In England and France, foreigners can buy property in private ownership. But in order to obtain a residence permit in these countries need to open a real business.
But in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria are allowed to purchase housing for foreigners only on the legal person. At the same time Swiss or Luxembourg business needed a foreigner to obtain a residence permit may be purely nominal, but the Austrian - both French and English - must be the most that neither is true.
If your plans are more thorough (residence permit you a little, and wants to become a citizen of Switzerland, England, France, Austria and Luxembourg), then you need to live in these countries is not less than six months of the year, to pay local taxes, have an impeccable reputation at the police department and gain respect their neighbors. The latter, as it is strange to us, it is particularly important. Favorable opinion of your neighbors and their positive recommendation can play a crucial role in obtaining citizenship.
To begin with, how to settle in Britain.
The average luxury property in London (Kensington Garden, Kensington Road, Chelsea, Cherring Cross, Piccadilly-line, Notting Hill) costs from $ 2.2 million for Q1. meter regardless of whether you bought the property - an apartment or single family house. Slightly lower - by 5 - 10% - real estate prices in Oxford, Cambridge, Brighton.
When buying a house or flat in Britain foreigner pays the tax (7.8% of transaction value) and a one-time registration fee for the registration of real estate in the House of residential property (approximately $ 1 thousand). 3 - 5% will take the notary deed for registration and verification of the purity of the transaction, 4 - 5% - fee realtor, who was looking for you home. Documents are registered, usually within a month. Annual property tax - 1.5% of the cost of housing.
Visit their English property and live in it can be normal visitor's visa. However, to gain a foothold in the British Isles, it is necessary not only to buy, but also to open a real business. The right to conduct business visa allows Self Employed Entrepreneur (independent entrepreneur).
A foreigner can open any legal business in the British kingdom. According to the staff consultancy Business Management International, the local authorities most favorable to the investors, who are developing the export of technology to grow ornamental grasses, producing a British beer, Scotch whiskey, textiles. Also welcome investment in the tourism industry.
Doing business in Britain is in the following manner. To begin with British lawyers to fill in questionnaires and answer questions about your business areas of the Russian company, if any. Then write a business plan is created and written English firm explanatory note, which should convincingly demonstrate that it is in England, your business will grow most successfully, and, most importantly, it is extremely necessary that a prosperous country.
You are required to invest in the new project of 200 thousand pounds sterling (about $ 340 thousand). Investments should be targeted: in the land for the construction of a facility to purchase the factory, restaurant or real estate, which then can be rent.
There is one prerequisite for the legalization of the British Isles. We must show that you have the means to live in England, at least during the first year - at least $ 30 000 for each family member. Your documents are sent to the lawyers of English Home Office. The package of papers must also attach proof of your legal and mailing address in London. As a rule, the office (and therefore, legal address) provides law firms, which leads your business. Tenancy of 40 - 60 sqm. m in a good area of London will cost £ 500 ($ 800) per month.
The lawyers will take over the entire service package 10 - 12 thousand pounds sterling ($ 16 - 19.2 thousand).
If the Home Office considers the dossier provided by the positive, you will cause an interview to the British Embassy in Moscow. The final decision on a visa Self Employed Entrepreneur takes the consul. Visa fee of $ 1.5 thousand for the head of a family and $ 900 for the rest of the family.
The visa is issued for one year. During this year, you must provide jobs to at least two Britons (salary of each is not less than $ 3 thousand per year).
If local authorities find what you are doing well (the annual turnover of at least $ 1.6 million) and regularly pay taxes (up to 40% of revenues), you extend your visa Self Employed Entrepreneur for three more years. Visa itself does not cost anything, but you'll pay about $ 5000 for attorneys mediation services (per family).
After four years in England (at least six months per year) can apply for registration of permanent residence. Lawyers' fees on registration of a "registration" are 5 - 6 thousand pounds ($ 8 - 9.6 thousand).
Granted a permanent status, you can seek British citizenship. The lawyers will take over the paperwork at this stage for about $ 5 - 8000. Thus, the total cost of the design of British passports will be at least $ 20 thousand.
