{"id":8018,"date":"2016-09-28T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2019-02-12T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:46:45","slug":"vietnamese-attracted-europes-investment-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/vietnamese-attracted-europes-investment-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese Attracted To Europe`s Investment Immigration Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wealthy Vietnamese citizens are being drawn to Europe to obtain residency or a second passport visa investment.<\/p>\n
Programs such as those in Malta, Cyprus and Portugal are attracting interest because of their quick approval, lack of physical presence requirement and lack of language requirement.<\/p>\n
Tightened regulations on the US EB-5 visa is a door closer for citizens of Vietnam.<\/p>\n
(Subject to review)<\/p>\n
While the process can take up to two years for a Vietnamese citizen to gain a US green card via the EB-5 program, European citizenship and permanent residency can be obtained as quickly as four months in some cases.<\/p>\n
Investment classes in Europe are also seen as simpler and safer than the US, where thresholds of either $500,000 or $1 million have to be met for new projects that create at least 10 jobs.<\/p>\n
In several cases the projects have fallen through, often leading to messy court cases.<\/p>\n
Once the citizenship or permanent residency has been approved, tax breaks are also a key incentive of the European programs.<\/p>\n
Wealthy Chinese remain overwhelming the top candidates for the world\u2019s investment programs, but high net worth individuals from all over Asia are also queuing up to obtain second citizenships.<\/p>\n
Malta Individual Investor Program<\/em><\/p>\n After approval, the applicant must<\/p>\n Portugal Golden Residence Investor Program<\/em><\/p>\n Capital Investment Jobs<\/strong> Real Estate<\/strong> Urban Rehabilitation<\/strong> Scientific Research and Development<\/strong> Promotion of Culture<\/strong> Small-Cap and Mid-Cap Finance<\/strong> Investment in Low Population Areas<\/strong> Further reading<\/b><\/p>\n Wealthy Vietnamese citizens are being drawn to Europe to obtain residency or a second passport visa investment. Programs such as those in Malta, Cyprus and Portugal are attracting interest because of their quick approval, lack of physical presence requirement and lack of language requirement. Tightened regulations on the US EB-5 visa is a door closer…<\/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-25k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018"}],"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=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/strong>Transfer of capital of minimum value of \u20ac1 million into Portugal including through purchase of shares in companies<\/p>\n
\nCreation of at least 10 new positions in Portugal<\/p>\n
\nPurchase of unencumbered real estate in Portugal of a minimum value of \u20ac350,000. Co-ownership or purchase of property through finance is permissible provided each individual makes a mandatory minimum investment of \u20ac350,000.<\/p>\n
\nInvestment of at least \u20ac350,000 in constructed 30 years ago or investment for rehabilitation of properties located in Urban Rehabilitation Areas<\/p>\n
\nInvestment of at least \u20ac350,000 in R&D activities of institutions that are part of the national technological system.<\/p>\n
\nInvestment of at least \u20ac250,000 towards financing of bodies pursuing cultural or artistic activities or towards renovation or maintenance of cultural heritage.<\/p>\n
\nInvestment of at least \u20ac500,000 towards purchase of units of small-cap or mid-cap venture capital funds.<\/p>\n
\n20 per cent reduction in minimum investments in the above-mentioned categories when investment is made in a low population-density area.<\/p>\n
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