This means that clients have no risk when applying for their EU residence permit.

“Pakistan is a friendly country with which we want to develop economic, political and cultural cooperation. Minister Nikolay Mladenov summarize the significance of his visit to Islamabad – the first of its kind in the history of Bulgarian-Pakistani relations.  He also thanked the Pakistani government’s efforts to stabilize the region, which has higher costs, including expression in human casualties.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gillani, also expressed his gratitude for Bulgaria’s support for flood victims at the end of last summer. He also confirmed that Bulgaria’s support for Pakistan’s exports to the EU was highly appreciated .  The parties agreed also to urge the import/export exchange between the two countries. This will boost the business and the travel of businessmen between the countries.

Nikolay Mladenov also signed an agreement  for Economic Cooperation with Pakistan and have met ambassadors from EU  countries in Islamabad, to inform them of the results of the visit.

The above visit shows that the investments between the two countries will be supported on a governmental level. Pakistani businessmen who want to invest in Bulgaria, can benefit of the low taxation (down to 0%) and also can get permanent residence or long-term residency, because of the state guaranteed  benefits to foreign investors.

1. Low level investment programme – We offer small investor program for obtaining long-term residency. If you invest at least 50,000 Euros in real estate sector in Bulgaria, we can assist you in obtaining long term residence for EU (Bulgaria).

2. Middle level investment programme – the second level investment is the one for at least 512,000 euros (1 million Bulgarian Levs). This type of investment provides you directly permanent residency in Bulgaria. The investment need to be made mainly in financial sector or in joint-ventures with the government and municipality. The area of investment will be either direct financial services (for sole investments) OR any other economics area (for joint ventures with municipalities and the government).

3. High level investment programme – this type of investment programme is the highest one and the one which gives the investor the most benefits of all. The amount that needs to be invested is at least 8,000,000 Euros. With this residency option the investor can obtain not only permanent residency immediately, but also can benefit of 0% corporate tax, special government benefits, such as special dedicated government employees that will serve only to the investor’s project and government help with salary payments to certain amount of investor’s employees. There are many more benefits which will make the investor not only be EU resident, but will make him gain huge profit out of the opened EU markets. Remember Bulgaria, as part of the EU can export without any restrictions to any EU country. Under certain additional conditions the investor in this programme can also apply for Bulgarian citizenship too.

The first is by investing a minimum sum of 50,000 euros. The client receives long-term resident status which allows them indefinate stay within Bulgaria, as well as allowing them to travel to ANY other EU country and seek work there. After 5 years, they are then granted permanent resident status.

The second is by investing 512,000 euros (1 million lev). This takes the client directly to permanent resident status by immediately giving them a permanent residence permit, and therefore skipping 5 year long-term residence stage.

And finally, by doing a very large investment of 8,000,000 euros. This takes the investor directly to citizenship. Within a few weeks of making this massive investment, clients receive their Bulgarian passport. It is important to note here that citizenship doea NOT have any significant advantage over an EU residence permit(as in the first and second scenarios above). The only additional rights clients receive from citizenship as oppoed to a permanent residence permit is the right to vote and the right to join the Bulgarian army and police force.

1. The vast majority are very new in this field and have very little experience of the processes involved,  having been formed very recently. This lack of experience in European Union immigration has lead to a very high proportion of these Czech applications being delayed and rejected. A number of them have also been reported to Interpol for taking clients’ money and then vanishing, giving the whole industry a bad name.

But even for well established immigration consultancies from the Czech Republic, there are still many problems with their  offerings.

2. To begin with, to become a Czech permanent resident, you must first pass a stringent Czech language test, something the vast majority of them never mention on their websites and only tell their clients AFTER they have paid the whole sum. If clients do not pass this test, they are deported.

3. Also, income tax in the Czech Republic is one of the highest in the whole of Europe. Therefore, any savings made on the initial payment to obtain permanent residence are quickly wiped out.

4. In addition, Non-EU residents are often lured into getting their residence permits through the Czech Republic because of the low prices. But what these companies fail to tell them is that after initially getting their visas to enter the country, they must wait more than 2 months before being granted EU residence – often in the expensive capital Prague, where most of these companies are based.

This means that EU immigration through the Czech Republic is in fact the most expensive and least reliable in the whole of Europe.

Thankfully, European immigration is not blighted by many cases such as these, as immigration departments are aware of the legal threat if they were not is issue a residence permit on discriminatory  grounds. If  the documents submiited are correct and the applicant’s answers in interview are consistant with these documents, then a permanent residence permit MUST be issued.

Governments have begun to grant resident permits to ambitious non-EU residents looking to start their own companies with new business ideas. Making such people permanent residents in the EU is quite simply the best thing for their economies, as well as being the best criteria for controlling EU immigration.

Indians on the whole are very shrewd investors. Their return on investment has meant that many have basically made money out of becomming an EU resident, rather than having to pay like everyone else. Very clever…

The most favoured investments to facilitate EU immigration are currently real estate(especially agricultural land), and the catering business(particularly restaraunts).