Malaysia’s tourism minister has asked the Immigration Department to increase checks on MM2H participants who do business without permission. MOTAC lists business as permissible only on the Platinum tier, which made up 46 of the program’s 3,172 approvals in 2025.
Contrary to reports, the Citizenship Office denies any decision to revoke Tate’s citizenship. Daniel Agius of the Vanuatu Investment Migration Bureau tells IMI a ruling is imminent.
Shah says the SEC never asked for files she described under oath before suing her in 2023. She wants the claim dropped and her fees paid.
Every route to citizenship has two timelines: the one its nationality law sets and the one the queue adds. Across eight routes, the second is where the surprise lives.
Thailand hasn’t stripped a dual national of citizenship since 1965. Kuwait tolerated it for decades, then revoked 50,000 citizenships in a year.
All five Eastern Caribbean citizenship by investment programs face a 30-day presence rule that has not started. Most in-person steps in force today, including biometrics, interviews and oaths, can be completed abroad. Vanuatu and Antigua and Barbuda are the exceptions.
Taxing returns rather than net worth, the surtax would reach back to January 1. Congress already overturned one DC tax law this year.
From a second passport to a smart real estate investment, here is why thousands of international families continue to choose Turkey.
IMI found no published bank rule refusing people who acquired citizenship through investment. The questions banks do ask come from the OECD’s list of potentially high-risk programs and a 2023 report on earlier passports.
Tony Ebraheem argues governments forgive golden visas their lighter checks for one reason: A permit expires, and citizenship does not.
With 6,134 already canceled and 1,757 more in proceedings, Turkey’s cleanup of its citizenship program is becoming a rolling operation.
Fifteen months after finding no fault with Tate’s file, Port Vila reverses course without naming which Citizenship Act ground it relied on.
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.
Georgaki Law Firm on why Greece’s property and banking routes lead Europe, and what a proposed 15% transfer tax would change.
Every citizenship by investment program can take back what it granted. The grounds are wide and rest on a minister being satisfied. The procedure decides whether you can fight a revocation, and the time you get to answer varies from seven days to 60.
Deeper Canada–EU mobility could reshape the value of Canadian business immigration, argues Melissa Godmer.
“The rapid changes in government regulations are a significant concern. Citizenship and residency by investment programmes are being amended, repriced, or closed with very little notice.”
A Caribbean beach house in Costa Rica, a wine cellar outside Asunción, and a surf-break condo on Panama’s Pacific: this week’s picks.
Visa-free travel is arguably the least interesting benefit of a Grenadian passport. The real product is legal status: a second nationality carrying US access, tax optionality, regional rights, and something to leave your children.
The EU offer covered defense, tech, and the Arctic, but not mobility. Experts put visa-free movement rights years away, if ever.
The bill targets a route the prime minister first proposed and would leave one investor option.
US$300,000 still qualifies if the property passes one test. A new, cheaper deposit route comes with a condition of its own.
Dutch investors keep the notional-return system until at least 2029 while the government drafts a tax charged only at the point of sale.
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Beijing codifies its power to keep citizens home. Lesperance says wealthy Chinese are leaving “before they get the knock on the door.”
Tax residence is a separate test from immigration status, and only Argentina and Hungary write a permit into it. For every other country on this list, your wealth tax bill turns on days present and on where your assets are.
The strongest semester on record came entirely under the old rules, weeks before the government made the stock route 50% pricier.
“If they [Caribbean Five] lose their visa-free entry to Europe their revenues are going to tank,” he said. “They’re going to take a shellacking.”
Panama’s investor visa accepts off-plan property held for five years. The hedge against delivery risk is the developer’s track record.
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and El Salvador each publish a restricted list, and no two of them name the same countries.
Skopje removes the price tag but keeps the product: discretionary passports for “special interest” individuals remain on the table.
Carney has raised visa-free settlement with EU leaders, according to the Wall Street Journal. Ottawa disputes the label, not the mobility.
More than 1,000 families in Liberty are adding the work that starts where immigration law stops, in Portugal and in Italy. The new website is available at www.libertylex.com
Why the number of generations a country lets you count back tells you almost nothing about whether you will get the passport.
“This business has operated from the start without having real goals. It just grows organically based on doing what we find interesting and what will delight our clients.”
The 2028 deadline gets the headlines. The one that bites first is a Commission report due in December, and September feeds it.
Growth category applicants can invest through approved managed funds only, and cannot live in what they fund.
Cleared weeks after the Ceuta crisis, the bill now faces a conservative-held Senate and an opposition with a proven appetite for litigation.
The residence card answers the mobility question. Renewals, schooling, property, and the eventual exit all remain open.
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.
Eight years would place Ireland above the five-year figure used by Germany, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Luxembourg. The Justice Minister confirms that applicants four years into the current five-year clock will face the higher bar.
Two years after Germany normalized dual nationality, and a record 332,500 naturalizations later, the ruling party wants a reversal.
Slava Apel on IRCC’s new vocabulary: Elite entrepreneurs, high impact, and a 2026 federal business admissions target of 500.
The start date has moved to July 1, 2027 and companies are out entirely. Georgaki, Shiapani, and Varnavas on the ten-month gap.
With EU clients up 12% and European enquiries up 35% in a year, PL Group’s Zurich move follows the demand.
The ruling caps a year of UAE golden visa fraud that has ranged from a viral “lifetime visa” hoax to a celebrity selling fake residencies.
The UK’s third-biggest taxpayer is reportedly switching his residency to Greece and opening an Athens office. Greece charges new tax residents a flat 100,000 euros a year on all foreign income, whatever they earn, for up to 15 years.
From a $70,000 Paraguay investment to a $1,000 Panama pension, six paths to a livable Plan B residency, all for under $100,000.
A Maryland judge enjoined Executive Order 14418 on September 2. Two days later, DHS put one of its four categories into the rulebook.
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