Canada extended its ban and Australia froze sales of existing homes, while New Zealand and Saudi Arabia opened their doors again. What you can own, market by market.
Five Nordic capitals share near-identical institutions, yet the Global Property Scoreboard spreads them from first place to 82nd. Timing and access open the gap.
Belgium became the 17th country to tax you on the way out when its new capital gains regime took effect in January 2026. What each of the 17 charges, who it reaches, and which ones let you defer.
The drafting is finished and the bill reaches parliament in October, at 1% a year on wealth above one billion forint. Hungary’s last wealth tax was struck down over the same problem the new one has yet to solve, which is how to value a stake in a private company.
Dominican citizenship has never made anyone a tax resident, so the flat 10% rate and the end of worldwide taxation reach the retirees and remote workers who move there, rather than the citizens by investment who remain abroad.
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 A residence permit with no expiry date can still lapse through time abroad, fail to renew, or be withdrawn for a criminal record or a broken tie to the country.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.
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.
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.
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.
A second passport carries obligations that attach the moment you hold it. These 11 rules, from generation caps on descent to exit taxes on renunciation, tend to surface only after the deadline to act on them has passed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Gulf’s residence-by-investment race is now a six-country field, from the UAE’s AED 2 million benchmark to Bahrain’s newly cut entry price. Here is what each program costs, what it delivers, and the one thing none of them will give you: A passport.
The levers that decide a child’s citizenship, from where they are born to which passports they inherit, mostly close at 18. A practical guide for parents who want to plan the portfolio early.
