You can inherit it, earn it, and you can lose it.

Sinchip is the most arbitrary thing in the world and it's actually a leftover from medieval futile times. This is one of the few things left where it's tied to

bloodline or where you're born. So the fact that you're Australian and British is

pure luck.

45 years later, we're being told that we're no longer citizens

and if we want to remain in the country,

we have to apply for new citizenship and we have to pay for it.

Citizenship is part of our identity, a definition of who we are and the global market for

acquiring it is booming.

Chinese client, a Chinese friend, you know he is rich, but you don't know he has so many passport. He maybe buy a free or four passport to save.

Yeah, so maybe they buy a Wandau passport, they buy San Kist passport, they buy Dominica passport, so, yeah.

And you help them do that?

Yeah, yeah.

Why are people prepared to pay so much for an alternative passport?

And why can it prove so controversial?

You've got to wonder what the motivation is,

or people running away from something, wanted to hide from something,

you know fleeing extradition from one place,

and do we really want them here as well through the

back door? Somehow this is unfair. How can you let rich people buy their way into

residents or even citizenship? But then you you know, I reply, there is a lot of things

out there today in the modern world that are unfair.

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