Podcast Episodes

This Week in IM - Feb 20: 🇵🇦 Sets Records, 🇲🇹 CBI Sales Decline Upon EU’s Threats, 🇺🇸 EB-5 Risks Examined, ++

🇵🇦 Sets Investor Visa Records
🇸🇾 CIP Applicants to Undergo Strict Due Diligence
🇲🇹 Citizenship Sales Linked to EU’s Threats
🇺🇸 EB-5 Risks: A Complete Gu…

1 year ago

Regulator Attributes Decline in Malta Citizenship Sales to EU Legal Threats

A belatedly released statistical report reveals the European Commission’s threats against Malta materially harmed its CBI revenue.

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1 year ago

Analyzing EB5’s Financial, Procedural, and Time Risks

Christina Tabacco examines the tradeoffs between increased EB5 regulatory burden and revised processing approaches under the reformed program

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1 year ago

Passport Potpourri: Kuwait Revocations, Cyprus Citizenship Backlog, “Lost Canadians,” and More

The latest updates in Passport Potpourri cover sweeping citizenship purges, stalled reforms, new residency hurdles, and more.

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1 year ago

Divisive Storm Brewing Over IIUSA EB-5 Lawsuit

IIUSA lawsuit challenges USCIS rules on EB-5 investment periods, splitting industry between regional centers and investor advocates.

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1 year ago

Caribbean Launches Regional CIP Regulator Initiative

The Caribbean Five continue to build on their MoA and now aim to address another one of the six principles by establishing a regional regulator.

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1 year ago

Hong Kong Accepts Crypto Assets as Proof of Wealth for CIES

The Hong Kong Investment Promotion Agency confirmed two Chinese investors proved US$3.8m in Bitcoin and Ethereum to qualify for the CIES.

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1 year ago

This Week in IM - Feb 13: 🇭🇰 CIES Accepts Crypto, 🇳🇿 Eases Investor Rules, 🇮🇹 to Vote on Citizenship Req’s, ++

🌴 Caribbean CIPs Launch Regulator
🇺🇸 EB-5 Program Fights Lawsuit
🇭🇰 Confirms Crypto as Proof of Funds
🇮🇹 To Vote in Citizenship Referendum
🇳🇿 Eases Rules…

1 year ago

Court Approves Referendum to Halve Italian Naturalization Time

2.5 million foreign residents hang in the balance, Mesina notes, as Italy considers its most consequential citizenship reform in decades.

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1 year ago

New Zealand to Scrap English Test, Slash Investment Requirements for Investor Visa

“No one has ever invested 15 million actual dollars”: New Zealand admits investor visa rules were “an absolute nightmare”.

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