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Trump's $5 Million Golden Visa Most Expensive Yet
Uncle Sam will welcome you if you are a Millionaire - President Trump makes an offer - Gold Card Visa for $5 Million, a route towards Citizenship.
Is it a Golden Pass for more Rich Indians? Parikshit Luthra speaks to author & LSE news professor Kristin Surak & Rohit Bharadwaj of Henley Partners.
President Donald Trump’s ‘gold card’ citizenship program
Kristin Surak joins the podcast to discuss Trump’s ‘gold card’ plan, building on the insights from her book, The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires. Tune in for an in-depth conversation on global mobility and its implications.
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires
The first comprehensive on-the-ground investigation of the global market for citizenship, examining the wealthy elites who buy passports, the states and brokers who sell them, and the normalization of a once shadowy practice.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy citizenship abroad
When you think of high-end luxury commodities, you might imagine yachts, private jets, or even whole islands. But in the last few years, another commodity has started to receive a lot of attention from the world’s wealthiest people: citizenship.
Do Passports Pay Off? Assessing the Economic Outcomes of Citizenship by Investment Programs
Does the sale of citizenship bring positive economic benefits? To answer this question, this article draws on a new database, alongside nine years of qualitative research, to dissect the economic dynamics and outcomes of the programs.