Golden visa schemes that offer residency rights to foreigners in exchange for investments. The whole industry is expected to generate around $10 billion annually.
The popular investment options are real estate, government debts or bonds and business. Property buyers and investors are not required to permanently live in the country.
United Kingdom, Canada, and United States have the oldest RBI/immigrant investor schemes in the world since the 1990’s
We did a quick study on the volume of total investments received by these schemes since the inception
- RBI/Golden visa schemes pumped $81 billion into countries offering these schemes
- The US, Canada and Australia emerge as leading investment destination for immigrant investors.
- The US alone received almost half of the investment (over $35 billion) among all the countries running such schemes.
- European countries received some $24 billion all the countries combined.
- UK received £4.7 billion investment through investor visa scheme.
- Cyprus received biggest investment in Europe more than Portugal
US/Canada: $47 billion
Europe: $24 billion
Australia/New Zealand: $9.5 billion
| Inception | Total Investment | Â US Dollars | |
| United States | 1990 | $35.5 billion | $35.5B |
| Canada | 1986 | C$16.0 billion | $12.1B |
| Australia | 2012 | A$ 10.1 billion | $7.45B |
| United Kingdom | 1994 | £4.7 billion | $6B |
| Portugal | 2012 | €4.0 billion | $4.5B |
| Greece | 2014 | €1.0 billion | $1.1B |
| Spain | 2013 | €3.0 billion | $3.4B |
| New Zealand | 2009 | N$ 2.9 billion | $2B |
| Ireland | 2012 | €0.2 billion | $0.23B |
| Malta | 2014 |  €1.0 billion | $1.1B |
| Cyprus | 2013 | €4.8 billion | $5.4B |
| Latvia | 2010 | €1.9 billion | $2.1B |
| Bulgaria | 2009 | €0.17 billion | $0.20B |
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