Argentina offers a lighting-fast path to PR and citizenship to those who can maintain themselves in this cheap, fun, but challenging country.
Appetite for Panama’s investor visas is dwindling. People of independent means, however, are relocating to the country in record numbers.
Panama has approved 388 investor visas so far in 2023. In the last six years, investors account for 16% of all residence permits issued.
NTL Trust details the residency programs of Uruguay and Paraguay, two countries that epitomize the concept of a Plan B for turbulent times.
“Most of our clients now pick either the Qualified Investor or Friendly Nations visas,” says Savannah Bruce.
Immediate PR, citizenship in 3 years, free movement in most of South America, and birthright citizenship make for an interesting proposition.
So far in 2022, Panama has approved 1,229 such visas for main applicants, nearly as many as in the three preceding years combined.
Panama will keep its Qualified Investor Visa minimum investment requirement for real estate at US$300,000 for another two years.
One of the world’s lowest-cost paths to immediate permanent residency is cut off by a modernization of Paraguay’s migration law.
President Santokhi indicated that an “expert team is studying the possibilities of a citizenship by investment program.”
Panama is on track to approve more independent means visas this year than in the preceding three years combined.
Q1 figures show interest in independent means visas in Panama are reaching decade-high levels, while investor visa demand is declining.
The days of paper ties to Panama are over. The new Friendly Nations Visa is more like a traditional golden visa, explains Alastair Johnson.
Having made Bitcoin legal tender in a sovereign state for the first time, Salvadorian President Bukele now promises permanent residency to those who invest BTC 3.
Juan Antequera: Spanish naturalization is normally a 10-year process. Citizens of Spain’s former colonies, however, qualify in just two years.
As Argentina’s Peronist government introduces “one-off” wealth tax, Uruguay’s timing could not have been better.
The landlocked Mercosur member state’s $70,000 residence by investment program is more popular than you may think, especially within Latin-America.