Portugal’s leading open-ended Golden Visa fund splits into three sub-funds matching different goals and risk profiles, eligibility intact.
Three programs admit a parent at any age and four admit none at all. Grenada’s widely quoted 55 decides which fee band a parent falls into, and decides nothing about eligibility.
Experts predict a change in who pays rather than a tax cut, and doubt it would keep wealthy French families from leaving.
Greece’s finance ministry has published a draft bill that would tax individuals’ gains from crypto-assets at 10%. Net gains of up to €500 a year would go untaxed, and the ministry wants parliament to vote on the bill in the first week of November.
Armenia asks only for Armenian origin until a 2028 draft adds residence. Chile reaches the grandchild. Most others stop at one generation.
“They’re thinking, ‘if we have tanks rolling down streets in Washington or World War III or what have you, I may need to pick up my bags and move until the dust settles.”
With 30,000 biometric appointments booked for golden visa applicants, Lisbon practitioners now quote 14 to 18 months for new filings.
Top-tier international health cover rose 18% in a year, and the hubs wealthy families favor are among the costliest places to insure.
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Turkey and Cyprus have revoked in the thousands, four programs in the dozens, and five with the thinnest safeguards not at all.
The PQ would admit only economic immigrants already in Quebec; Patrick McCarthy sees the investor program as a lever the new government will use.
PASOK wants an “Angel Visa” instead; lawyer Christina Georgaki says golden visa buyers are mostly in a different market from Greek households.
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In Japan, naturalization takes effect on the day the official gazette announces it. In Saint Lucia, the law requires that the names of CBI citizens go to Parliament, and the government has left them out since 2019.
One bill would void citizenships already granted, another would keep them, and neither offers a refund.
Germany, Brazil, and Russia still shield citizens by constitution. Two Latin American bans just fell, and a new passport rarely counts.
Aly El Dakroury argues that governance, not marketing, will decide whether Argentina’s citizenship programme lasts.
The People’s Party, which fought golden visa abolition, leads the polls; the Sahrawi citizenship bill goes back to square one.
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Every Caribbean citizenship by investment program writes two restrictions into its property rules. One sets when you may sell. The other decides whether the property can ever qualify anybody else, and that is the one that sets your price.
Andrew Tate’s ‘Schrodinger’s Citizenship’ situation has exposed a bigger question, writes Joseph Boll: When a sovereign state grants citizenship, is it prepared to stand behind it?
For GSC International’s Onur Sumer, investment migration was “never really just about obtaining a passport.”
Investment migration programs accept most lawful money, as long as you can document each step between the day you earned it and the day it reached the government account.
The Home Office has conceded one Italian case. Under Italian law, says one lawyer, “proof may come later; the status does not.”
A founding member of the consortium advising Buenos Aires, Latitude was in Paris as Argentina confirmed two routes and a Q4 launch.
At least 210,000 Britons took a second EU citizenship after 2016. The first rejoin overture from a sitting prime minister puts EU settlement rights back in play.
“Today’s numbers make it real,” says one adviser. “At this price, the market is not that big,” says another.
The starting price is lower than what the media has been circulating, with a dependent-based pricing framework in play.
Several countries make citizens tell the government when they take another citizenship. Silence can lead to a criminal case in Russia, a fine or expulsion in Kazakhstan, or, for Spaniards living abroad, the loss of their citizenship after three years.
Chinese nationals filed half the applications. Property purchases now outweigh fixed deposits, reversing the order Malaysia reported for 2025.
Fees stay below the court-stayed 2024 rates but land a month before the $800,000 minimum investment is set to rise.
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Beijing’s new offshore wealth rules have put residence planning on the adviser’s agenda. Arton Capital on optionality, not tax relief.
Non-EU applicants face more than double today’s minimum tax from 2027; applications received by December 31 keep current terms until 2031.
BRICS, NATO and the Commonwealth give citizens of their member countries no right to live or work in another member country. That right comes from blocs like the European Union and Mercosur, so the best citizenship in each power alliance is from a country in one of those blocs.
No thresholds or timeline yet, and the 12,000 figure does not match the 7,088 golden visas officials reported to MPs in April.
Vanuatu shuts investor citizens out of the ballot for life. St. Kitts closes parliament to them forever. Turkey draws no line at all.
Foreign specialists on Kazakhstan’s professions list can apply for permanent residence without proof of financial solvency. A draft order would more than triple that list, though the new list is not yet on the government portal.
Sam Bayat thinks the biggest threat to Argentina’s CBI program isn’t the applicants. It’s the rest of us.
El Salvador is the only government that takes Bitcoin or USDT as the qualifying payment for citizenship. Almost every other program wants cash, so the due diligence on where your crypto came from decides your application.
Philip J. Pierre and Gaston Browne told EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner that citizenship by investment finances development in the Eastern Caribbean. Saint Lucia’s account of the meeting announced no change to the June 2028 phase-out date.
For a lone applicant, the Heritage route now costs US$25,000 more than the new Solo option, which needs no DNA test.
Paraguay admitted more than 6,500 permanent residents in 2024 and issued 45 naturalization resolutions. Brazilians took the most permits. Argentines took the most citizenships. The two lists have pointed in opposite directions for a decade.
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Canada, Australia, and the UK all call their status “permanent,” then take it back if you leave too long. A short list of countries actually mean it. Here is where permanent residence survives indefinite absence, and where it doesn’t.
A tax treaty settles dual residence by applying its tests one at a time, starting with where you have a home available. Each treaty sets its own order, and some differ from the OECD Model. If the treaty picks the other country, Canada treats you as having left, and the UK and Australia do not.
Onur Sümer of GSC International argues Argentina can borrow mechanisms from both precedents while inheriting the conditions of neither.
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Amendments passed at ratification rewrite the entrepreneur route, close a treaty gap in the flat tax, and add twice-yearly reporting to parliament.