If the fog, and other vagaries of English weather you do not like, and like heat and sun, you can stop the choice on the world-famous resorts in France.
Apartments with a good finish in the prestigious area of Nice (south side of the city, the coastal zone, the area of Cimiez, Mont-Boront, Fabron) cost from $ 2 thousand per 1 sq. km. meter.
Mansions, located between Nice and Monaco (areas St.Jean Cap Ferrat, Beulieu-sur-Mer), are not less than $ 700 thousand.
In Paris, quality accommodation (16th District, Island of St. Louis, the Latin Quarter, Champs Elysees, Montmartre hill) will cost not less than $ 8000 per 1 sq. km. meter.
French real estate is sold only through real estate companies. Realtors for their services take about 5% of the cost of housing. The future owner of a real estate agent finds the original contract ("compromise") and pays the real estate 10% of the cost as an advance. Since then, the house (apartment) is reserved for the buyer. Then the "compromise" is passed to the local notary who checks the cleanliness of the transaction, it registered in the municipality, signed bill of sale. Paid through the notary and registration fees.
Registration fee and notary fee of 2.5% of the transaction, if you buy a new home (the age of which no more than 5 years), and 7.5%, if you bought an old house (which is more than 5 years).
After receiving a certificate of registration, you will pay the remaining amount of the agency (90%) and get a notary title to the house.
Annual property tax of 0.1% of the cost of housing.
As noted above, to qualify for resident status in France, you need to buy property and arrange a real business.
In order to enter the country legally reside in and manage your business, you need to get a business visa.
Pick up the economy and housing in France, it is possible to apply for a residence permit. Typically, the process of residency takes six months - a year.
Among the conditions for obtaining a residence permit to highlight two: at least six months of the year the applicant must reside in the territory of France and prove a means to stay in the country. On a family of three is not less than $ 3 thousand a month. If you have a car - at least $ 4 thousand per month (in France, the most expensive in Europe, parking and servicing). You also need to provide a balance confirming the success of your French business (any minimum slats on the profitability of business here, unlike in England, does not exist, the only requirement - the balance should be zero), and extract the payment of utility bills and taxes. The residence permit is issued by a local attorney. The lawyer sends your dossier to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France and to the local immigration department. The cost of its services - about $ 10 thousand.
First residence permit is valid for one year. During this time, officials are looking at the emigrant. If there are no claims to it by the police department and the tax authorities, resident status is extended for five years. During the execution of documents at this stage, the lawyer will take another $ 5 - 7000. Then the immigrant has the right to apply for French citizenship. A lawyer for the trouble to pay $ 2 - 3000.
Full legalization process will cost you $ 16 - 20 000 (per family) and will last at least five years. Before issuing a passport, you will test knowledge of spoken French.
Vienna
Housing in prime locations in Vienna (Vienna, 1, 3 Vienna, Vienna, 17, Vienna-19) costs from $ 3 thousand per 1 sq. km. meter.
Apartments in new high-rise buildings that were erected on the shore of Lesser Danube in the 20th district of Vienna, you can buy at a price of $ 2 thousand per 1 sq. km. meter. In particular, these apartments are selling a real estate agency Aristo Comfort Estates, Trading House SCM.
Austria - a mountainous country. Its upper part (near Salzburg) is less developed, but because real estate there for 15 - 20% cheaper than in Lower Austria, where all the famous resorts (Baden, Innsbruck) and Vienna.
As noted above, a foreigner can not buy a home in Austria to private ownership. Real estate is issued only to a legal entity. So to begin with will have to register the Austrian company and start a real business there.
Registration to engage in your future Austrian company may only local lawyers. To enter the country to choose housing, to meet with lawyers can be an ordinary tourist visa. Lawyers officially invite you to Austria for business in the country. The cost of invitation will be included in a complete package of incorporation of the company - its price is $ 30 thousand.
For the money the lawyers make out an invitation to provide real legal address, prepare a business plan, looking for a future nominee directors of the company (one of them must be local, others - you or your family members).
Arrange the Austrian Embassy in annual work visa (or a work permit - Arbeiterlaubnis).
