Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Two Citizenship Programs are Changing" video.

  1. The one thing everyone seems to always mention is "not enough due diligence". I wonder, what else can they do to have more due diligence? All programs require: * Police checks from the countries you've lived in for the last 10yrs (for more than a few months) * Proof of source of funds (AML/KYC - i.e. if its from a bank in a "western country" then its already proven legit, fully taxed and the AML/KYC info is already available due to govt information sharing) * A pointless letter from the bank that says you're a customer (bank references prove nothing if you've never been in overdraft or bankrupt - Australian banks won't issue these unless you've been in overdraft or bankrupt) * Declarations that you're not a criminal They already check law enforcement databases and INTERPOL databases. There's basically nothing else to check. The whole due diligence is basically a process that takes the govt a couple of hours (at the most) to do. All due diligence seems to be is a way for "name brand" countries to bully smaller countries and to justify stalling the whole process for a few months as from the govt side of things isn't anything beyond what I've just mentioned.
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  2. As long as the passport is legal and activated (i.e. when scanned it appears as "VALID" & "ACTIVATED" in the passport system) you won't have any issue (unless you are missing some required visa or didn't submit everything they required). Only citizens of a country can hold that countries passport. Sure they issue citizenship under a few categories but its still citizenship at the end of the day - no different to any other program. In modern times the only time anything will be inserted or stamped into a passport is if a country still does physical entry and/or exit stamping (very few still do this) or if you get a visa (almost all visas are still physically installed/stuck/stamped).
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  3.  @HoDLum  those aren't passports, they're known as a Laissez-Passer and are only given to the people you mention. Passports are only issued to citizens. Laissez-Passer don't enable one to travel freely, they actually limit the countries by listing them on a page as only countries that have agreements on Laissez-Passer accept them.
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