The Western Balkans look cheap and uniform from the outside. Scored on the fundamentals that drive long-term property returns, the region’s six capitals pull sharply apart, and the EU accession frontrunner is not the one that comes out on top.
Any Bulgarian permanent residency holder who fails to meet it would lose their status if the bill passes into law.
Secret Bay has now paid out US$7.8M to villa owners. Q1 2026 ROI distributions alone jumped nearly 70% year over year.
Cancelled citizens revert to foreigner status with one year to sell their Turkish property, or the Treasury sells it for them.
From Spain’s two-year Ibero-American track to Brazil’s one-year CPLP route: Here’s where the right first passport shortens the wait.
Everyone got the 30-day rule wrong. Antigua’s CIU chief corrected the record at ORVIA’s Guangdong conference.
Remove Europe from a Caribbean passport and you remove what justified the price, argues Migronis co-founder Neringa Bulakiene.
Four years past the government’s own target date, the bills still carry no investment threshold and no list of qualifying assets.
Apex Capital Partners surveyed 1,733 high-earning Americans on the economy, the political climate, and whether they are planning an exit. Here is what they said.
A new quarterly report on the changes that mattered between May and July, and what they mean for the immediate future.
Three specialists, one a former adviser to Argentina’s migration directorate, on where the still-forming citizenship program lands.
Argentina would be a “game-changer for the investment migration industry, which is currently facing a shortage of new citizenship by investment programs.”
Brazilians accounted for 76% of the total. Permanent approvals fell in the second quarter; applications for the status did not.
Rome reintroduced air and sea checks for one month; Brussels rejected the wider demand to strip Spain of Schengen membership.
Buying a second citizenship widens your options on paper. It can also close doors at the border, and some of those doors stay shut no matter which passport you present.
Record FDI, the eurozone’s fastest debt reduction, and Europe’s leading real estate residence route: the official numbers behind Greece’s rise.
Specialists in Argentine law and investment on where a program still taking shape could land, and whether it holds.
Four straight annual falls, over a period when aggregate real household wealth dropped 19%.
The regulation on the books sets a floor of US$1,000 and no ceiling, so State may need no new rulemaking to reach six figures.
Five governments chose Grenada to host the Caribbean’s first regional CBI regulator. That decision tells investors more about program durability than any marketing brochure could.
Ernest Hilaire says Brussels shifted from fixing programs to ending them; Dominica’s opposition puts CBI at 56.7% of recurrent revenue.
The investment migration community will gather for the Argentina CBI program launch at IMI Connect Buenos Aires November 2-4, 2026.
The country’s experience hints at a lucrative “life after Schengen” that Caribbean leaders will observe closely.
MIBS Group presents three Golden Visa-eligible opportunities across prime Athens, starting at €250,000.
A parent’s guide to the unannounced deadlines by which at least ten countries strip birthright nationality from young adults.
No unicorns. No luxury resorts. Just companies paying interest. 3CC on the quiet case for Portuguese corporate bonds.
Mark Brantley says reform was never going to work and Malta was the warning. Part of his plan for after 2028 is a stalled project.
Seized equipment could churn out Canadian, French, Swiss, Czech, and Italian passports. No federal agency appears in the SQ’s account.
Listed Russians can’t renew their passport. They also can’t renounce it.
Strip away the residence permit and weigh seven golden visa cities purely as long-term property bets. On IMI’s Global Property Scoreboard, the popular European favorites land near the bottom and the Gulf markets lead, with Abu Dhabi first.
Antigua & Barbuda is the only Caribbean citizenship program with a route genuinely designed for large families. For a household of six or more, the math works out cheaper per person than any similar citizenship program.
Section 17 makes the foreign mother the only parent that counts, and the 2024 reform does not reach anyone already born.
“The ancestry route has become a bureaucratic minefield characterized by rigid language requirements, extensive document checks stretching back generations and swelling processing times of five to six years.”
The zero-tax zone will have special courts, a presidentially appointed governor, and a ring-fenced offshore enclave. Philippe May: “Looks like they are desperate.”
Seven years after it stalled, Kenya’s golden visa is back on the table, with almost everything still left to decide.
Applicants investing $5 million can also qualify if they create substantial local jobs; a pending directive will set the exact quotas.
Birthright citizenship survives in 80 countries, but the rule that matters for a globally mobile family is whether it applies automatically or comes with conditions on where the parents were born or how long they have lived there. Here is where each country stands.
Venture funding across the Middle East fell in the first half. But those deals were done before the missiles, so the real reckoning is still to come.
Most people plan where to move. Few ask what their current country can do to stop them. From exit bans to exit taxes to passport revocation, here are the six tools governments use to keep people in place, and the one thing they all have in common.
Pound for pound, one of the most powerful citizenship-by-investment propositions the market has seen. And passport power is the least interesting thing about it.
The 2022 rulebook constraining officers is gone; case-by-case judgment over benefit use returns, and investors are the one group untouched.
Your passport can be revoked, frozen at the border, or downgraded overnight, and your government may not reach you in a crisis. The case for holding more than one citizenship in 2026, vulnerability by vulnerability.
Passport power is usually scored by how many borders you can cross. The measure that counts on a bad day is what happens when you need help abroad. On network reach, service quality, and crisis evacuation, one form of citizenship stands out, and the rankings largely miss it.
Police identified 33 foreign victims whose accounts the lawyer accessed under the pretext of expediting applications. The money is “entirely dissipated.”
Passport rankings measure how many countries you can enter for a short visit. They say nothing about where you can settle, work, and stay. Visa-free access and the right of residence are two different legal instruments, and only a handful of citizenships bundle both.
Browne frames the bill as regional housekeeping rather than a reply to Brussels. Experts agree on the timing but split on the cost.
Permit conversions and a cooling property market kept volumes high through the Gulf’s most turbulent year in decades.
The three-million figure is a police-union multiplier, not a count, and Spain’s income rules make reunification far from automatic.
The state gained 28,000 millionaires and still lost billions in potential tax revenue, a paradox now at the center of one of America’s fiercest tax debates.
The stock route gets 50% pricier, tilting the program decisively toward active business; approvals average 85 a year against a 500 cap.