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.
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.
Ernest Hilaire says Brussels shifted from fixing programs to ending them; Dominica’s opposition puts CBI at 56.7% of recurrent revenue.
The country’s experience hints at a lucrative “life after Schengen” that Caribbean leaders will observe closely.
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.
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.”
Seven years after it stalled, Kenya’s golden visa is back on the table, with almost everything still left to decide.
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.
The 2022 rulebook constraining officers is gone; case-by-case judgment over benefit use returns, and investors are the one group untouched.
The three-million figure is a police-union multiplier, not a count, and Spain’s income rules make reunification far from automatic.
A first multilateral biometric arrangement for DHS. It sharpens CBI vetting but leaves Proclamation 10998’s visa restrictions untouched.