Category: Citizenship by Investment

A lot of new changes and amendments happened to citizenship by investment programs in 2019, some countries have tightened the rules while others simplified the acquisition of citizenship through investments. Here is a quick summary on changes that happened: Montenegro will be officially opening for applications only in late 2019 or early 2020, until then…

A study was conducted to answer which country has the best citizenship in the world.  The Best Citizenships Index (BCI) used a Point based scoring (PBS) model to score citizenship rankings of 190 countries in the world. The study took into account over 15 metrics such as healthcare, economy, GDP, freedom, human development, strong currency,…

  The New Brunswick province of Canada, offers a  New Brunswick foreign investor and entrepreneur program (NBIIP),  to international investors and entrepreneurs, who are required to invest atleast CAD 250,000 and run a business living  in NB.   The New Brunswick province is currently open to foreign investment attracting investors creating new jobs and enhance…

Grenada has made significant changes to its citizenship-by-investment (CBI) program from 1 April 2019.   The most important 2019 changes made to the Grenada’s citizenship by investment program are   Real estate investment reduced to USD 220,000 per share from $350,000 , jointly or co-investing in $440,000 unit. Removal of permanent residence as a pre-requisite for citizenship Remove the…

  Golden visas offer residence in exchange for investments in real estate, business or bonds. Investors and their family members are also given  a path to citizenship without any preferential treatment.   The golden visa investments have reached close to $100 billion, adding up $10 billion every year and expected to grow further.    Launched…

  UK and Ireland have the most popular golden visa schemes. The popularity of both these schemes is only rising among foreign investors applying for gold visas.   UK tier1 investor visa – £2 million Irish immigrant investor scheme – €1 million    United Kingdom   The UK’s tier1 investor visa scheme offers gold visas to rich…

France is one of the exciting countries to live, study and do business for UHNW individuals.  France aims to become technology capital in Europe and brexit also contributed a number of businesses moving from London to Paris. The South of France also attracts large number of wealthy foreigners     Between 2008 to 2016, France…

The Cyprus government has approved new changes to the cypriot citizenship by investment legislation,  effective from May 2019.   Currently Cyprus offers citizenship to foreign investors for €2 million euros, which requires buying a home for half a million euros.     Cyprus issued citizenships to 1,864 families since 2013 raising some EUR 6.6 billion euros…

  Malta’s takes the first place in Best Citizenships CBI Passport rankings 2019. Bulgaria takes second place while Cyprus on the third place.   Malta has scored 107 points out of maximum 150 points to take the first spot. Malta scored top marks for due diligence, safety, healthcare, human development index, strong currency.   Bulgaria ranks…

  The Golden visa scheme of Greece since its launch 2013, emerged to become the most popular golden visa schemes in Europe.   In 2013,  Greece issued only 31 golden visas, but in 2018, the popularity soared by 100X times with Greece issuing 3620 gold permits for property investors.   On an average Greece approves 330…