Leveraging Opportunities In Investment Immigration

An investment immigration is a platform to access to global investment opportunities for discerning High-Net-worth Individuals (HNIs).

Speaking on this, the managing director/CEO of Optiva Capital Partners, Ms. Jane Kimemia states that, there is currently an increased incentive for investment immigration, second passport, second citizenship or permanent residency, for investment savvy Nigerians who recognise that these provide global access to boundless opportunities.

Kimemia further states that, Nigerians, being the most global of Africans seek global opportunities to meet the need for their children’s education, healthcare, access to more economies and markets to expand their trade and business. With a second citizenship through Citizenship By Immigration (CBI) or other investments in government designated programmes in exchange for permanent residency, for citizenship and global access, Kimemia states that, these not only give recipients global access, but they are also investments and savings.

According to her, “when it comes to the cost of CBI or permanent residency, the value being sought by clients include their wards’ education thereby making investment immigration a vehicle for clients to protect, to grow, to enhance, to diversify their wealth.

“For someone looking for permanent residency or to invest in a programme in Canada, their children’s education in a top flight University will cost 6,000 US Dollars per annum for a Bachelor’s degree programme as against an international student who will pay about 60,000 US Dollars annually,” she says.

Citing the example of her firm, she says, “At Optiva Capital Partners, we are helping our clients to save on what they would have been spending anyway.

Kimemia explained that, through second citizenship, Optiva Capital assists discerning Nigerians to save scarce foreign exchange because they pay a fraction of what non-citizens pay for education, healthcare, property, amongst other social benefits.”

For Greece, for instance, she says, obtaining a luxury apartment, is a gateway to obtaining the Greece golden visa which is not just an investment immigration scheme, it is also a way to diversify wealth.

To her, “For Canada, a Nigerian can become a global business person by investing in Canada Federal Start-up programme, migrate to Canada with a 3-year open work permit, while the person’s permanent residency is prioritized as an investor.”