Programme VerificationMarcus Lindqvist
Swedish · Berlin, Germany
Marcus practised immigration law at a Stockholm firm for eight years before moving to Berlin and pivoting to research journalism. His work focuses on programme due diligence — verifying investment thresholds, processing timelines, and eligibility criteria directly against primary government sources. He reads legislative gazettes in six languages and considers this a reasonable use of time. His programme data has been cited in submissions to the European Parliament's PANA committee.
marcus@holidayhometimes.com Tax Residency & PlanningPriya Mohan
Indian · Dubai, UAE
A former transfer pricing partner at a Big Four firm, Priya left after a decade of advising UHNW families on cross-border tax structures to write about the same subject for a wider audience. She covers non-domicile tax regimes, territorial tax systems, the practical realities of tax residency exit planning, and the frequently misunderstood interaction between investment migration and OECD common reporting standards. She is widely read in the family office and private banking community, and maintains that most tax residency decisions are made with the wrong information.
priya@holidayhometimes.com Asia-Pacific ProgrammesOliver Chen
Singaporean · Singapore
Oliver spent a decade in private wealth management in Singapore and Hong Kong before moving to journalism. At CT, he covers the Asia-Pacific residency landscape — Singapore's global investor programme, Vanuatu's citizenship scheme, New Zealand's active investor plus visa, and the growing cohort of Southeast Asian HNWIs seeking European and Caribbean options. He brings a clear-eyed view of investment migration as an asset allocation decision and has little patience for programme marketing copy dressed up as research.
oliver@holidayhometimes.com MENA & Gulf ResidencyFatima El-Amine
Lebanese–French · Dubai, UAE
Born in Beirut and educated in Paris, Fatima worked as an immigration paralegal in Dubai for five years before transitioning to journalism. She covers the UAE Golden Visa, Oman residency, Jordan investment residence, and the rapidly expanding Middle Eastern residency landscape. Her reporting is informed by years spent helping applicants navigate Arabic-language government portals, and she is particularly attentive to the gap between what programme marketing materials promise and what approval letters actually say.
fatima@holidayhometimes.com European Golden VisasElena Papakostas
Greek–British · Athens, Greece
Elena holds a law degree from the University of Athens and a master's in European law from UCL. After several years in commercial practice she moved into journalism, covering the European Golden Visa landscape from the inside — Portugal, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, and the newly emerging regimes in Spain and Italy. She tracked the Portuguese NHR restructuring in real time from her base in Athens, and her coverage of Greek Golden Visa threshold increases was the first English-language reporting to identify the legislative change before the official announcement.
elena@holidayhometimes.com Caribbean CBI & PacificDavid Okafor
Nigerian–British · London, United Kingdom
David served as a diplomatic attaché in the British High Commission in Barbados before leaving the foreign service to write about the Caribbean citizenship landscape he had watched from the inside. He covers all five OECS citizenship-by-investment programmes — St. Kitts & Nevis, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, and St. Lucia — as well as Vanuatu and the Pacific island programmes. He is one of the few journalists with personal relationships at the citizenship unit level in multiple Caribbean jurisdictions, a fact that makes his due diligence timelines more accurate than almost anyone else publishing in the space.
david@holidayhometimes.com