With decisions now far outpacing intake, Greece’s once-notorious backlog is shrinking fast as demand pivots to €250K conversions.
Three governments will grant residency against the same account, because none of them asks for the money itself.
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.
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.”
Turkey lets investors pick their registered name outright. The Caribbean allows changes too, on condition of full disclosure.
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.
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.
Months after courts undid the world’s highest wealth tax rate, Colombia’s new president wants to abolish the levy altogether.
In nine of them, the loss happens automatically, with no order issued and no notice served.
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.
A parent’s guide to the unannounced deadlines by which at least ten countries strip birthright nationality from young adults.
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.”
Applicants investing $5 million can also qualify if they create substantial local jobs; a pending directive will set the exact quotas.
Police identified 33 foreign victims whose accounts the lawyer accessed under the pretext of expediting applications. The money is “entirely dissipated.”
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.