenship by investment program (GCBI) in first quarter of 2020. The program will offer foreign investors fast track citizenship in Greece who invest atleast €2m euros in real estate. After success of Greek golden visa scheme which already brought billions of euros into the Greek real…

Montenegro has launched the latest and most recent citizenship by investment program (CIP) in Europe.  It is also an exciting citizenship through investment opportunity for real estate investors. The country is a candidate country for EU membership most likely to join European Union and Schengen area latest by 2025, makes the citizenship scheme even more…

Vanuatu currently has the fastest citizenship by investment program, as the government made significant changes to the scheme with most applications are approved in just one month.   Vanuatu is one of the few CBI countries with fastest passport times with most citizenship cases completed within 1 month, unlike Caribbean citizenship schemes which take about 3-4…

The new concept of paid citizenship for investment schemes are becoming insanely popular, driven by globalization, volatility and political instability in many countries. Paid Citizenship means receiving instant citizenship in a foreign country for money or investments. These citizenship schemes are commonly known as Citizenship By Investment (CBI). Roughly two thousand years ago, Romans offered…

USCIS has published a final rule that will make significant changes to EB-5 program effective from Nov 21, 2019 under Trump Administration  in order to modernize the EB-5 program. The new reforms of EB-5 expected to drive more foreign investment into rural areas creating 10 jobs or more per investor. The EB-5 immigrant investor scheme first launched in…

Citizenship in exchange for investing in five star and luxury hotels have become a new trend in recent years.  There are currently close 10 countries that offer instant passports for investing in hotels and resorts. Today we are introducing our Hotel Citizenship platform, a revolutionary new idea to connect hoteliers and buyers, with the citizenship…

You might ask which is the best citizenship by investment (CBI) scheme in the world. This is also most common question by CBI applicants. We have answers for you.!  Our first of the kind mathematical model in the CBI industry, gives answer on which is the best citizenship by investment program in the world. We…

This is probably the most important question you might ask when deciding to apply for a citizenship by investment passport (CIP) program. We have developed a new tool to compare the prices of citizenship by investment (CBI) programs and find the cheapest citizenship program in terms of prices for CBI applicants. This tool is a beta…

Grenada has made further significant changes to its citizenship by investment (CBI) program. Effective immediately, the Grenada CBI program allows siblings of the main applicant or their spouse to be included within an application. The family members that can be included within a Grenada CBI application now include: Spouse Children under 30 years Parents Siblings over 18…

St Lucia has amended Citizenship by investment program (CIP) Act 2019 making it simple to applicants.   The changes were approved and gazetted by the government to make the St Lucia CIP more competitive with other five citizenship by investment schemes in the Caribbean. From now on family members of CBI citizens also receive citizenship…