Immigration Gossip - How to get Green Card, Citizenship of US, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Australia ?

=>In the UK, citizenship comes with an investment of £750,000 (about $1.5 million or a little over Rs 6 crore). In the US, $500,000 (Rs 2 crore) will get you and your family citizenship, for New Zealand a million New Zealand dollars (Rs 3 crore). In Australia, there is no minimum investment stipulated. However, a commitment to start a business within four years will do the trick. In the case of Canada, the stipulated minimum investment that gets you automatic citizenship is 400,000 Canadian dollars or about Rs 1.4 crore. However, a major Canadian bank, Desjardins — with assets of $130 billion and ranked 92nd internationally — has come up with its own scheme under which it will finance around 70% of the amount if the investor makes a down payment of 30%. That means just Rs 45 lakh will do to get you Canadian citizenship.
Desjardins’ offer - The bank provides a scheme under which one needs to deposit only C$120,000 with the bank. The bank will finance the remaining C$280,000 to file the application for permanent residency (which entitles you to citizenship after two years) in Canada. The C$400,000 are invested in interest-free Canadian government bonds. After five years, when the government returns the money, the bank will keep all of it. In effect, the C$120,000 you pay upfront becomes the interest earned by the bank on the C$280,000 that it lends you to file the application. (source - The Times of India)

=>To curb visa fraud in India, US Embassy is taking tough steps like - biometric samples and electronic images of a person's face, two fingerprints and fingerprints of all 10 digits.

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