Citizenship by Investment

On November 21st., 2018, the Brazil published the Normative Resolution No 36 (“NR 36”) that discipline the granting of residence to foreigners investing in Brazilian real estate property. Foreigners buying a property for minimum of $180,000 (R$ 700,000) will be granted residence rights to live in Brazil. According to the Ministry of Labour,  new rules…

The Permanent Residency Program of Antigua & Barbuda was introduced in 1995 to encourage wealthy individuals to establish tax residency in the country. Antigua and Barbuda is an offshore jurisdiction with no personal income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and wealth tax. It offers wide range of opportunities for asset protection, including the Citizenship by Investment Program, launched in 2013.…

Antigua and Barbuda has one of the most popular citizenship by investment programmes in the Caribbean. The CIP scheme was launched in 2013. Antigua passport in 2018, has visa free travel to 150 countries in the world (UK, EU Schengen states, Ireland etc) . As per the CIP regulations, applicants must contribute to donation fund or…

Almost Half of the world countries have worst passports, severely restricting mobility and travel freedom for its citizens. Afghanistan and Iraq passports are the worst passports in the World as of 2019, according to Henley passport rankings, For example chinese passport has only limited travel freedom to only 74 countries, while russia passport has access…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A person is considered a dual national when he owes allegiance to more than one country at the same time. Dual citizenship requirements cannot be overlooked when acquiring a citizenship in a foreign country through citizenship or residence by investment schemes (CRBI). Residence schemes offer a path to naturalize for citizenship after a certain number years…

People in India, very often confuse between holding dual citizenships with Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) introduced by the the Govt of India. The Indian constitution does not allow dual citizenship or simultaneously holding two passports of different countries. The Indian Citizenship Act, 1955, does not allow dual citizenship. Holding Indian passport/acquiring Indian passport/travelling on Indian…

We at Best Citizenships (BC) did a quick survey on passports. Although there are many passport ranking indexes solely rank on visa free travel and other factors, it does not take into account of rarity. We really like passports that are exclusive, rare and very respected ones and most importantly from a peaceful country. Many…

‘Golden visas’ usually refer to specific ‘policies developed by countries seeking to attract wealthy people to become residents or citizens’.1 Different official terminologies exist to designate these types of policies: economic citizenship programmes (ECPs), immigrant investor programmes (IIPs). Golden visa schemes designed to attract foreign investment are found across the globe and in almost every…

Moldova has opened a new CBI program granting citizenship to foreign investors. The scheme opened in July 2018 with Henley and Partners awarded the tender, to design, develop and implement the Moldova CBI program. Moldova CBI program is one of the cheapest citizenship by investment schemes in Eastern Europe. Launched in the second half of…

Campione d’Italia ia small muncipality town in the Lombard region of Italy. It is conveniently tucked between taly and Switzerland along the Lugano lake occupying an enclave with swiss canton Ticino. It takes about 15 min drive from Lugano and about an hour drive from Milan (Italy) to reach campione. The town has a small…