Category: Citizenship by Investment

Spain emerges as an attractive country for investment activities for Chinese, Russians and Americans. According to Spanish Government Immigration portal report, Spain granted residence permits to 8,915 investors as by end of 2016 based on economic activity, with Chinese and Russians leading the way in investment in Spain. China (1.315), Russia (871), United States (750) Venezuela (705)…

Now that Hungary bond program is closed, there is another cheaper option to immigrate to Hungary.   Hungary offers entrepreneur visa to foreign investors who start a business in Hungary with a small investment.  Hungary is a part of schengen and the local currency is hungarian forints (1 EUR = 310 HUF).  The Hungarian capital…

The demand for UK investor visa to United Kingdom continues to grow among wealthy and rich around the world despite Brexit.  UK offers high value tier1 investor visa £2 million and tier1 entrepreneur visa for £200,000 investment in UK businesses to international investors. UK is very popular choice for many ‘uber’ rich individuals as UK is english…

The Australian Significant Investor visa (SIV)  scheme aka “golden visa”  offers quick and easy path to permanent residency in Australia to international investors who invest AUD$ 5 million for 4 years in Australia. The Australian SIV 188C Visa has number of benefits such as: Low residency requirement (40 days per year for primary applicant) No…

The Government of Greece offers ‘Golden visa’ to third country citizens who own real estate property in Greece, either personally or through a legal entity, provided the minimum value of the property is €250.000 or the same in investment projects. Greece offers golden visa under three investment options, according to Enterprise Greece. Real estate:  Permanent residence…

A second passport is a great way to diversify your assets through buying a citizenship in another country. A second passport can essentially give you a second life and freedom in another country, most importantly at troubled times. According to Sovereignman article – A second passport with dual citizenship can essentially save your life. The idea…

Real estate provides an excellent opportunity for high net worth individuals to make a profitable investment in luxury properties in Europe and Caribbean. Golden visa programs in Europe such as Portugal, Spain, Greece offer permanent residency whereas, only Malta and Cyprus offers EU citizenship.  Caribbean countries offer direct passport against buying a approved real estate.…

Cyprus remains another popular country for immigration. According to Civil Registry and Migration Department statistics, Cyprus issued a total of 3472 residence permits for July 2016. The main country of origin is Russia for immigration permits which is issued based on investment for third country nationals. Cyprus issued 9302 immigration permits as of July 2016.…

Malta published Third Annual Report on the Individual Investor Programme of the Government of Malta  from 1st July 2015 – 30th June 2016. The Individual Investor Programme of the Republic of Malta (IIP), by virtue of Legal Notice 47 of 2014, allows for the granting of citizenship by a certificate of naturalisation to individuals and…

Golden Visas are residency by investment programs granting immediate permanent residency to foreign investors given against investing into government approved investments such as bank deposit, property purchase or investment in business that create jobs. Unlike  citizenship by investment programs, investors only qualify for citizenship (does not come immediate) after living several years in the country, speaking local…