Renunciants holding visa-waiver citizenships are being told to apply for visas instead. No public rule has been issued.
The proposal may shut out open-ended funds and would halve the threshold for the research route. Committee votes start November 18.
Peters turned a St. Kitts & Nevis contribution option into finished homes for local families, a result few in CBI can point to.
PM Browne’s October 30 letter to Brussels accepts closure in principle, then asks for two and a half more years and EU compensation.
The route runs through government-designated development projects, and citizenship can follow after 360 days on the island.
A cliffside villa in Mauritius, a lagoon house in Dubai, and Thai pool villas on Phuket: five homes for the months the rest of the world spends indoors.
A second passport rarely decides who taxes your estate. Where you lived, the citizenship you started with, and where the assets sit usually do.
The Treasury doubted the growth case and the visa’s main backer lost his job, but Downing Street hasn’t closed the door.
Non-EU investor residency routes stay unchanged, while EU nationals swap investment-based permits for EU rights rationed by quota.
Spain’s nomad visa now wants €2,849. Italy’s self-employment permit asks for €8,500 a year, and Portugal’s D2 starts at the minimum wage.
Eleven of 17 European founder routes ask for no capital upfront. The real bill is living money, from £1,270 in the UK to €22,404 in France.
Experts predict a change in who pays rather than a tax cut, and doubt it would keep wealthy French families from leaving.
Armenia asks only for Armenian origin until a 2028 draft adds residence. Chile reaches the grandchild. Most others stop at one generation.
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.
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.
Germany, Brazil, and Russia still shield citizens by constitution. Two Latin American bans just fell, and a new passport rarely counts.
The People’s Party, which fought golden visa abolition, leads the polls; the Sahrawi citizenship bill goes back to square one.
