{"id":3951,"date":"2015-05-07T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:55:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:55:46","slug":"instability-in-the-middle-east-causes-many-to-seek-second-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/instability-in-the-middle-east-causes-many-to-seek-second-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Instability in the Middle East Causes Many to Seek Second Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growing trade in &#8216;economic citizenship&#8217; around the world is being driven by a surge in demand for second passports, with thousands of people from politically unstable countries in the Middle East such as Egypt and Syria investing several hundred thousand dollars to secure passports of countries that offer safety, security, and visa-free travel worldwide. There are currently around 20 countries that offer citizenship by investment schemes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/world\/middle-east\/passport-for-sale-instability-in-the-middle-east-leaves-many-seeking-second-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source: National<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing trade in &#8216;economic citizenship&#8217; around the world is being driven by a surge in demand for second passports, with thousands of people from politically unstable countries in the Middle East such as Egypt and Syria investing several hundred thousand dollars to secure passports of countries that offer safety, security, and visa-free travel worldwide.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hnWW-11J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}