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Viru · Group
Sovereign Advisory · Bahrain
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Practice / Citizenship & Residency

Second citizenship,
filed by counsel.

We run CBI and RBI files across the Caribbean, Türkiye, and selected EU member states. We do not market programmes. We file them, and only after we are satisfied the principal is the right candidate, the route is the right one, and the dossier will read well to the agent receiving it.

— The Position

Mobility is a structural asset.

For most of the principals we work with, picking up a second nationality (or a residency that leads to one) is the largest structural decision they will make in a ten-year window. It moves tax position, succession, banking, treaty access, and how easily the next ten years of travel work.

We do not have a programme to sell. We look at the principal, look at the field, and recommend the route. Sometimes that is one passport. More often it is a paired plan: residency in one country, citizenship in another, taken in sequence over three or four years.

The file itself is prepared and submitted by local counsel of record in the issuing state. The firm holds the timeline and the diligence and stays in front of the agent. The principal signs once, wherever it suits them to sign.

— Programme Schedule

Routes, thresholds, indicative timing.

Indicative as of 2026. Programme terms and thresholds are amended periodically by issuing states; the firm tracks each at the file level.
Jurisdiction Route Minimum (USD) Timing Outcome
St Kitts & Nevis SISC contribution 250,000 6 — 9 months Citizenship · family included
Grenada NTF contribution · E-2 access 235,000 6 — 10 months Citizenship · US E-2 treaty route
Dominica EDF contribution 200,000 5 — 8 months Citizenship · the conservative file
Antigua & Barbuda NDF · family premium 230,000 5 — 9 months Citizenship · large families
Türkiye Real-estate route 400,000 4 — 6 months Citizenship · liquid timing
Portugal Fund & cultural routes 500,000 12 — 24 months Residency · path to citizenship in five years
Greece Golden visa · real estate 800,000 8 — 14 months Residency · Schengen access
Malta MPRP · permanent residence 375,000 — 800,000 8 — 14 months Permanent residency · Schengen access
Cyprus Residency by investment 350,000 3 — 6 months Residency · favourable tax regime
— Process

From eligibility to naturalisation.

  1. 01
    Eligibility
    A private review. Nationality, current residency, family setup, where the money comes from, any application that did not go through somewhere before. We position the principal against the field before any country is named.
  2. 02
    Programme selection
    A short memorandum, written in plain English, comparing two or three routes that fit. Threshold, timing, tax position after, our recommendation. The choice is the principal's. The recommendation is direct.
  3. 03
    Diligence
    Source of funds, background checks, references both professional and personal, anything to disclose about a prior file. We build the dossier to the standard the agent will apply, not the standard the principal expects.
  4. 04
    Submission
    Local counsel files. The firm sits between the agent, the counsel, and the principal, and is the one address all three send their questions to.
  5. 05
    Approval
    Approval comes through. The contribution is paid or the property is completed, the oath is taken if the country requires one, and the document is issued. We arrange the travel when the oath has to be sworn in person.
  6. 06
    Continuity
    After the passport or card is in hand, the file does not close. We track renewals, presence days, tax-residency reviews, and the path from residency to citizenship when that path is the plan.
— Selected Mandates

Anonymised, representative.

2020
A coordinated Türkiye–Caribbean architecture.
A Gulf principal wanted two things from one plan: visa-free travel for the whole family, and a path into the US for himself. We took a Türkiye real-estate citizenship for the family, and a Grenada contribution for the principal alone (Grenada has the E-2 treaty with the US, the family programmes do not). Two files, one calendar, two passports.
Family of fiveUSD 635k combinedEleven months end-to-end
2022
Portugal residency for a European entrepreneur.
A European founder leaving a high-tax country picked the Portuguese fund route. We handled the licensed-fund subscription, the filing with Lisbon counsel, and the NHR / IFICI positioning with the Portuguese accountants. The principal's residence was cleared well before the end of the year he moved.
Single applicantEUR 500k fund routeSeventeen months to residence
2024
A second file, after a prior refusal elsewhere.
The principal had been turned down by a different programme, on documentary grounds rather than anything substantive. We took the dossier apart and built it back. Source of funds reconstructed from the bank statements, references re-collected, the prior refusal disclosed in full. We filed into Dominica. It was approved on first reading.
Single applicantUSD 200k contributionSeven months
— Operating Channels

Three houses in market. One counsel of record.

Global · Programme Index
citizenshipnetwork.com

The firm's master index of citizenship-by-investment and residency programmes — programme schedules, threshold tracking, and the entry point for qualified inquiries.

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English-facing · Editorial
becomeglobalcitizen.com

An editorial channel for principals weighing the structural case for second citizenship. Written in plain English, pitched at the post-graduate reader.

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Türkiye · Real-estate Route
easyturkishcitizenship.com

A dedicated channel for the Türkiye real-estate route — USD 400k threshold, four-to-six-month timing, coordinated with the Real Estate pillar where appropriate.

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— A House Note

A passport is a state document. It names a person, and the file that produces it is read by an official whose job is to look for the wrong kind of detail. We write every file as though it will be read twice, because some of them are.

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