New York Leads 22-State Suit Against Green Card Rule on Food Stamps and Medicaid
DHS projects US$13.05 billion a year in lower benefit payouts but says it cannot estimate how many green cards the test will deny.
Turkey to Revoke 1,070 More Citizenships in Second CBI Sham-Sale Operation
With 6,134 already canceled and 1,757 more in proceedings, Turkey’s cleanup of its citizenship program is becoming a rolling operation.
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Vanuatu Revokes Andrew Tate’s CBI Citizenship in Reversal of 2025 Decision
Fifteen months after finding no fault with Tate’s file, Port Vila reverses course without naming which Citizenship Act ground it relied on.
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Latvia’s Progressives File Bill to Scrap €150,000 Golden Visa Fund Route
The bill targets a route the prime minister first proposed and would leave one investor option.
Which Citizenship by Investment Programs Make a Child Born After the Grant a Citizen
A child born after the parent’s citizenship by investment grant is named in no application. Whether that child is a citizen, and what it costs, is decided by 14 nationality laws, not 14 programs. Ten make the child a citizen at birth. Four make the family apply and pay a second time.
Jordan Naturalizes 65 Investors With $102 Million in H1 2026, More Than Doubling Last Year’s Pace
The strongest semester on record came entirely under the old rules, weeks before the government made the stock route 50% pricier.
China Can Now Ban Its Citizens From Leaving for Three Years, and Never Tell Them Why
Beijing codifies its power to keep citizens home. Lesperance says wealthy Chinese are leaving “before they get the knock on the door.”
Panama Capital-Based Visa Approvals Down 41% in H1 2026, Friendly Nations Visa Near Record Low
Approval rates held between 96% and 98%, placing the contraction on the filing side rather than in the decisions.
What If Becoming Canadian Meant You Could Also Live in Europe?
Deeper Canada–EU mobility could reshape the value of Canadian business immigration, argues Melissa Godmer.
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