IMI Podcasts

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...

Kenneth Green of Advance Global Partners joined us on the Mobility Standard podcast this week to talk about: 03:32 - The latest news on Dominica's planned Entrepreneur-visa , which will offer a two-year path to citizenship starting at US$50,000: "The CBI citizens don't want to reside here, they don't want to come here, they don't even want to visit during the application p...

Our guest this week on the Mobility Standard podcast was Mohammed Asaria of Range Developments, the Caribbean CBI market’s leading property developer. The agenda during this episode included a progress report from his third project in the region, the Six Senses in Grenada; the scourge of illegal CBI discounting and how it’s being dealt with; why most developers don’t have what it takes to finish t...

Our guest on the Mobility Standard podcast this week is Philippe May, until recently the Managing Partner of Arton Capital in Singapore who is now a free agent with big - although secret - plans, and strong opinions on current events in the investment migration market.  EPRS report on EU investment migration programs "a fringe issue" Commenting on the European Parliament Research Service...

Our guest on the Mobility Standard podcast this week was Mr. Matt Galati, an American immigration lawyer who has made a big name for himself as one of the world’s foremost EB-5 litigation attorneys. We spoke to him about how, and why, he sues various departments of the US government on behalf of his EB-5 clients, as well as why he’s been so successful at it. We also had Matt explain, in layman’s t...

Katie Ananina, better known by her Twitter handle "Katie the Russian", takes a marketing approach that's different from almost all other investment migration consultants:  Focusing the entirety of her customer acquisition strategy on Twitter, she finds 100% of her clients through that platform. Addressing an audience almost exclusively composed of relatively young, freedom-loving, g...

Our guest this week on the Mobility Standard podcast was Sam Bayat, founder of Bayat Legal Services, one of the Middle East's foremost investment migration firms.  Sam has been active in the investment migration market since the very beginning and we took the opportunity to raise a number of questions best answered with the benefit of three decades of hindsight. Though he's been nearly t...

We had the pleasure of hosting Nestor Alfred, the CEO of Saint Lucia's Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) on the Mobility Standard podcast last week. We covered a wide range of topics, including (timestamped): 01:11 - Who is Nestor Alfred? Nestor told us about how, from humble beginnings as the middle child among seven siblings, he was able to rise through the professional ranks in both the...

Ashish Saraff says he's confident both that India will soon allow dual citizenship and that the Indian investment migration market will become the world's largest within a decade. In this episode of the Mobility Standard , we spoke to Ashish Saraff of Aretha Capital Partners. Himself an Indian by birth, Ashish has, for many years, been intimately involved in developing the Indian investm...

Our guest this week was Micha-Rose Emmett, long-time CEO of CS Global Partners.  We started off on a personal level, by asking questions designed to tell us more about who Micha-Rose is. She answered questions about how she got started in investment migration and the road to where she is today. We discussed some of the issues closest to Micha’s heart - global citizenship, freedom, female empowerme...

Our guest this week is Yuri Lau, a Dutch national who has been living in Argentina for the last 16 years and who is now working on investment migration solutions tailored for crypto-investors through the company he co-founded; Citizens of Bitcoin. We spoke to Yuri about Citizens of Bitcoin and how he aims to tailor mobility packages specifically suited to crypto-investors. We also discussed how th...

In this fourth installment of the Mobility Standard, we spoke to Murat Coskun of Get Golden Visa, a man who's been closely involved with the Portugal Golden Visa's fund investment option since the very beginning. We asked him a range of questions about RCBI fund options, including: Which investment migration programs out there, beyond Portugal, have a fund option, either explicitly in th...

In this third episode of the Mobility Standard, we had the pleasure of hosting David Lesperance , an internationally recognized expert on what he himself calls “backup plans”, by which he means comprehensive structures aimed at protecting your person, your family, and your assets from anything from black swan events and natural disasters to avaricious politicians and criminals.  We asked David abo...

For investment migration, 2020 was a year of both setbacks and of considerable advances. While the pandemic brought record global awareness of the usefulness of alternative citizenships and residencies, it also made putting investment migration plans into practice far more difficult. Some programs have seen record application volume while others have seen it collapse. Service providers speak of a...

2020 has seen a surge in investment migration among applicants from countries we tend not to think of as typical outbound investment migration markets and we ask: Is this just a flash in the pan that will revert to normal when the pandemic is over? If not, what does it mean for investment migration programs, service providers, and applicants? We discuss how different citizenship and residence by i...