Alberta’s provincial government will develop a new immigration strategy including two entrepreneur streams to help plug labour market gaps and create jobs. The Alberta Advantage Immigration Strategy, highlighted in the recently-released provincial budget, will include a new Foreign Graduate Entrepreneur Program alongside the new Startup Visa Stream. Both will work alongside the Alberta Immigrant Nominee…
Demand for Australia’s Significant Investor Visa program is beginning to rise with a 24 percent and 4.4 percent jump in a number of applications and total investments respectively for 2018-19. Slow Recovery Since 2015 In July 2015, Australia modified the SIV by mandating how investors must allocate the minimum $5 million investment into different asset…
Despite total investment falling by more than 11 percent in 2019 as compared to the previous year, Portugal still netted more than €740 million from wealthy foreign investors applying to its golden visa program. In all, Portugal issued 1,245 golden visas to investors and more than 2,000 visas to their dependent family members. While annual…
A new draw through Saskatchewan’s popular Entrepreneur Stream will take place on Thursday, March 5. The draw will be the second of 2020, and the second since the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) changed the way it selects Entrepreneur Stream candidates. The first draw of 2020 took place on January 7 and saw 42 invitations…
The St. Lucia Citizenship by Investment Program enjoyed a good year in 2019 after becoming the latest to enter the highly-competitive market in the Caribbean region. The program saw a 12 percent increase in approvals along with a 120 percent jump in total investments in 2018-19 compared to the previous year. St Lucia CIP In…