HENG SHENG GOT IT WRONG; YOU RETAIN A LAWYER TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS, AND GET THE COMPLETE PICTURE, NOT TO DRESS UP YOUR APPLICATION

If you read the recent article by GALLI KHURELEE, the Sales Manager for the Chinese (Dubai-based) CBI consultancy, HENG SHENG ( a/k/a HS Group), you were given to understand advice to the effect that you hire a lawyer to represent you in an immigration or second passport matter only to present a favorable impression, and that you can dispense with a lawyer entirely, if you know what you are doing. Nothing can be further from the truth. This is bad advice; do not follow it.

Applicants hire a lawyer to protect their interests, not to dress up their application. Most applicants for CBI passport programs do not know how to conduct Due Diligence upon the jurisdiction you are applying to. Why? because you need someone to investigate into any possible issues or problems that holding that new passport might happen. Many of them are former, or even present, offshore tax havens, with a record of facilitating drug money laundering, fraud and even international sanctions evasion. Some of them are havens for official corruption, which might result in your being associated with an unsavory nation. Still others often revoke citizenships and passports without Due Process, meaning that your entire six figure investment could be lost, with no chance of recovering it in the local courts, which are controlled by senior government officials who tell the judges how to decide cases, ignoring the Rule of Law. Finally, some passports are illegally issued, in violation of the laws that created them, making them void ab initio.

In short, you will want to always engage a competent attorney, any time you even consider applying for a second passport, or for any other migration matter, before you sign on the dotted line. Do not trust anyone who will earn a sizable commission for bringing you in as a client, for their interests may therefore conflict with yours Look before you Leap. ladies & gentlemen, and arm yourself first with a competent lawyer to search for any legal minefields that exist first.