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Our summary of the news this week.

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An audio summary of this week's news in IMI.

A summary of this week's news in IMI.

This week in IMI: New Q1 2023 Private Briefing Available Now: Request Your Confidential Copy Saint Lucia CIU Circular Says Promotion of CBI Real Estate Discounts Violate License Terms Active Investor Visas: 5 Lessons to Ensure Profitability and Client Satisfaction Malaysia M2H Applications Down by 90% Since New Rules Imposed, Says Industry Association The Proposal to Close the Golden Visa is Uncon...

A summary of this week's news in investment migration.

Listen to Investment Migration This Week on Spotify . Singapore’s Economic Development Board has decided to sharply raise the minimum investment required to qualify for permanent residency in the city-state through its Global Investor Program. The threshold will rise from investments of SGD 10m and SGD 25m in categories A and B, both of which have hitherto demanded a minimum investment of only SGD...

Our guest this week on the Mobility Standard podcast was Madalena Monteiro of Magwind. She came to talk about the Italian "Dolce Visa" , one of Europe's remaining golden visa programs.  We spoke to Madalena about: What happened in Portugal last week , and whether the Italian investor visa stands to benefit; Why the Dolce Visa has a "99% chance" of getting a real estate inv...

Investment migration remains a small-firm industry because, in this market, scale offers few benefits and several disadvantages.

The most eventful week in the history of investment migration is drawing to a close.  One major golden visa closed outright when Irish Justice Minister Simon Harris unceremoniously announced that his country’s Immigrant Investor program would be closing with immediate effect . Last year, rumors of the program’s potential closure drove a surge in applications, almost entirely from Chinese investors...

Malaysia now has four separate residence-by-deposit programs after Sarawak - one of two Malaysian states that control their own immigration policies - introduced its own version of the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) program. Sarawak’s program offers essentially the same benefits as its federal counterpart - the right to reside for 5+5 years anywhere in Malaysia - but at one-fifth of the cost .  Th...

Our guests this week on the Mobility Standard were David Lesperance, Managing Partner of Lesperance & Associates, one of the world's leading experts on international tax and immigration, and Melvin Warshaw, a US-based cross-border tax and private client lawyer with more than 40 years of experience in the field.  Lesperance and Warshaw are also the authors of our American Exceptionalism co...

Globalization is reversing, history is returning, and the world is becoming a perilous place again. The Western hemisphere will be an exception.

This opinion piece from IMI's editor first appeared on imidaily.com on March 6th, 2019. Citizenship by investment has granted small, developing countries in the Caribbean and Pacific the means to fund public spending independently rather than rely on outside aid or loans. That financial autonomy reduces the influence developed countries have in these jurisdictions, which is one of the reasons...

Our guest this week on the Mobility Standard podcast was Slava Apel, CEO of Startup Visa Services , who came to talk about Canada's Startup Visa. The episode covers practically all facets of the program, including (but far from limited to): Is it true that the Canada SUV can be a passive-investment program if you plan the right way? "Residence by investment, minus the investment": W...

Our guest on the Mobility Standard podcast this week is Andrew Henderson, founder of Nomad Capitalist.  In under a decade, Andrew has built the world's most recognizable brand in the "global citizenship" space. The firm, which now has more than 50 employees, helps hundreds of clients each year to design and implement a global diversification strategy that includes not only residence...

Our guest on the Mobility Standard podcast this week was Benjamin Lodmell of asset protection specialist firm Lodmell & Lodmell.  Lodmell has spent the last several decades working on more than half a dozen countries and, together with his father and brother, has built the world's leading asset protection firm serving several thousand clients.  We spoke about  His global journey and what...

Our guest this week on the Mobility Standard is Jeremy Savory, founder of Dubai-based Savory & Partners. Topics of discussion in today's episode include: The road from growing up in Southwest London to running a Savory & Partners in Dubai; What it's like to run a CBI business in the hyper-competitive Dubai market and whether it has hardened him as a businessman; Why he chose to b...

Our guest on the Mobility Standard podcast this week is Mr. Titus Gebel, a German-born lawyer and entrepreneur who is now dedicating his life to the development of Free Private Cities, jurisdictions embedded within conventional states but operated by private companies for profit; a peaceful and voluntary alternative to the coercion-based systems of government we have today.  "The defining fea...

This week, our three guests on the Mobility Standard podcast were Matthew Galati, Principal of The Galati Law Firm , Ishaan Khanna, President of the American Immigrant Investor Alliance , and EB-5 expert, business plan writer, and author of the world's leading EB-5 blog , Suzanne Lazicki. In this episode, the three EB-5 experts engaged in an in-depth discussion of the recently passed EB-5 Ref...

Independent means visas (IMVs) , such as Portugal's D7 , Greece's FIP , and Italy's Elective Residency have rapidly gained attraction in a post-pandemic mobility market, where those who might previously have opted for a golden visa (which doesn't demand physical presence) are increasingly willing to relocate.  In this episode, we spoke to Andre Bothma, founder of D7visa.com and...

Our guest on the Mobility Standard this week was Nuri Katz, founder of Apex Capital Partners. We spoke to him about a range of current events, including Vanuatu's possible suspension from the EU visa-waiver scheme, Montenegro's last-minute CBI extension, and the industry's apparent failure to effectively lobby the European Commission. Timestamps: 02:15 - Introduction to Nuri Katz an...

The Mobility Standard podcast this week hosted John Hanafin, chief executive at Huriya Private, who spoke with us about the complementarity of investment migration and financial planning, both of which are fields in which he has extensive experience. Timestamps 00:30 - Who is John Hanafin and what is Huriya Private? 05:45 - The complementarity of investment migration and financial planning: Can yo...