An investment immigration wealth management firm, Optiva Capital Partners has restated its commitment to facilitate access to global investment opportunities for discerning High-Net-worth Individuals (HNIs).
This, it said, is consistent with its drive to support Nigerians to grow their wealth.
Speaking at an interactive session with journalists yesterday, the managing director/CEO of Optiva Capital Partners, Jane Kimemia stated 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.
According to her, “our clients are established Nigerians, they are in business, they are executives, so they are very comfortable, but they are looking for global access and acceptance.”
Kimemia further stated 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.
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.
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 emphasised that these not only give recipients global access, but they are also investments and savings.
Jane Kimemia further explained why Optiva Capital Partners investment immigration services are targeted at High Networth Individuals (HNIs).
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 stressed.
She enthused that, at Optiva Capital, “we are helping our clients to save on what they would have been spending anyway, so we are saving them the scarce foreign exchange that comes back in developing Nigeria. So we are looking at value, costs, and value across generations as well.”
To provide the premium investment immigration services their HNI clientele deserve, Optiva Capital Partners CEO, Ms. Jane Kimemia, stressed that the company has made conscious decisions to be “where our clients are, and to meet our clients at homes and where they do business, and their offices. Optiva Capital currently has seventeen branches across the country in Lagos, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Warri, Kano, Abuja, and Onitsha.”
According to her “wherever you go across key markets, you find Optiva Capital Partners. We have a strong extensive distribution and we have invested in our branches and lounges because we do recognise that our clients are high-networth individuals and we take into consideration how we take care of our clients in all our branches.”
Additionally, she said, Optiva Capital’s expanding points of sale aligns with its strategy to extend its edge in investment immigration through an operational process which she described as being ‘detailed on documentation and full disclosure.”
She emphasised that, “one of the things we do very well at Optiva Capital Partners is the ability to handle that process, right from origination. We have fully developed our process, a fully dedicated process centre, which has access to 50 to 60 people at once, and we have a team that can help us talk to clients in a very holistic way.
“Some of Optiva Capital’s investment immigration opportunities it assists Nigerians to be part of include the USA EB, Residency by Investment, which not only accelerates wealth creation but also open doors to a promising future, offering the opportunity to become a green card holder; citizenship by investment programmes for which acquiring a passport from any of the countries on their menu provides visa-free access to more than 143 countries, all without the need to meet any residency criteria before obtaining them,” she pointed out.
For Greece, for instance, she said, 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 program, migrate to Canada with a 3-year open work permit, while the person’s permanent residency is prioritized as an investor.”
Today, he noted that, Optiva Capital Partners prides itself as the largest provider of investments immigration services not only in Nigeria but across Africa, and also the largest employer of labour in the investment immigration subsector with 17 branches distributed across Nigeria and over 1, 000 full-time employees. In partnership with its reputable international affiliates the company has helped many families with their immigration and global access needs over the years and “has always done this with utmost diligence and professionalism
