{"id":4234,"date":"2015-06-10T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:28:44","slug":"australia-announces-new-investor-visa-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/australia-announces-new-investor-visa-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Announces New Investor Visa Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"
Australia has announced a new framework for their Significant Investor Visa (SIV), while also introducing a new Premium Investor Visa (PIV) which will provide a fast-track to permanent residency in Australia.<\/p>\n
The new frameworks are part of the Australian Government’s Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda to increase the investment in innovative Australian start-ups and emerging companies. \u00a0\u00a0The new rules take effect on July 1, 2015.<\/p>\n
The new framework prevents SIV applicants from investing the required minimum $5 million into passive investments, such as real estate and government bonds. Instead, the investment must consist of:<\/p>\n
The new rules prohibit loan arrangements where SIV applicants use their investments as collateral.<\/p>\n
The Premium Investor Visa (PIV) is aimed at talented entrepreneurs and innovators who are willing to invest a minimum of $15 million in eligible investments. The PIV covers a greater range of investment options than the SIV, with direct investment in companies and financial products being allowed. The PIV also provides a one year fast-track route to Australian permanent residency.<\/p>\n
Applications for the SIV have been suspended since 24 April, 2015, for the purpose of preparing the new frameworks.<\/p>\n
Source<\/strong>: Mondaq.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia has announced a new framework for their Significant Investor Visa (SIV), while also introducing a new Premium Investor Visa (PIV) which will provide a fast-track to permanent residency in Australia. The new frameworks are part of the Australian Government’s Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda to increase the investment in innovative Australian start-ups and emerging…<\/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":[454],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hnWW-16i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234"}],"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=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}