Portugal’s cultural route drew over 70% of its total capital in 2025 alone. Patrícia Azevedo Lopes argues it is not a cheaper fund substitute.
How to check an agent’s license, what a real one looks like, and when to walk away because the economics seem too good to be true.
The CIU concedes a post-approval backlog. Russia and Iran supply 31% of the applicant book, a cohort the Caribbean has all but shut out.
Filing does not rebuild the market that licensing built. The client sourcing network fragmented after 2018 and has not come back together, so the providers who shrink their Chinese distribution in September will be cutting the wrong thing.
Hany Mostafa on the deposit residency that costs $50,000, stays in dollars, and closes in a single trip.
A regional regulator now sits above five national programmes. Brussels has already set a date for closing them anyway.
Yes, no, and “don’t ask, don’t tell”: the three answers every residency program gives when the money is borrowed.
Learn more about IMI’s Official Partner, CitizenX, and how the Swiss platform sells to private clients, advisers, and nation-states.
“I can’t take my private jet to London?” Major said, summing up the sentiment he heard from clients.
The word “permanent” promises less than most investors assume. A residence permit with no expiry date can still lapse through time abroad, fail to renew, or be withdrawn for a criminal record or a broken tie to the country. The fine print is what keeps the status alive.
Owners can legally refuse an inspection, but experts say the Valuation Office could simply assume a higher value that the owner must then pay to contest.
Answer questions about who you are and what you want, and we’ll match you with residency and citizenship paths you didn’t know you qualified for.
Rome has tripled the price of its flat tax in nine years, and the wealthy keep arriving. The numbers explain why.
With decisions now far outpacing intake, Greece’s once-notorious backlog is shrinking fast as demand pivots to €250K conversions.
LGBTQ+ US residency inquiries rose 3.1× since late 2024, with same-sex couples over 55 emerging as the fastest-growing cohort, finds new research by Get Golden Visa.
The freeze covered ten CBI jurisdictions. Lesperance expects Washington’s next restriction to survive the courts.
Demand for a European residency keeps climbing among Americans. On Sept 23, Malta’s residency chief lands in New York for a no-cost working session with US advisors.
Luc Lu on what the new exit-entry regulations mean for agents, for applicants, and for the firms that sell to both.
Decree-Law 79 of 2026 removes a right naturalized Kuwaitis previously acquired after 30 years. The text carries no expiry date.
Three governments will grant residency against the same account, because none of them asks for the money itself.
Eva Maria Kullmann argues the costliest error in international planning is expecting a passport to do a structure’s job.
Smart Homes Group on Greece’s Golden Visa: Price got you through the door. Value decides how it looks in 2036.
Approval rates held between 96% and 98%, placing the contraction on the filing side rather than in the decisions.
For three decades, Central Asia sat on the margins of the investment migration market. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan changed that in 2025. Two of the five republics now sell residence permits to foreign investors, though none offers a passport worth chasing.
IMA Grenada ties the 30-day rule to ECCIRA becoming operational and to a start date all five member states must first agree on.
Marco Mesina explains the landmark ruling that ends the two-year “minor issue” saga, and who stands to benefit.
Four years after “run philosophy” went viral in China, panic has matured into planning, and demand now flows through structured programs.
Government data show 99.8% of project capital went to tourism; Apex’s Nuri Katz explains the rejections, litigation, and what comes next.
Turkey, Egypt, and Cambodia pass citizenship down without limit, while three of the five Caribbean programs pass nothing down automatically.
“Such socialist regulations may rather trigger more HNWIs to leave the EU than foreign banks to open [local] offices,” warns Philippe May.
No voter has ever met a “capital inflow.” Residency programs will survive the coming decade only if new residents contribute in ways locals can feel.
From Athens’ €50,000 Airbnb fines to Dubai’s anything-goes freeholds, what golden visa investors may do with a qualifying property now varies wildly.
A DSP investor’s voting appeal fails, permanently barring CBI citizens from the ballot. Glen Craig: “He knew the rules when he applied.”
Uncapped commission, international travel, company-generated leads, and a global high-net-worth clientele: three client advisor roles are open now.
Turkey lets investors pick their registered name outright. The Caribbean allows changes too, on condition of full disclosure.
Patrick Peters says it is not whether the programs survive, but instead what could survive: Smaller, more selective, and more expensive versions of the ones sold today.
At least US$1.5 million and roughly 36 Jordanian jobs sit behind each file; cumulative approvals reach 687.
Paraguay, Uruguay, and The Bahamas tax foreign income at zero. The similarities end there.
Officials say most applicants are Russian citizens who are after a travel document. Yerevan attorney Nerses Isajanyan expects a residence permit requirement.
Common-law partners, same-sex spouses, and fiancés get very different answers depending on the jurisdiction, ranging from a notary visit to an outright second file.
Banks read a brief amendment as a freeze. Decree 550 exempts foreign individuals and lets them recover rubles already moved.
GSC International on what internationally mobile families are actually buying in Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, and Spain.
Processing speed is now part of the product. RISVAS & ASSOCIATES on what the Athens turnaround means for investors.
Bank secrecy is mostly gone. The real dividing line between jurisdictions today is whether an account can be frozen by an official’s signature or only by a judge’s ruling.
The DGFiP cut off the June intruder at the time, then disclosed nothing until the file went up for sale six weeks later.
Three of the five changes to the Active Investor Plus visa add evidentiary weight. One lifts it, and none touch the thresholds.
Building a client’s mobility plan around one program, one project, or one firm is a design flaw, not a preference, argues Slava Apel.
Hiran Chohan of Windsor Capital Management argues the EU’s 2028 ultimatum targets a motive most of his African clients don’t have.
A record denial rate is one of several findings, alongside a considerable fall in bond applications.
Whatever a passport pitch promises, the legal mechanism behind it is one of 10. This guide maps every route to citizenship in 2026, who qualifies for each, and where the doors are narrowing.