Category Archives: 移民动态
旅外人士盛赞 台湾生活品质全球最佳
网站InterNations公布排行台湾 未在任一主要评分项目中拿到第一 但整体成绩胜过他国华盛顿31日综合外电报导 全球最大旅外人士网站InterNations公布2016年生活品质指数排行榜，台湾在上榜的67个国家中拔得头筹，获选为生活品质最佳侨居国家，主要原因是医疗品质好而且价格低廉。 InterNations访问了1万4300位旅外人士，询问他们对所居住过的191个国家的观感，请他们就侨居生活的43个不同面向评分，然后依此列出所谓「生活品质指数」，以总平均分数列出排名，结果台湾脱颖而出，在生活品质最优国家排行榜上勇夺第一。根据排行榜，第二至10名依序是奥地利、日本、西班牙、哥斯大黎加、马尔他、捷克共和国、新加坡、德国和瑞士。其中新加坡曾名列第一，但近年生活支出上扬，因此排名滑落至第八。台湾虽然未在任何主要项目中拿到第一名，但在所有项目中表现都不错，因此整体成绩胜过他国。调查报告中说，受访者中有令人吃惊的多达99％对在台湾的个人安全持肯定看法，也有89％表示很喜欢台湾的平静。台湾在医疗与福祉项目表现最佳，排名所有国家第二，仅次于奥地利。台湾更在这个项目下的医疗品质与价格低廉方面排名第一。调查也显示，没有受访者认为台湾的气候和天气很糟，而且有多达3/4持肯定态度。此外，台湾的外侨有多达91％对运输设施在整体上感到满意，远超过全球平均水准的63％。
Link: http://www.ksnews.com.tw/index.php/news/contents_page/0000949663
Rapid progress made on Cabrits Resort Kempinski in Dominica
Significant progress is evident at the Cabrits Resort Kempinski in Dominica
ROSEAU, Dominica — Over the past few years, the government of Dominica has given the green light for a number of projects under its citizenship by investment (CBI) programme aimed at developing the island’s tourism. The Cabrits Resort Kempinski Dominica is the most advanced and the only project under the CBI programme where any serious construction is underway.
The new resort is expected to be complete by the end of next year and, from a recent site inspection, this target appears achievable.
Construction on the Cabrits Resort Kempinski Dominica began in June last year, with completion of all the structural fabric of the buildings due this August. More than 200 workers are on site daily, with a significant majority from the local community.
“We are making excellent progress,” says Garry Swarbrick, senior project manager, Range Developments, the project’s sponsor. ”All the buildings have been set out, including the main building with the public areas and the nine accommodation units. It’s good to see how well the workforces are co-operating and pulling together.”
Set on the northwest of the island near to the country’s second largest town of Portsmouth, nothing on this scale has been built in Dominica since the Windsor Park cricket pitch ten years ago.
Developed by award-winning international property company Range Developments, the Cabrits Resort Kempinski was designed by Arcadia Design Architects. The building work is being carried out by contractor NH International (Caribbean) Ltd.
It will be run by Europe’s oldest luxury hotel group, Kempinski Hotels, which was founded in 1897 and manages a portfolio of 75 five-star hotels in 31 countries.
On completion, the resort in Douglas Bay will boast a 160-room hotel with a spa, and a selection of swimming pools, beach bars and restaurants.
Link: http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Rapid-progress-made-on-Cabrits-Resort-Kempinski-in-Dominica-33311.html
Government of Canada delivering faster processing and shorter wait times for spousal reunification
December 7, 2016 – Ottawa, ON – The Government of Canada is making it faster and easier for Canadians and permanent residents to reunite with their spouses.
At the direction of the Minister, earlier this year Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) began a concerted effort to reduce processing times. From the start of 2016 to the fall, processing times were reduced by 15 percent for in-Canada applications and just over 10 percent for applications outside Canada.
Starting today, processing times will be reduced even further with most spousal applications now being processed in 12 months. Complex cases may require more time.
Applicants who already filed an application will not have to wait an additional 12 months to have them finalized. IRCC will continue to process applications in the order they have been received. Most families who have been waiting should have a decision on their sponsorship application no later than the end of December 2017.
These new changes are expected to benefit more than 64 000 applicants by the end of 2017, and are the latest measures to bring families together.
