Monthly Archives: March 2014

Citizenship - Portugal

Portugal is known to be a Safe country but the Good News are it is becoming Safer

 

Safety in Portugal

In general terms Portugal is very well known to be a safe country, where you are able to walk out on the street without having fears that something might happen to you. The good news is that Violent Criminality reduced by 9.5% since last year.

According to the Annual Internal Security Report (RASI) presented yesterday in Lisbon, there is a record of less 2143 cases from violent criminality in 2013 compared to 2012. The general criminality reduced by 6.9%  with less 27.375 cases registered in Police Stations.

For Golden Visa Investors which are considering Portugal as a possibility to obtain residence permit and citizenship by investment, it is clear that Portugal has a main focus as one of the safest countries in Europe and where situation is nice, you can easily walk on the street any time of the day and situation is only getting better.

You are welcome to visit Portugal and enjoy the best of our safety environment. Most of all construction developments are all without security guards or private compounds. Situation is so safe and reliable that it makes no sense to be creating private areas. Living in freedom and without fear is on of the top conditions to live a happy life.

 

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Citizenship - Portugal, Golden Visa

Vice-Prime Minister confirms 772 Investors Visa granted till now and only 11 rejections

 

Investor Visa | Golden Visa | Paulo Portas Vice Prime Minister PortugalVice-Prime Minister Paulo Portas confirmed that 772 Investors Visa have been already granted and so far they have only made 11 rejections. This leaves the rejection rate at very low levels such as less than 2%.

From those 11 rejections 7 were dependents which have seen their residence permit not granted by the fact they could not meet the criteria. From the remaining 4 investors which could not see their application approved, most of the issues are related to criminal record or lack of documents to confirm that investment have been performed.

After reviewing this numbers, it is easy to conclude that this Investors Program so far is being a big success and that the quality of applicants is really high. It is clear that this program will stay for longer period since the foreign investment amount that this is bringing to Portugal is substantial.

From all the applicants Chinese are still almost 80% (612) of the applicants for this program. Vice-Prime Minister Paulo Portas is making a big effort to market this program in different countries to diversify the foreign investment for Portugal.

464 million euro have already been invested in Portugal. Most of the applicants choosing the option of Real Estate as their preferred investment option. Only 4 persons have choose the option of creating a company and less than 40 the possibility of depositing 1.000.000 Euro in a Bank account.

Due to high demand of applicants that are willing to start this program, the Immigration Office is already taking a longer time to approve the applications.

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Why Rich Ukranian are now moving assets to Portugal ?

Rich Ukranian are now moving to Portugal for Golden Visa

Ukrainian started immigration to Portugal in 2001 becoming the biggest immigration nationality around 2003, being one of the biggest immigrant nations in Portugal in the last decade. In 2003 more than  64.695 legal Ukrainian were working legally in Portugal with estimation of another 20.000 working illegally.  This numbers at that time represented more than 15% of total number of immigrants in Portugal.

At that time, only Ukrainian with difficult economic conditions were moving their life to Portugal, most of those immigrants they were well educated and working in different fields other than their education expertise. The links between Ukraine and Portugal have become quite close and it became usual to find Ukrainian immigrants all over Portugal in the most variety of positions.

Now the world has changed, conditions in Ukraine in the last years have improved a lot, several immigrants returned to their country (2006 only 40.000 Ukrainian legally working in Portugal) and it became less interesting to live and work in Portugal. The world changes so fast that nowadays only Rich Ukrainian are moving to Portugal, specially those who are looking for safety area to live, moving out of a possible conflict that can generate a big war and securing their assets all over the world.

Being surrounded by sun and clean blue sky is one of the biggest attractions that rich Ukrainian identify in Portugal. Those who decided to live Ukraine to obtain their Golden Visas are expected to become Portuguese within next 6 years. Now they count with a big local community of Ukrainian immigrants, specialty food stores with Ukrainian products and lots of different traditions already integrated into our society.

Portugal is fully open to all Ukrainian that want to obtain Golden Visas to run away from the recent conflicts that can last for a long period. If you wish to know details, you are welcome to get in contact with us.

For those who wish to find detailed information about Ukrainian immigration to Portugal please check this link.

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