{"id":27757,"date":"2021-02-04T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/migration-firm-investigated-over-ads-promising-vanuatu-passports"},"modified":"2021-02-04T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:00:13","slug":"migration-firm-investigated-over-ads-promising-vanuatu-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27757","title":{"rendered":"Migration firm investigated over ads promising Vanuatu passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global-Migrate accused of promoting access to travel document without the government\u2019s authority, although advertisements \u2018not unlawful in themselves\u2019<\/p>\n<p>An international migration firm is being investigated for allegedly promoting access to the Vanuatu\u2019s passports without the government\u2019s authority, in the latest controversy to hit the county\u2019s \u201ccitizenship-for-sale\u201d program.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu\u2019s citizenship commissioner, Ronald Warsal, has placed Global-Migrate under investigation after access to the scheme was promoted by its Dubai office on the <a href=\"https:\/\/global-migrate.com\/vanuatu-citizenship-by-investment\/\">company\u2019s website<\/a>, and videos and pictures appeared on its Facebook page, showing apparently happy customers holding passports and even national ID cards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/migration-firm-investigated-over-ads-promising-vanuatu-passports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global-Migrate accused of promoting access to travel document without the government\u2019s authority, although advertisements \u2018not unlawful in themselves\u2019An international migration firm is being investigated for allegedly promoting access to the Vanuatu\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,629,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27791,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757\/revisions\/27791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}