These are the best countries to invest in to acquire a second passport

We recently released a new report, a world first, which systematically analyses and benchmarks the world’s best countries for securing residence or citizenship, via a range of investments.

Our Global Residence and Citizenship Programs (GRCP) 2015 Report gauges and reflects the relative worth of residence and citizenship programs around the world. It analyses a broad range of factors such as immigration law, tax, and quality of living, as well as transparency, risk and compliance issues, from multiple sources to produce an overall global view and ranking of the different investment migration programs.

Henley & Partners pioneered the concept of residence and citizenship planning in the 1990s when it was considered to have little relevance, and since then it has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. Each year, hundreds of wealthy individuals, families and their advisors rely on Henley & Partners’ expertise and experience in this area, and as a result we have helped to secure $4billion direct investment for a number of countries around the world.

Programmes operate in countries such as Portugal, Malta, Cyprus and the Caribbean-island nations of St. Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda, among others.

While the Malta Individual Investor Programme (MIIP) is one of the more expensive citizenship options, it is widely considered the world’s most advanced and most exclusive citizenship-by-investment program, and it takes the top spot amongst the citizenship programs in the results of our research. Once you acquire citizenship in Malta, you have the right to choose to live or work or study in any of the 28 European Union (EU) countries – you become a European citizen.  

Of the residence programs reviewed, Portugal’s Golden Residence Permit Program emerged as the world’s best - followed by Austria and Belgium - for lighter tax burdens, cheaper overall cost, short processing time and quality of processing.

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