Citizenship by Investment & Residency by Investment

The Quebec Immigrant Investor Program will remain suspended for two more years as part of government reforms to modernize the immigration system in the eastern Canadian province...

Panama is catching on to the post-pandemic trend of making it easier for people to file their residency or citizenship by investment applications remotely. If all goes to plan, ...

Malta’s new regulations for gaining residency by investment came into effect today and no new applications will be accepted under the previous program. According to the officia...

Marco Mazzeschi is the founder of Mazzeschi S.R.L, one of the leading business immigration and citizenship law firm in Italy. He has more than 30 years of experience in corporat...

The Cyprus Permanent Residence Permit, which is granted to non-EU nationals investing in the Republic of Cyprus was amended on March 24. While the minimum investment amount of 3...

During the past two years, many experts were anticipating that Bulgaria would cancel its citizenship by investment program or would at least cripple its conditions. What happene...

The Australian Business and Investor visa program is changing from July 1. The current seven visa categories will be reduced to four, with the 188D Premium Investor visa, and bo...

North Macedonia is the latest country to invite international talent and investors to the nation through a new citizenship-by-investment program. Harvey Law Group, a Hong Kong-b...

Montenegro will stop its citizenship-by-investment program by the end of this year, according to an official government statement. The Montenegrin Cabinet has decided the CBI pr...

Lithuania has changed its employment and residency laws to make the country more appealing to highly educated and talented foreign workers. The republic on March 1 announced ame...

The pandemic has impacted the global RCBI industry in a positive way, according to Laszlo Kiss, a Vanuatu citizenship-by-investment agent. “It opened the eyes of many prospectiv...

There is an increased demand among the world's wealthiest individuals to obtain a second passport or legal residency beyond their home country, according to the newly released W...

The United Kingdom will begin accepting visa applications for its new graduate route from July 1, which enables international students to stay in the country for at least anothe...

Tiago Gali Macedo is the managing partner of Next Lawyers/Gali Macedo & Associados in Portugal. “As an immigration lawyer, I help people in all the stages regarding their reloca...

There has been a sharp rise in the interest among American investors to seek second passports and residency outside the U.S. during the pandemic. There was a 300% increase in Am...

China has launched a digital “vaccine passport” this week in the shape of an encrypted QR code on its WeChat app to promote travel and economic recovery, according to a Chinese ...

The Slovakian government has announced that it will amend its citizenship law to allow hundreds of thousands of its former citizens living abroad to regain their Slovakian citiz...

The U.K. has announced a new visa stream for highly-skilled migrants that will enable British financial businesses to hire employees without going through expensive and time con...

Canada has started accepting applications for its new visa stream providing a pathway to permanent residency to recent foreign graduates who want to build their own businesses a...

The government of Bermuda has announced a new pathway to permanent residency for high-net-worth individuals that will start next week. The initiative, called the Economic Invest...

The Portuguese government has made changes to its "Golden Visa" investment immigration program. However, the changes will not take effect until Jan. 1, 2022, allowing investors ...

Malta’s new residency-by-investment program is set to be presented before the country’s parliament within weeks. Once passed, the program would make the Mediterranean island mor...

The U.K. has begun accepting applications for the new British National Overseas (BNO) visa, which paves the path for Hong Kong residents to earn British citizenship. The U.K. go...

Cyprus will not replace its suspended citizenship by investment program, according to Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades. The announcement laid to rest rumors that the country...

The United Arab Emirates has amended its citizenship law to attract capital and intellectuals to the Gulf country.

The Skilled Immigration Act (Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz) has taken effect in Germany. It aims to prepare its economy for the future. The mission of the act is to bring skille...

The Antigua and Barbuda government is considering granting citizenship to stateless applicants born in Brunei, Kuwait, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, according to the Office of The Pri...

The Alberta government in Canada is underway creating a specialized Startup Visa Stream with fast-track processing for qualified graduates of top U.S. universities who commit to...

After leaving the EU, UK is now in a transition period until Dec. 31 with some rules and regulations to be extended until July of 2021. The UK government has followed the Migrat...

