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OECS Media Release The Caribbean countries which offer Citizenship By Investment Programmes are moving with alacrity to implement the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). ​ The signatories of the MOA are: Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia. ​ See signed MOA.The MOA which was published in March 2024…

CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP UNIFIED PRICE INCREASE BY JUNE 30, 2024. Minimum USD 100,000 Will increase to USD 200,000+ Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, and St Kitts and Nevis have signed a historic Memorandum of Agreement.

Golden Visa Consultancy is thrilled to announce the appointment of Eric Chamberland as our new Vice President of Business Development. Eric brings with him an impressive 20 years of experience in advising high-net-worth individuals from around the world on investment opportunities and mobility solutions. He has a proven track record of working for international financial…

*On October 29th, the SEF – Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (Immigration and Borders Service) underwent a major restructuring, in which the former agency was abolished, and AIMA took over control of the administrative processes relating to immigration. AIMA has started its services with 34 service posts around the country and plans to open at…

A long article by Jose Ribeiro e Castro, a senior constitutional lawyer, partner at the PMCM law firm and former leader of the People’s Party, and an MEP. He argues that: (1) the housing crisis is not the fault of the ARI, (2) that the ARI scheme could be better managed to promote more positive…

On 25 February 2023 a historic US-Caribbean Roundtable on Citizenship by Investment was held in Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis. The highly productive and mutually beneficial engagement involved delegations of the five Eastern Caribbean states with Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Programmes led by their Prime Ministers and a delegation of the Government of the…

By Terence Baker Hotel News Now January 30, 2023 | 7:04 P.M. MADRID — Setting up meetings with government officials might not seem to be the most fun way of filling up a calendar, but for hotel industry leaders such face-to-face interaction can prove invaluable. Collaboration with government officials on large-scale resort development is especially critical…

Nicolas Salerno Founder and Managing Director at Golden Visa Consultancy on the rising popularity of getting a second citizenship and the process it entails Golden-Visa Consultancy is a boutique advisory firm focused on real estate development, business immigration and citizenship by investment. Our firm offers a personalised service to clients who need assistance on the…

  International Immigration Experts Panel on Trending Destinations To Build Your Better Tomorrow at IREX Residency & Citizenship Conclave 2021, Dubai. Panelists (L to R): Anisha Nayar Dhawan (Moderator): TV News Anchor & Journalist Christos Vardikos, Attorney at Law and Consul of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Vardikos & Vardikos, Greece Matt Hogan, Vice President of…

We are thrilled to announce that after an industry-wide vote by Uglobal Immigration Magazine to recognise the RCBI industry’s leading professionals, Golden Visa Consultancy has been selected as one of the Top 25 winners for 2021. The nomination was a vote taken by stakeholders and professionals. You can read the full issue of the magazine…

Granting citizenship to entrepreneurs or creating long-term residency programmes could hold advantages for African countries, says Nicolas Salerno, managing partner of Golden Visa Consultancy.      

Ghi chú của biên tập: Những người chọn đi du lịch được khuyến khích kiểm tra các hạn chế, quy tắc và biện pháp an toàn của chính quyền địa phương liên quan đến COVID-19 và xem xét mức độ thoải mái cá nhân và tình trạng sức khỏe trước khi khởi hành. Sau khi…

Lisbon has been ranked as the third most innovative city in the world according to a new report by Ambreyewear. Ambreyewear decided to look into where in the world is best for innovative and creative minds. It took into consideration “innovation, creativity, connectivity, education, wellbeing, and employment opportunities”. Innovation is the home of creativity and…

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a most dramatic effect on the hotel business throughout Europe and words like ‘unprecedented’ and ‘unique’ are used liberally to describe the situation. Performance data from STR for the first half of the year compared with 2019 show how dramatic the effect on the hotel…

Recently, there has been a lot of information on the Internet about the changes in the Cyprus Investment Programme. We hereby inform you of the final changes officially published in the Government Gazette on August 17-18, which came into force. For convenience, we present the new terms of the programme in comparison with the previous…

From European classics that crop up on the list of the best countries in the world again and again – Italy, Portugal, Croatia – to further-flung places that keep drawing travellers in – Vietnam, Colombia, Tanzania – these are the best countries it visit according to the readers of Condé Nast Traveller. The scores below…

This distinction, awarded by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), aims to certify destinations that comply with hygiene and safety rules and aims to give confidence to those who travel after restrictions to avoid the spread of covid-19. “This seal aims to recognize destinations that comply with health and hygiene protocols aligned with the…

A new push to relaunch Portugal’s Golden Visa regime – along with the ‘tax break’ NHR programme – has emerged this week, just as interest from residents in Hong Kong is ‘going off the scale’. APPII (the Portuguese property investment association) is calling on the government to ‘supercharge’ the sector with four measures which it…

The Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment Unit has announced effective immediately, wide-ranging reductions and other attractive changes to most options under its Citizenship by Investment Program. See program updates below COVID – 19 RELIEF BOND Offer Valid Until 31 December 2020 Investment in Government Bond starts at $250,000.00 (a discount of 50%) The Investment amount…

After Covid 19 opportunities and challenges for the Portuguese Golden Visa Investment – Webinar 9:00AM