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“We have listened to Canadians and are delivering results. Bringing families together makes for a stronger Canada. Canadians who marry someone from abroad shouldn’t have to wait for years to have them immigrate or be left with uncertainty in terms of their ability to stay. What we’re announcing today is a more efficient, more considerate process to reunite families.”
– The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Quick facts
- The application kit for new sponsors has been redesigned to be simpler and easier to understand. It will be available on December 15, 2016.
- To bring families together, IRCC plans to admit 64 000 spouses and dependants in 2017, well above the average over the past decade of about 47 000.
Link: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1166069
除了控股犇亚证券布局海外业务，玖富也开始做智能投顾了
9月8日，玖富集团在香港召开发布会，宣布战略控股犇亚证券亚洲，并正式更名为玖富证券。据玖富8月16日宣布获批的消息刚好过去23天。
犇亚证券成立于1989年，在香港拥有股票交易、资产管理、期货投顾等业务牌照资质。作为玖富香港的运营主体，玖富证券将开展互联网证券、智能投顾、全球资产管理等业务。
玖富战略控股券商犇亚证券是其布局海外业务的重要一步，据玖富创始人兼CEO孙雷透露，近期玖富还会投资美国硅谷一家区块链公司，进一步拓展海外业务。
数据显示，目前玖富用户规模超过3000万，移动端用户超过2800万。控股犇亚证券后，玖富旗下将包括智能理财、消费金融、网络借贷、互联网证券、资产管理、供应链金融、大数据征信评估等各大金融业务模块。
玖富收购犇亚证券布局海外，这消息并不新鲜。新鲜的是：玖富在布局海外的同时也开始研究智能投顾了。
据官方介绍，在智能投顾领域，玖富证券将与云量科技在技术和用户资源等方面进行合作。云量科技是国内一家量化投资服务平台，旗下有多款智能投顾产品，其中移动端APP股小量据称能对个股变盘拐点实现预警，准确率达73%。
为什么玖富要布局海外业务？
随着金融全球化和资本市场的开放、以及近期汇率波动等影响，国内投资者在全球范围内进行资产配置的需求日益强烈。数据显示，未来五年，中国个人境外资产配置比例将从目前的4.8%上升至9.4%，新增市场规模将达13万亿元人民币。
如此大的利益蛋糕，引来各大金融机构争相角逐海外资产配置市场，可是政策监管却依然很严。今年7月底，老虎证券、富途网络、积木股票等平台因未经批准开展境外证券交易服务被证监会点名。这样的情况下，玖富选择收购犇亚证券，获得牌照的做法的确是为了寻求合规的明智之举。
智能投顾谁能笑到最后？
对于现在依然被炒得很火的智能投顾，玖富进入得算是比较晚。目前这个领域的玩家既有老牌的财富管理平台如弥财、蓝海众筹等也有P2P平台转型的智能投顾产品如品钛旗下的璇玑和宜信旗下的投米RA。不过在众多的智能投顾玩家中，还没有独占鳌头的大咖出现。如今又迎来玖富这样一位重量级新玩家，智能投顾行业想必会更加热闹。
但是在人工智能、机器人理财的噱头之下，哪家公司能脱颖而出？
这就要看谁可以真真抓住智能投顾的核心技术—基于大数据的分析研判能力。
智能投顾的江湖，谁能笑到最后？现在还不得而知。
香港宜居度2年暴跌34位 台湾居首科威特包尾
全球旅外人士的资讯网站InterNations今日公布一项「城市宜居度」调查，香港在67个获评分的国家及城市中，由去年第26位跌至第44位，排名连续3年下跌，外借人士最不满香港生活指数高昂，同时难认识本地朋友以致难适应，而台湾则获评为最适合驻外人士生活的地方。
调查向全球1.4万名离乡别井「搵食」的旅外人士，就移居地点的宜居度进行统计，分别针对旅外人士对生活品质、个人财务、工作状况及家庭生活的满意度，进行统计评分，分析各地的宜居度，香港排名在前年仍位列第10位到今年已跌至第44位。香港的污染问题受外借人士关注，自然环境方面，本港评分排尾6，而内地更排包尾。生活指数高更令72%受访居港外借人士不满，令本港在相关项目的满意度评分排尾2；本港高昂的物价亦削弱薪金的吸引力，虽然57%受访者仍大致满意薪酬，但已较去年减少11个百分点。
调查又指出，香港工时之长位列调查第6位，受访旅居香港的外借人士每周工时为48.5小时，较全球平均的44.6小时高。同时，受访者认为香港人不太算是友善，近半人表示难在港认识朋友。香港在教育系统、交通及治安方面较令人满意，弥补了失分之处。
台湾在今年调查中，被评为最宜居地方。受访的外借人士认为，台湾有良好生活质素，其医疗系统的质素及价钱等方面都较为优胜，93%受访旅居台湾的外借人士对当地生活表示满意。地中海岛国马尔他的宜居度则排第2位、南美的厄瓜多尔则排第3，纽西兰及澳洲则分别排第5及第7；科威特的宜居度则在今次调查排包尾。
Nowadays the demand for immigration services has increased by many folds
Denny Ko
DIRECTOR / PRIMASIA METROPOLIS IMMIGRATION CONSULTING LIMITED
Denny’s Qualifications include Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists, The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, and Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council.
