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How long does the stamping usually take these days? Do they take the passport and you sit and wait or it's more like you go somewhere and get it done?

I asked one of the biggest law firms in Malta and they said it's not the case, it's 6 months and from there you can get it in less if you have ties (company, house, family in Malta etc)

Easy, the countries you mentioned are corrupt AF (maybe UK not but doubt it). Every lawyer you meet is probably in a direct or a few connections away from the president etc.

They measure bulls**t like "democracy", freedom of speech, gay rights etc. Australia, Canada, seriously? What we are interested in are I assume: - Is my property or money going to get nationalized - Are they going to chase me for tax when I spend some time there or leave - are they going...

What countries do you think will be the last bastions of personal freedom?

Do you mean the investor doesn't have a salary from a FZ company? But can have foreign salary?

Was company registration 2 years visa before?

So if the OP plans to stay in Australia for foreseeable future he cannot go with the Cat F visa and get citizenship because he needs to stay physically in Cyprus for both residency renewal reasons and citizenship.

Wouldn't you have to stay for majority of the year in Cyprus to renew cat F visa? Also to qualify for citizenship you need 5x365 days I believe, so it's not 5 years on paper.

The question is, is it worth stepping in the "Infernal alliance" as a non-EU citizen? It makes sense for EU citizen to go to Malta/Cyprus etc but for a non-EU it's more difficult to get residency and you get all the bulls**t that comes with it like safe-passes, soon digital ID and whatnot. I...

Good to know about Saxobank! I've heard that you can deposit to ibkr from Wise using their direct debit option. Does Swiss quote give you Iban too? @BlueMist Good to know about Finductive. Did you send to or receive from Wise by any chance? When did you open with Bank of Cyprus? As a...

Yeah I hear you on Malta and trust :/ Do you think Wise would consider Finductive as related to crypto or gambling? My lawyer in Malta said he knows Finductive founders so that's a bit of assurance on that at least. I'm also thinking to open IBKR for the Ltd or other brokers and just send it...

I only have Wise with Malta Ltd. Would you trust Finductive and Fexserv with mid 6 figure sums? Also how does Wise treat transfers to other EMIs? Do they know it's an EMI based on Iban or something? I'm thinking would they get all finicky if they know it's another EMI.

Where was the company incorporated, I didn't catch that part? Whats OPs citizenship / residency? I guess it all plays a part in the risk profile. Not defending Wise, but it's like with any bank, some people love HSBC some say it's a scam. I'd be mad AF if they closed my account too without any...

Agree but what options are there that are tax friendly + have decent banking? I literally can't think of any.

Cool, appreciate your thoughts. This is getting beyond the topic of bullionstar but if any of you want to make a new topic we can move it there.

Surely SG GDP doesn't come from offshore industry and its not even considered an offshore place (like UAE or HK I guess). But I'd love to hear about the alternative jurisdictions you think are better long term

Good topic but missing some context, like if you write second flag: Luxembourg, what is that, citizenship, residency, bank account? Also the reasoning behind why that particular country / jurisdiction etc. Also are we talking about an ideal setup or our current one? Anyway, here's my ideal one...

I get SG is not far from UAE when it comes to dictatorship, but why do we all prefer to keep money in SG banks of all countries? Also name me one government with logical thinking and good implementation. :/ If you have lenient KYC, off it goes to gray/black list. As far as kyc with bullionstar...

Eu is a pretty broad term bit generally you should be able to open an account with interactive brokers.