Visa fee of $ 1.5 thousand for each family member over 12 years.
Then you go to Austria, pay real charter capital - from 500 thousand Austrian schillings ($ 47,000) if the company's two shareholders, and 1 million Austrian schillings ($ 94 thousand), if it has more than two shareholders. Half the cost can be made in cash, the remainder - the property.
The deadline for registration of 3 - 4 weeks. After receiving a registration certificate for the company, you are obliged to register with the local tax department.
Opening the company, you can buy her a house, paying the cost of housing agency and commission realtor (3% of transaction amount). Amount to 3% sales tax, which levies a local municipality. 1% - Tax registration, it is sent to the Land Registry Austria (Grundbuch). And another 4 - 6% of the value of the home will advocate for making the deed and its acknowledgment in the Department of Land Transfer (Grundverkehrsbehorden). The lawyer also helps to put the acquired company's balance sheet at home.
The Austrian authorities can close the company in only one case - if the owner does not pay taxes (up to 34% - income tax, 25% - a tax on the dividends accrued on the company's bank account and a personal bank account).
The lower bracket of the annual turnover in Austria no. You can engage in any lawful business that brings at least a minimal income. Does not exist in Austria, and property taxes.
If you have a real Austrian business and real estate, you can claim a "registration" in Austria.
Upon expiry of the annual work visa (Arbeiterlaubnis) you yourself go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria and apply for a residence permit - visa residence (or Ausenthaltsgenehmigung). Its cost is $ 1.5 thousand for each adult family member. Since you require a copy of the deed to the house, the certificate of registration of a company, a certificate of tax payment. But will issue the requested document only if you have lived in Austria for at least six months of the year.
According to consultants Business Management International, you can check your account for telephone, electricity, water, dies in Russian passports to cross the border in Austria.
Validity of visa residence for two years. She then extended for another two years, and then once in five years. The cost of each procedure, $ 1.5 thousand for each family member over 12 years.
After this period (a total of ten years) may file a petition to the Foreign Ministry of Austria for permanent residence. The cost of permanent residence is similar to a temporary residence permit. It can be renewed every five years (the procedure is worth $ 1.5 thousand per person) and live with him in Austria, without changing citizenship and can apply for a passport.
When issuing an Austrian passport (it's free), you check the knowledge of the constitution and the official language of Austria - German. Full legalization of the procedure will cost each member of your family at least $ 7.5 thousand.
Mystery of Swiss contributions
If you consider buying real estate in Switzerland as a legal route for emigration, the alien must make two mandatory conditions: purchase a house for at least $ 200 000 and register a nominee company. Wealthy country in the Financial Services welcomes only the wealthy. So foreigners, who can not invest in real estate called the sum of Switzerland as citizens do not need.
In order to purchase a house in the prestigious areas of the country, you need to put at least $ 2.5 thousand per 1 sq. km. m.
Prestigious in Switzerland are all the regions and districts, located in the foothills of the Alps, on the shores of lakes and ski resorts, a suburb of Zurich, Lausanne, Bern, Geneva, Montreux - there live wealthy Swiss
To you bought real estate owned legally, as in the case of Austria, to put it on the balance of the Swiss company. Package of services for registration of a company, for example, through consultancy Business Management International will cost you $ 12 - 15 thousand.
Consultants or lawyers draw up the constituent documents, rent an office, hire two nominee directors. According to local law directors may only be Swiss (usually they are themselves lawyers). Directors have limited powers. Their signature is valid only if your visa.
Then you pay $ 35,000 as a contribution to charter capital of its Swiss firm. Another $ 35,000 is formally claimed but not paid.
The annual cost of maintaining your company at an average of $ 8 - 10 000 (salaries of directors, an accountant, who gives a zero balance, the fee for annual renewal of registered office, office rent).
There are other costs: 9 - 10% of the apartment (house) lawyers will take for the registration of real estate in Switzerland Land and House for the payment of the mandatory state tax on the purchase of housing.
Real estate will belong to you until such time as there nominee company.
