Category: Citizenship by Investment

European golden visa programmes offer an excellent opportunity to foreigners and non-EU persons to immigrate to Europe. Buying an immovable property, government bonds, donation or creating jobs through enterprise investment are some of the common investment options that qualify for ‘Golden visa’ in Europe. Foreign Investors and family members qualify for permanent residence permit based…

Grenada score first spot for the best citizenship by investment program in the world for bringing Gold standard in the CBI industry. Grenada passport has extensive benefits such as E-2 visa, visa free access to China, Russia, EU/UK etc.

As the world has become increasingly globalized, the need for greater travel freedom has grown steadily creating a new demand for investment based citizenship and residency programs. Today Citizenship Investment (CBI) industry is already grown to $5 billion industry, while the RBI/golden visa industry has already grown to $10 billion market, making both the markets…

The Netherlands launched Golden investor visa scheme on Oct 2013 to attract foreign investment and job creation in the country to benefit startups and VC funds. The scheme offers immediate residency to investors and the scheme is one of the fastest approval times (only 10 days) among all golden visa schemes in Europe. . The investment must…

The Caribbean has been the birth place of Passport schemes through investment. Today there are five caribbean countries offering instant passports for donating to state or through real estate investment in a hotel. The Caribbean CBI schemes are the cheapest compared to Europe. This is mainly prices have come down to half of what existed…

The Maltese Golden visa scheme, also known as Malta Residence Visa (MRV) is currently the cheapest golden visa program in Europe. Malta competes with other countries  Latvia, Greece running golden visas. Malta is similar to hungarian residence bond scheme which closed in 2015. Foreign investors must buy bonds/stocks locked for five years for 250,000 EUR…

The Turkish citizenship by investment (TCBI) scheme is one of interesting and affordable citizenship schemes in the world. You can immediately become a citizen of Turkey buying a property for $250,000.   The Turkish Government first announced the citizenship for investment scheme through Article 12 of the Law No. 5901 promulgated on July 28, 2016, allowing…

  Vanuatu has the quickest CBI passport among all the citizenship by investment (Cbi) programs.  Vanuatu has significantly improved processing times to application approvals less than a month. Vanuatu is the only country that has one of the exclusive passport by investment schemes in the pacific with the fastest processing times. Application approvals – 3…

We have compiled the data for comparing  citizenship by investment (CBI/CIP) passport schemes.  This data consists of 30 very important factors to rank best passport by investment scheme to apply.   The chart gives you in-depth knowledge into the countries running CBI schemes and you will have a chance to decide which country is the…

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…