About Henley & Partners
The production of this report has been made possible by the generous sponsorship of Henley & Partners – the global leader in residence and citizenship planning.
The concept of residence and citizenship planning was created by Henley & Partners in the 1990s, at a time when most international lawyers and wealth planning professionals did not consider the subject to be of much relevance.
Over the years, Henley & Partners has emerged as the world’s leading firm specializing and focused in this particular area of practice. International residence and citizenship planning has itself become a major topic among the increasing number of internationally mobile entrepreneurs, as well as many wealthy individuals and families, who are interested in looking at alternative residence and citizenship solutions.
Lawyers such as Christian H. Kälin, as well as many others, developed the discipline together with an entire group of specialists who now work at Henley & Partners. The firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Eric G. Major, who formerly built the most important Canadian immigrant investor business at HSBC, is another guiding light in the area of global residence and citizenship planning.
Today, individua clients as well as advisors and law firms worldwide rely on Henley & Partners for specialized advice and assistance in this delicate area where its expertise and experience are second to none.
The firm’s renowned Residence and Citizenship Practice Group advises private clients and their close advisors on investor immigration and citizenship solutions. Henley & Partners is in contact with the government authorities of all relevant countries and constantly monitors the worldwide situation. The firm also assists in designing, implementing and operating investor immigration programs and gives relevant advice to governments.
Two of the most recent mandates are from Antigua and Barbuda, where Henley & Partners acted as a special advisor to design, implement and administer the citizenship-by-investment program for this country; and Malta, where Henley & Partners won a public call for services and were awarded a Public Services Concession for the design, implementation and international promotion of the Malta Individual Investor Programme.
Besides advising clients on the possibilities of acquiring resident status, permanent residence and citizenship-by-investment, members of the Planning Group advise them on the (re-) acquisition of citizenship based on ancestry as well as on residence planning for private clients with a view to post-immigration citizenship acquisition.
Residence planning for private clients involves finding solutions for individuals and families who move internationally, own property in different countries and who often have complex international situations and requirements. Our combined services cover not only immigration and citizenship law, but also international private law, real estate structuring and more.
For many years, Henley & Partners has organized the Global Residence and Citizenship Conference, which is the most important such event in the world. It is held annually in November in different locations each year. To view the program of the next conference and for early registration discounts, please visit henleyglobal.com/events
Impact
Henley & Partners typically advises very wealthy individuals and families, successful entrepreneurs and investors, top-level managers, artists, and celebrities. Without a doubt, we and our clients are among the most privileged people in the world.
An important distinguishing feature of our firm is our substantial commitment to help those who are less fortunate. This commitment dates back to its roots and is today expressed mainly through the Henley & Partners Foundation. It operates quietly but very effectively.
While several of the firm’s partners are themselves involved in important philanthropic work, for many years Henley & Partners as a firm hascommitted large parts of its yearly global profits to support humanitarian projects. This substantial commitment is further strengthened by the fact that all projects benefit directly from it and are administered by volunteers within the firm or associates in the countries where we operate. Furthermore, several of our clients have become important sponsors of our projects. Most of the projects are focused on helping children in need. For example, more than 120 million children around the world are without any formal education or schooling, and many more have only very limited access to education. With rare exceptions, they never have the chance to improve their lives, and those children who are born poor tend to die poor. We therefore believe that one of the most significant contributions we can make to humankind is to help those who cannot help themselves, in particular underprivileged children.
We also fund other significant projects of local, national or international importance, such as youth entrepreneurship initiatives, reforestation, and our partnership with UNHCR. We support UNHCR’s global refugee registration activities with a contribution of over USD 1 million and further advocacy to assist UNHCR’s resource mobilization efforts.
To learn more about our humanitarian initiatives, or to support them, please email [email protected]
About this Report
Global Residence and Citizenship Programs 2016 provides a comprehensive, systematic analysis and benchmarking of the world’s most relevant investor immigration and citizenship-by-investment options.
Henley & Partners, together with a distinguished panel of independent experts – immigration and citizenship lawyers, economists, country risk experts, academic researchers and other specialists – has created the Global Residence Program Index and the Global Citizenship Program Index as part of the report. These two Indexes gauge and reflect the relative worth of residence and citizenship programs around the world. They analyze a broad range of factors to produce an overall global view and ranking of the different investment migration programs on offer.
These Indexes are highly relevant to all those interested in alternative residence or citizenship options, but also for industry professionals, private client advisors and others with an interest in the subject, as well as governments of countries who operate such programs.
The report, which will be updated annually, includes systematic analysis of factors such as immigration law, tax, and quality of living, as well as transparency, risk and compliance issues, across the following specific areas for each of the Indexes:
Global Residence Program Index (GRPI)
