Pound for pound, one of the most powerful citizenship-by-investment propositions the market has seen. And passport power is the least interesting thing about it.
Fewer than 700 people have used Brazil’s golden visa in five years. Anatoliy Letaev thinks Portugal just fixed that.
Elena Ruda on premium Caribbean pricing, a new sub-US$100k tier, and why Americans are now among CBI’s largest buyer groups.
“The 1815 Convention, in practice, runs one way.” A 211-year-old treaty still gets British investors into America, but not Americans into Britain. Mona Shah on why the durable part of the US-UK relationship is law, not sentiment.
The passport rules didn’t change. The ground under the asset did. Rafet Aslan on Türkiye’s quieter 2026 reforms.
A pause on immigrant visas, an adjustment-of-status crackdown, and a September grandfathering deadline are converging on EB-5 applicants.
Don’t put all your flags in one jurisdiction: Letaev reads Portugal’s nationality shock as a case study in that rule.
David Lincoln argues the region investors once dismissed now offers the rarest asset in mobility: A country you would actually live in.
Mona Shah: “USCIS has just made the global residency market’s argument for It, and the industry knows it.”
Anatoliy Letaev argues the European property-visa bundle is dead, and most golden visa investors haven’t updated their models.
Paula Carello worked inside Argentina’s migration authority. She says the country isn’t close to ready for citizenship by investment.
No golden visa, no problem. Edwin Hudepol on why RCBI advisors should stop skipping Bolivia when building LatAm portfolios
Direct PR, 30% down on real estate, and a 5-day clock. Paraguay just built the most flexible investor residency in the region.
The region could sustain itself almost entirely in a worst-case scenario, David Lincoln notes.
Csaba Magyar argues that Tisza’s supermajority raises questions about the Guest Investor Program; self-employment may offer a more durable alternative.
Eva Maria Kullmann argues the Iran-US/Israel war is exposing which CBI passports actually work under pressure.
David Bonellie argues Portugal’s new citizenship law punishes committed residents instead of testing genuine integration.
Algorithmic border systems are quietly reshaping global mobility; passport rankings fail to capture the risk.
Of 2.9 million BNO citizens, over two million don’t hold a valid passport. Many may not know they have this citizenship at all.
Fernando Ferreira argues that institutional investors’ fixation on track records may be costing them the best returns in venture capital.