The US has seen the creation of tens of thousands of jobs in the past eight years as a direct result of the investment of over 20,000 Chinese nationals, with about 35,000 jobs created by Chinese investment in fiscal year 2012 itself. Reports suggest that over half a million Chinese millionaires plan to leave their…
Canada’s 2011 census showed that 45% of Toronto’s total population of 5.6 million was foreign born. Compare that to Pittsburgh’s 4% foreign population and you have a good idea of the demographic divide in the two cities. There was a 16% increase in the number of immigrants arriving in Ontario (the province which houses Toronto)…
The Maltese government has still not specified the duration of time a person applying for the Individual Investor Program (IIP) must live in Malta in order to fulfil the one year residency requirement of the scheme. According to reports, the members of the IIP monitoring committee could not provide ‘satisfactory answers’ to the questions raised…
The fast-track route to permanent residence in the UK is going to become more expensive for potential investors following a Home Office order that has raised the minimum investment requirement to £2 million. Fast-track UK visas, which allow investors to settle in the UK in exchange for investments worth £1m, £5m or £10m in UK…
Deepak Gupta, a chemical engineer running the Applied Research and Innovation Centre at Centennial College in Toronto, is one of the 92,000 immigrants who moved to Canada from the United States between 2003 and 2012. Gupta grew up near Bangalore, India, leaving to pursue his PhD at Washington University, St. Louis in 1998. Thereafter he…