Immigration Hotspots Stand Apart <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThere are countries that struggle to attract investor attention despite offering a second passport for just $100,000. And there are countries like the US likely to remain the preferred destination for wealthy investors and ambitious professionals despite the investment hike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The EB-5 is one of the few investment immigration programs to impose a job-creation requirement on investors. Despite the perception that investors prefer passive investments over all other options, demand for the US EB-5 has grown steadily over the years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia\u2019s revamped Significant Investor Visa prohibits direct investment into residential real estate and further requires investors to allocate a fixed percentage of their $5 million investment into venture capital and startup-centric funds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contrary to doomsday predictions, the SIV program has not collapsed and continues to garner investor interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Canada is such a popular option that it can impose tough conditions and requirements and still attract investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The H-1B Factor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe US H-1B program, which has been completely dominated by Indians, is a work permit program aimed at skilled and highly-qualified foreign professionals. Over the past few years, especially after President Donald Trump was elected, the program has been the target of negative administrative decisions and adverse legal rulings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The uncertainty around the H-1B visa is considered an important factor contributing to surge in Canada permanent residence applications by Indian professionals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
EB-5 applications by Indian investors surged even as the H-1B chaos grew. Currently, India is the third country facing EB-5 retrogression after China and Vietnam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Would not Canada gain by offering such highly-skilled and wealthy professionals an additional route to Canadian permanent residence? The revived program could be tailored to focus on active investments into businesses to create real value benefits for the Canadian economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the American dream turning sour for immigrants, Canada stands to gain everything and lose nothing by reviving its investment immigration program. If demand remains low or the benefits don\u2019t materialize, the program can always be shut down again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the US hiking investment limits for the EB-5, is it time to for Canada to revive the suspended Canada Immigrant Investor Program? As the US implements a massive 80 per cent hike in minimum investments for the EB-5 program, it is an appropriate time to question the rationale behind Canada\u2019s decision to completely ignore…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55856,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[347,115,454],"tags":[4030],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Investment-Immigration_257756024.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hnWW-eyC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55962"}],"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=55962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}