O Conselho de Ministros aprovou um regime experimental para a realização de atos autênticos, termos de autenticação de documentos particulares e reconhecimentos de letra e assinatura através da internet. O novo regime vai permitir que conservadores de registos e oficiais de registos, notários, advogados e solicitadores realizem estes atos, que, de outro modo, exigiriam a presença física…

Application volumes and processing speeds are holding up remarkably well for the program, despite widespread immigration office closures and a global pandemic. The April statistical release from the Portuguese Borders and Immigration Service (SEF) show 53 main applicants (along with 93 of their family members) obtained golden visas in Portugal during the month no the…

Portugal is hoping its track record as a safe haven will help attract foreign investors and tourists who will help spur a “sharp” recovery once confinement measures to tackle the coronavirus are eased. Economy Minister Pedro Siza Vieira said Portugal, where a lockdown has been less severe than in many European countries, will start allowing…

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By Essential Business Ignacio de la Torre, Chief Economist at Spanish investment bank Arcano discussed ‘Why Portuguese and Spanish Real Estate Markets will keep rising’ at an event organised by the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Investors and Developers this week and dismissed fears of a another looming recession or property bubble on the Iberian Peninsula.Both…

The investment raised by the golden residence visa scheme for foreigners fell by 11.4 percent in 2019, compared to the previous year, to €742 million. According to data from the Foreigners and Border Service (SEF), during last year 1,245 golden visas were granted, of which 1,160 Residence Authorisations for Investment Activity (ARI) raising €660.7 million…

For the fourth straight year, we should not expect Donald Trump to visit the Statue of Liberty and deliver a speech celebrating America’s tradition as a nation of immigrants. But here’s what we should expect to happen on immigration in 2020. H-1B and L-1 Visas: Employers should expect denials of H-1B petitions, particularly for companies that serve…

A Portuguese city has once again made Forbes magazine’s list of “best European cities to invest in”, with Porto replacing Lisbon which had made the list last year. Forbes contacted LeadingRE, a global consortium of 565 real estate brokerages across 70 countries, to create the list for 2020 and find out what cities were showing…

By Len Port Portugal has been much in the international news this year and most of the reports in the major papers have been positive. When Portugal was rated number three in this year’s Global Peace Index, published annually by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace, the Sydney Morning Herald was naturally among those quick off the…

We are writing to update you on the latest developments regarding the Cyprus Investment Program (“CIP”) as some amendments and clarifications were decided in a meeting of the Council of Ministers on July 25th 2019 and were published in the official Gazette of the Republic on 23rd August 2019. The Program’s financial requirements are still…

Recovering Portuguese economy is being bolstered by continuous support from foreign investors. The country succeeded in attracting many investors from all around the world to help steer it away from its crisis back in 2010. Data shows that investor interest in Portugal continues in 2019. Migratory (Golden Visa induced) and tourism related movements are generating…

IF YOUR RETIREMENT dream is to live in one of the grand old cities of Europe, it can be difficult to narrow down your options. Retirees on a budget need to consider the cost of living and affordability of real estate. As you get older you will need health care that is readily accessible at reasonable prices.…

O jornal espanhol El Mundo fez um ranking dos países que considera os melhores para os reformados viverem “bem com pouco”. Portugal, mesmo ao lado, é um deles. Os restantes exigem atravessar oceanos. Viver muito bem, com pouco dinheiro, enquanto se descobre o património cultural, gastronómico e natural de um sítio. Foi com base nesta…

In 2012, Portugal was forced to suffer in silence as IMF-engineered austerity took its toll on the country. However, a change of direction in recent years has revitalised and rejuvenated the nation’s economy Lisbon, Portugal. The country has managed to reverse the economic decline it found itself mired in just 7 years ago as it…

By Melanius Alphonse Caribbean News Now associate managing editor [email protected] ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – In new regulations gazetted on Monday, the government of Grenada has reduced the minimum investment requirement for the real estate option of the country’s citizenship by investment (CBI) program from US$350,000 to US$220,000. The new reduced investment is only applicable where…

January figures from SEF show Portugal’s Golden Visa program is continuing the upward trend its started last summer; 146 main applicants – and 241 of their family members – invested 85.6 million euros in the West-Iberian economy in the first month of the year. That’s an average of €586,000, well above the minimum. Should each month in…

Montenegro’s Secretariat for Development Projects says it has received more than 30 applications from international service providers expressing their interest in becoming accredited intermediaries for the country’s new citizenship by investment program. At the beginning of January, the government opened the application window for both prospective agents and due diligence providers, setting the deadline at…

Ahead of the Home Office’s heralded reform of the UK Tier 1 Investor Visa program – the particulars of which remain a known unknown – investors in December scrambled to submit applications. 2018 was a record year for the program; Application volumes have not been this high since before the price-doubling in 2014. Statistics from the…

For the past few years, the Cyprus Investment Program has been deemed as a leading organization that constantly evolves. Their development includes implementing a much more rigorous due diligence, providing newly improved processing procedures and consistently creating ideas that further promote the organization’s goals. Cyprus, one of the most prosperous nations of Europe, has made…