His firm specializes in High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth Individuals advisory services via the pool of knowledge and experiences of professional team members and the specialized services provided by affiliate sister companies. They can provide a bespoke service to each individual client on a solution driven approach because of the widened choice of jurisdictions and products associated with Citizenship and Residence planning.
Q: Denny, you’ve been working in immigration services for many years now. What are the major opportunities and limitations in the industry nowadays?
As the clients’ family structure and their main family business evolves, needs and wants for different family members became more complex and sophisticated, ranging from the traditional physical relocation from one place to another or merely obtaining an alternative citizenship or residence status for efficient asset management and tax planning, the demand for different solutions had increased by many folds even within one household; hence the increased opportunities for the practitioner.
The other side of the coin is of course, the increased opportunities calls for extensive knowledge in different disciplines such as fiscal policies, wealth and tax planning objectives and general rules and regulations, etc., in addition to the confinement of immigration laws and codes.
Q: Which country’s nationals are seeking a second nationality now?
Recent trend shows that the biggest output are from 3 primary regions, namely PR China, the CIS countries and the middle east/Africa.
Q: What immigration options are available to Chinese nationals?
Generally, Chinese nationals are not barred from applying for any available immigration programme merely by their nationality.
“Apart from visa free accessibility, the enhanced privacy and efficient offshore asset management are the primary reasons Chinese are seeking the second passport.”
Q: What are the primary reasons Chinese are seeking the second passport?
The most popular one would be the mobility reason, as a sound second passport would have a wide spectrum of visa free accessibility in terms of visiting different countries for its holder.
Another one is the enhanced privacy and efficient offshore asset management.
Some applicants also see the utility in foreign listing of their business; while others needed this for their children’s enrolment in international schools.
Q: It’s commonly understood that the Chinese nationals can’t be holding a dual citizenship, is this true?
Yes, like many other countries such as Singapore or Thailand, the Nationality Law of the People’s Republic of China prohibits multiple nationality.
Q: We all know that USA, Australia, Canada and UK have huge China Towns and used to be the most popular immigration destinations for years. Do you know how big is the Chinese diaspora abroad? What are the preferred destinations these years and why?
There are no official figures published for the population of settled Chinese in these countries.Furthermore, it is not easy to differentiate the percentage of Chinese settled in these countries are migrants vs those who were born there as descendants of earlier migrants.
The reasons as to why they have ended up settling at where they are now may be broadly divided into 2 reasons:
Involuntary – which goes back to the 19th century when these people were traded as labour workers or travelled the seas as merchants or mercenary and eventually settled;
Voluntary – where such modern migrants had chosen to settle in these jurisdictions for the advanced education system, sound quality of life and general personal freedom as a citizen.
Q: What’s your role in helping to bridge the demand and supply for immigrations services in China?
We do that at two different levels:
First, as our group company is also a developer of various luxury hotel projects such as the recently completed Park Hyatt Hotel Resort in St. Kitts and Nevis (now open for reservation at the Hyatt hotel group official website); as well as the Kempinski Hotel in the Commonwealth of Dominica; and these projects are qualified by the Government in the relevant jurisdiction as an approved investment project for the purpose of Citizenship by Investment application.Hence, we provide the mainland practitioners with the product for their clients.
Second, because of the scope of advisory service that I provide in addition to migration advices, namely trust and estate management, succession planning and related fiduciary services, I can better cover the clients’ needs in a more coherent and holistic approach as it is inevitable that the fiscal and other regulatory policies, in addition to the immigration requirements, are important factors that may affect the decision making process of today’s High Net Worth Individuals.