All the constituent documents of a contract and paid for a house lawyers refer to the cantonal authorities. Officials make the decision to grant temporary residence permits. With him you have to live in Switzerland over the next ten years. The cost of temporary residence permits are $ 5 - 6000. For its extension lawyer will charge for $ 12 - 15 thousand a year with each family member over 12 years.
After ten years of residence in Switzerland (at least six months of the year), temporary status may be reissued at a constant. The cost of the procedure are $ 5 - 6000. And two years later, you are entitled to apply for citizenship. And once again have to pay $ 5 - 6000.
Until you get a Swiss passport, you will send a local lawyer for $ 12 - 15 thousand per year (per family member) for the renewal of residence permits. As a rule, full legalization in the country (to obtain a Swiss passport) is 12 years.
Thus, the cost of legalization in the country of each member of your family will be at least $ 135 thousand.
The Duke and Duchess
An ideal residence for fans of "cozy" monarchies - Duchy of Luxembourg, where got such well-known housing our people, as the leader of the "Sputnik" Boris Jordan, or chairman of oil company "LUKoil" Alekperov.
Wolfram Fgel, director of Luxemburg Consalting Group:"The past ten years property prices have grown every year in Luxembourg on 2 - 3%. After all, this small country - the center of many European and international organizations (there are head-offices of the European Court, the Secretariat of the European Parliament, the European Monetary Fund). It always come to work tens of thousands of foreigners. purchased property easy to sell, if you look for a more comfortable accommodation, or rent if you do not live year round in the Duchy. "
The new elite housing in Luxembourg is located in the Kirchberg area and Limpertsberg. There are a lot of greens, schools new buildings and kindergartens in nature. In the city center and real estate in these areas is $ 1.5 - 2, 5 thousand per 1 sq. km. meter (in an apartment or house).
Attorney's fees, drawing up documents to the local Chamber of the Land, including the bill of sale, and the state fee for registration of real estate are 9 - 10% of the cost of housing. In Luxembourg, there is no property tax, but there are so-called income tax on the property. In particular, for homeowners it is 1.5 - 2% of the value of the house (flat) per year. The land tax (if the house is surrounded by a garden) - about $ 100 - 150 a year.
As is the case with Switzerland and Austria, Luxembourg your property to arrange for a legal person. Once again we recall the Luxembourg business firms may be purely nominal. To register your company will need the personal presence in Luxembourg.
Package of services for the local incorporation lawyers or consultants, in particular in the Luxemburg Consalting Group, worth about $ 4.4 thousand. As in the case of Switzerland, you will be given legal address, as well as three nominee directors. Directors can make anyone, including family members.
After filling out the registration form must contribute 1 million 250 thousand Luxembourg francs ($ 37,000) as the capital of your company.
The registration process takes about a week - the time necessary to make your company in the commercial register of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. After obtaining a certificate of registration, you can freely dispose of the funds previously spent on pay equity.
Then you have to deduct attorneys about $ 8000 per year and maintenance of the Luxembourg business (confirmation of registered office, nominee directors salary, fee auditor who will annually donate the balance).
By registering a company and putting on its balance sheet real estate, you can write your address in the Ministry of Justice to provide you a residence permit. The envelope must enclose a copy of the deed to the house and the bank statement confirming that you have enough to live in Luxembourg, the amount (not less than $ 2 thousand per month for each adult family member).
The application is considered at least two years. During this period, you must reside in the territory of the Duchy of at least six months of the year.
If so, a Ministry of Justice gives the applicant a residence permit (White Card). This procedure is free of charge. White Card is valid for five years and is automatically extended as necessary.
You may want to apply for a passport of Luxembourg. But you will test the knowledge of one of the official languages of the Duchy - Luxembourg, German or French. Many foreigners live in the duchy, without changing citizenship. Thus, they are exempt not only from the language exam, but also from all local taxes. Incidentally, the Luxembourgers, whose income is less than $ 4 thousand a month, do not pay taxes.
On the other hand, getting a passport, you can close your face and not a company to pay $ 8000 annually for maintenance. And at the same time can feel like a citizen of Luxembourg monarch.