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Dominica has the world’s best citizenship by investment programme
According to the CBI Index, a rating system designed to measure the performance and appeal of global by investment (CBI) programmes across a diverse range of indicators and published by the Financial Times, Dominica citizenship by investment it is the first choice for investment applicants. For the fourth consecutive year, Dominica has ranked on the…
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Portugal ranked the third most peaceful country in the world
According to the 2020 Global Peace Index (GPI), Portugal remains as one of the most peaceful countries around the world and it is placed in the third position behind Iceland and New Zealand, which are the first and the second one. Moreover, Portugal is the safest country in the Schengen area, followed by Austria (4th),…
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Many U.S. citizens apply for a European residence: the importance of having a Plan B
Due to the coronavirus situation, many U.S. citizens have applied for a European residence programme. The majority of them, are familiars of immigrants from Europe who live in the U.S. and now they want to come back to their origin country or in other attractive European countries, like Spain, Greece or Portugal, for example. As…
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Portuguese citizenship: no changes for the Jewish community
An amendment (2015) to the Portuguese ‘Law on Nationality’ allows Sephardi Jews descendants of inquisition-era deportees from Iberian Peninsula to obtain the Portuguese passport/citizenship. However, on May the Socialist Party presented an amendment to change the original law, and proposed that only the Jewish descendants who have lived in Portugal for two years would get…
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Main steps to get the Golden Visa programme
Golden Visa or residence by investment is a permit which is granted to international investors in exchange for an investment in real estate. The amount it varies depending on the country (Spain €500.000, Portugal €280.000 or Greece €250.000) but the steps to get the permit are very similar. In the next post, we are going…
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