Q: What’s the biggest client case you worked on so far?
One of the bigger case in my earlier days was a PRC tycoon funded his own and 6 of his right/left/center hands’ families’ investor categories (at CAD$400,000 per family) so that his family can retain the personal service of these personnel when they physically relocate to Canada.
The contemporary incentive for business owners to retain key personnel may be by migration of their business to a more advantageous – such as Jack Ma of Alibaba in listing of the company in the USA and allocating his key managers with stock options and high value insurance policies – which is a model followed by some of my clients where we designed the corporate and asset holding structure in tandem with their relocation planning.
Q: You are living in Hong Kong, but working primarily with mainland Chinese. Which differences do you daily?
As mainland and Hong Kong are slowly integrated, especially in the regions where boundaries meets and eventually an equilibrium will be reached in terms of the way of life and the flow of commerce.
Though it is an important foundation that Hong Kong preserves its social values and judicial, administrative and executive independence; which is a factor favoured by foreign and mainland investors, corporations and individuals to choose to migrate and settle here and to bring in skills, experience, knowledge and prosperity.
Q: If you could complement the mainland Chinese people on 3 things, what would they be?
Pragmatic – result oriented; Efficient – in execution; Creative – in thinking outside the box
Q: Asia is the most dynamic market in the world now. How do you see the future of Asia in 20 years?
Albeit the slowdown in the economic growth rate in Asia over the recent crisis in 2003 and the global meltdown in 2008; it is on its way of recovery; which some countries acting as the driving force to pull the region out of the trough.
Furthermore, with the gradual liberation of the Chinese Yuan and the formation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, it will continue to play a major role in driving the world’s economy in the next 20 years and remain desirable for foreign financial and human capital to settle.
港人移民加拿大趋升 今年首季申请增17%
继港人移民台湾人数连续多年持续上升，港人移居加拿大的数目亦有上升趋势。有报道引述加拿大移民部最新资料显示，抵埗加拿大的香港移民于前年有708人，去年增至964人，增幅超过3成半；而于今年首3个月，已有300名港人抵埗加拿大，较去年同期的162人，增加超过8成；据报来自香港申请移民加拿大的人数于今年首3个月亦录得上升，由去年首3个月的296人，增加至今年1月至3月的345人，较去年同期增加17%。移民顾问关景鸿认为，抵埗加拿大的香港移民人数增加，未必与香港政局有关，因为港人移民当地需时，预料是技术移民居多，加上加拿大向来是受港人欢迎的移民国家，另外曾于当地读书或居住亦是吸引因素之一。立法会议员莫乃光指，移民加拿大港人数目增加，相信与香港社会气氛不好，以及政府施政不佳有关，其中教育政策更是屡遭质疑一环，因此有港人选择把子女送到外国读书，以致一家大细移民外地，实在不足为奇。 【on.cc东网专讯】
link: http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20160605/bkn-20160605231827200-0605_00822_001.html
Start-up visa continues to grow
May 5, 2016—Ottawa, ON – More immigrant entrepreneurs are coming to Canada through the Start-up Visa Program and the benefits are spreading growth and opportunity to middle-class families across the country.
As of May 2, 2016, 51 entrepreneurs had become permanent residents of Canada through the program, representing 26 start-ups that have launched or will be launching in communities across Canada, including Sydney, Halifax, Fredericton, Toronto, Mississauga, Waterloo, Thunder Bay, Calgary, Whistler, Vancouver and Victoria.
“The start-up visa started slowly but has steadily picked up steam,” Arif Virani, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, said today. “Every start-up that is established here has the potential to provide jobs and economic opportunity for Canadians, contributing to our country’s growth and diversity.”
The Start-up Visa Program is drawing successful applicants from a diverse range of countries, including Australia, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, India, Iran, South Africa and Uruguay, and across a number of industries, including technology, food product manufacturing, education, medical research, banking, human resources, and advertising.
This five-year pilot program allows entrepreneurs who have the support of a designated Canadian entity to apply for permanent residence as they establish their company in Canada. Demand for this program is growing, with more than 50 additional permanent resident applications still in process from entrepreneurs from around the world who have the support of a designated Canadian venture capital fund, angel investor group or business incubator to launch their start-ups in Canada.