The Moldova parliament has extended the moratorium of accepting new applications for its CBI program until Sept. 1 this year. The temporary hold of the program is to give the go...

Turkey continues to see a steady increase of CBI applications with more than 5,000 foreign investors who have been granted citizenship following the country’s relaxed CBI legisl...

The Bulgarian citizenship by investment (CBI) program is currently one of three EU programs, alongside those of Malta and Cyprus that enables qualifying candidates to obtain fas...

Moldova’s government has proposed to extend the moratorium on its CBI program until 2021. A draft law for the future of the program is expected to be considered by the parliamen...

UAE property developers are urging the UAE government to reduce the investment limit for its 10-year residence visas to stimulate the economy and real estate market. Developers ...

UK’s government has today released the initial details about its new points-based immigration system, which first phase takes effect in January of 2021.

UK’s cabinet today agreed to new post-Brexit immigration rules that will make it easier for highly-skilled people to move to UK next year through a points-based system. The new ...

The Portuguese Parliament has approved an authorization to amend the Golden Visa Program legislation. This amendment constitutes in fact an opportunity both for Portugal and for...

Malta is looking into launching a new CBI program later this year, according to Malta’s Parliamentary secretary for citizenship and communities Alex Muscat.

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has today agreed to update and broaden the conditions for holders of Subclass 417 and 462 Working Holiday Maker visas to allow them to hel...

The Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering body Moneyval today released a report where it urged Cyprus to increase its process to prevent money laundering from criminal proce...

Uglobal is donating to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. We are joining forces with the American Lending Center and Sunstone Management by donating to help distribute ne...

The New Zealand government, which today announced it is temporarily restricting entry for all foreign nationals traveling from or via mainland China, have announced updates to i...

Portugal’s parliament has approved a measure in their budget that limits the issuance of golden visas for real estate investments in Lisbon and Porto as well as along the popula...

A missing clause in Cyprus' citizenship-by-investment law has temporarily stalled the process of revoking passports from the 26 people whose applications were deemed flawed afte...

IMF is encouraging St Kitts and Nevis to "cautiously piloting a digital currency" as part of its adopted Virtual Assets Bill. The move will pave the way for easier transfer of f...

After more than three years of fierce negotiations in Brussels and political debate in the United Kingdom, Brexit has now become a reality. Without a doubt, it will redefine how...

St. Kitts and Nevis plans to increase its due diligence process this year by making biometric checks mandatory for each CBI applicant.

Antigua and Barbuda is the latest country to close its borders for Chinese travelers today in response to the coronavirus.

The Republic of Estonia, which is known for its innovative E-residency program, has announced plans to launch a digital nomad visa.

As Brexit is happening today, UK has said it will let the 3.5 million EU citizens already living in the UK stay as long as they register with the EU settlement scheme.

In response to the coronavirus, Vanuatu’s Immigration and Passport Services has announced it is banning its officers from traveling to all Asian countries to deliver passports. ...

Portugal is underway launching a new measure to encourage investment, technology and innovation under the National Entrepreneurship Strategy.

Ireland, which has seen a sharp increase in the number of citizenship applications because of Brexit, has updated its naturalization application forms online. Applications submi...

Singapore is making changes to its Global Investor Program by offering permanent residency to next-gen business owners, founders of fast-growing companies and family office exec...

In light of Brexit, UK is launching a fast-track Global Talent visa program on Feb. 20 to attract top scientists, researchers and mathematicians to the country.

Brandon in Manitoba is the most recent community to open applications in Canada’s Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot program this week. It joins the areas of Sault Ste. Marie,...

Iranian nationals are no longer eligible for the E-1 and E-2 visas to live in the U.S. while engaging in international trade or investing into a U.S. business.

Canada has issued 3,400 invitations to apply for permanent residence to the highest-ranking foreign applicants in its second Express Entry draw this year on Jan. 22.

Ireland’s Immigrant Investor Program has announced that it will only accept applications between Feb. 17-21, April 20-24, June 22-26, Aug. 31- Sept. 4, and Oct. 26-30 in 2020.

The Portuguese government is taking the first steps towards implementing an “E-residency” program to attract foreign entrepreneurs.