There's a specific kind of client Glocal Opportunities tends to attract in the RBI/CBI space: someone who has already read threw blog posts, watched a couple of YouTube explainers, and is now more confused than when they started. That confusion is more or less the reason this vertical exists at all. Rohit Sharma, Chairperson of Glocal Opportunities, is the architect of residency and citizenship by investment programs at Glocal - the person who looked at how scattered this space was for Indian investors and decided to build something that wasn't.
This isn't a testimonial piece or a highlight reel. It's an attempt to explain who Rohit Sharma is, what "architect" actually means in this context, and why that title gets attached to his name specifically.
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Who Is Rohit Sharma?
Rohit Sharma is the Chairperson of Glocal Opportunities, one of India's more established names in global mobility and immigration consulting. He's spent close to three decades in the industry, and under his leadership, Glocal has grown into a multinational entity carrying 25+ years of immigration and visa consulting expertise, alongside 17+ years in global outsourcing and IT recruitment.
That IT-recruitment and outsourcing background is worth pausing on, because it's not the usual entry point into immigration consulting. Most people in this field come in through law or pure visa processing. Rohit Sharma's path ran through global workforce movement first - which arguably gives him a more operational, systems-level view of how people actually move across borders, rather than a purely document-driven one. Across Glocal's own materials, he's referred to simply as rohit sharma glocal opportunities chairperson, but the title undersells how involved he's been in shaping each individual vertical, RBI/CBI included.
The One Idea That Runs Through Everything He's Built
If you spend any time with how Rohit Sharma talks about this work, one line surfaces repeatedly: a visa is never just a document. It represents a person's decision to step outside everything familiar - for travel, study, work, business, or immigration.
It's a soft-sounding statement for a fairly hard-edged industry, but it has a practical effect. It means Glocal's Residency and Citizenship by Investment vertical was never designed as a pure transaction engine - money in, residency card out. It was built around the assumption that someone applying for a Golden Visa or an EB-5 is usually also thinking about their kids' schooling, their spouse's career, their parents' healthcare, and a dozen other things that have nothing to do with the investment threshold itself.
Why the Vertical Needed an Architect in the First Place
Before Glocal had a dedicated RBI/CBI offering, Indian investors interested in these routes were doing what most people still do: piecing advice together from different agents, different forums, and different countries' immigration websites, with no single party accountable for the whole picture. Rohit Sharma's role as rohit sharma cbi rbi expert was to close that gap - to give Indian investors one credible, coordinated route into these programs instead of a scattered one.
Under him, Glocal positioned itself as one of the few consultancies in India covering the full spread of visa verticals under a single roof - skilled migration, business migration, investment, startups, study, and tourist visas. RBI/CBI doesn't sit off to the side of that; it runs on the same global partner network of service providers, recruiters, incubation centres, and business brokers that supports every other vertical Glocal handles.
You can read more about his specific role on the Rohit Sharma - Architect of Residency and Citizenship by Investment entity page.
What Actually Sits Under the RBI/CBI Vertical
Two offerings anchor the vertical Rohit Sharma has overseen: Golden Visa advisory and EB-5 advisory.
Golden Visa Advisory is guidance built around what a specific investor wants and qualifies for, rather than a generic pitch repeated to every client. It currently covers three of the routes Indian investors ask about most:
- The Greece Golden Visa - a residency-by-investment path into Greece.
- Malta Residency by Investment - structured around the investor's own goals rather than a fixed template.
- The Portugal Golden Visa - one of the best-known routes, with the added draw of Schengen access.
EB-5 Advisory covers the US immigrant investor route, which runs on entirely different logic from the European or UAE golden visa programs and needs to be understood on its own terms.
For the fuller landscape, Glocal also maintains a Residency and Citizenship by Investment India hub page covering all five current programs, including the Dubai Golden Visa. Each program also has its own dedicated page:
- Malta Residency by Investment
- Portugal Golden Visa
- Dubai Golden Visa
- Greece Golden Visa
- US EB-5 Investor Visa
Why "Architect" Is the Right Word Here
Residency and Citizenship by Investment sits at an awkward intersection: it needs someone fluent in investment structures and someone fluent in cross-border visa and residency law, and those two skill sets rarely live in the same person or the same firm. Getting either half wrong tends to cost investors time, money, or both.
Rohit Sharma's decision was to fold RBI/CBI advisory into Glocal's existing structure rather than spinning it off as an isolated boutique service. The practical effect is that a conversation with Glocal doesn't start with "which country do you want to buy your way into" - it starts with what the investor and their family are actually trying to achieve, and works backward from there to whichever program fits: Europe, the UAE, or the US.
That's a meaningful part of why Glocal Opportunities keeps showing up as a reference point for people comparing RBI/CBI options in India, alongside its broader standing as the best immigration consultant in India.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the architect of Glocal's Residency and Citizenship by Investment programs?
Rohit Sharma, Chairperson of Glocal Opportunities, built and oversees the company's RBI/CBI vertical, including its Golden Visa and EB-5 advisory offerings.
What is Rohit Sharma's background before immigration consulting?
He has close to three decades in global mobility and immigration, alongside 17+ years in global outsourcing and IT recruitment - a background that shapes how Glocal approaches cross-border investment and residency work.
What programs fall under Glocal's RBI/CBI vertical?
Golden Visa advisory (covering Greece, Malta, and Portugal) and EB-5 advisory for the US, alongside Dubai Golden Visa advisory listed on Glocal's broader RBI/CBI hub.
Is RBI/CBI Glocal's only visa service?
No. It sits alongside skilled migration, business migration, startup visas, study visas, and tourist visas, all run under the same consultancy and the same global partner network.
Why do investors bring RBI/CBI questions to Glocal specifically?
Because it's handled by the same team and infrastructure behind Glocal's other visa categories, under Rohit Sharma's oversight, rather than as a standalone side offering - which tends to matter for a process that runs across months and multiple jurisdictions.
Want to Speak With the Team Behind Glocal's RBI & CBI Programs?
If you're weighing a Golden Visa route, looking into EB-5, or just trying to figure out which residency or citizenship by investment program fits your situation, Glocal's team - built and overseen by Rohit Sharma - is a reasonable place to start.
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