PropMix builds automation solutions for the real estate industry using technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and AR/VR applied to millions of records of real estate data that they have been gathering over the past 4 years. PropMix is building the…
Greece plan for Citizenship-by-Investment programme in 2020
It has been reported that the new Greek Government, under Kyriacos Mitsotakis, are considering launching a CBI programme in 2020 which, if confirmed, would provide direct competition to the successful Cypriot citizenship programme. Currently, Greece only has a Residency-by-Investment programme. The plans are…
Citizenships Still Issued After Moldova’s Citizenship-by-Investment (MCBI) Application Pause
Following Moldova’s four-month moratorium on their Citizenship-by-Investment programme for government review on 19 July 2019, applications that were submitted before July are still being processed. From the date of suspension of the programme, two applicants (including their dependants) have received citizenship in Moldova….
South Africa’s New National Health Insurance (NHI) prompts the Emigration of Doctors
With ANC’s success from the SA election in 2019, they have brought in new ideas that have faced a lot of criticism and opposition. The new bill (NHI) that was passed this week has prompted a lot of doctors to immigrate out of…
City Focus: Bengaluru
Bengaluru quick facts State: Karnataka Area (City): 709 km² Area (Metropolitan): 8,005 km² Location: 12.59°N, 77.35°E Altitude: 920 metres Average high °C: Apr 34°, Nov 27° Population: 13.958 million (2019 estimate) Languages: Kannada (official), Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English Religion: Hindu (79%), Muslim (14%) Main industries: IT, Biotechnology, Electronics City GDP: $83 billion…
The Turkish Citizenship Investment Programme Approves Several Applications
From the opening of the programme in 2017 up to June 2019, it has been published in the official report of the official government newspaper that 981 applications were have been successful. Most of these applications came from countries such as US, Russia,…
EB-5 Programme Changes and Increase of Minimum Investment Costs
There are new rule changes that will be brought to the EB-5 program, which are going to officially come into effect on 21st November 2019. These changes include priority date retention to certain EB-5 investors, increase to the required minimum investment amounts, reforms…
Migration Advisory Committee to Review Points Based System
The new Prime Minister will commission a further review of the Points Based System. In his first statement to Parliament today, the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that he will ask the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to undertake a review of the…
Moldova Suspends its MCBI Programme
The President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, has today (18th July 2019) announced in a local press conference that the new government has ‘temporarily’ suspended its Citizenship by Investment (MCBI) programme pending a review. The programme only launched in November 2018 and the successful…
New Investment Opportunity in Egypt
Parliament in Egypt had approved a bill that amended their law to introduce the grant of Egyptian Nationality to foreign investors for the price of 7 million Lei (approx. US$420,000) in September 2018. In early July 2019, the government had put forward amendments…