Malta and Portugal top of the pops for expats

Malta and Portugal have topped the annual list of most desirable countries for migration in a prestigious survey for bench-marking and measuring the attractiveness of investment migration programmes, carried out by a UK citizenship consultancy. Malta was deemed number one among international jurisdictions when it comes to citizenship-by-investment programmes, essentially schemes that allow one to acquire citizenship in another jurisdiction in return for a minimum investment. And first in the list of countries offering residence-by-investment programmes was another European member stat...