Argentina Should Not Copy Turkey or the Caribbean. It Should Build a Third Model.
Sam Bayat
September 27, 2026
Sam Bayat thinks the biggest threat to Argentina’s CBI program isn’t the applicants. It’s the rest of us.
Category: Opinion
Maybe It’s Time We Stop Telling Americans to Renounce Their Citizenship
Ladislas Maurice
September 25, 2026
Increasingly, we get inquiries from Americans conveying their plans for renunciation and requesting info on what they can do to
What Argentina Should Take From Turkey and the Caribbean, and What It Must Leave Behind
Onur Sumer
September 24, 2026
Onur Sümer of GSC International argues Argentina can borrow mechanisms from both precedents while inheriting the conditions of neither.
CBI Has Tougher Vetting Than Golden Visas. So Why Is It the One Being Shut Down?
Tony Ebraheem
September 22, 2026
Tony Ebraheem argues governments forgive golden visas their lighter checks for one reason: A permit expires, and citizenship does not.
What If Becoming Canadian Meant You Could Also Live in Europe?
Melissa Godmer
September 20, 2026
Deeper Canada–EU mobility could reshape the value of Canadian business immigration, argues Melissa Godmer.
The Ancestor Who Left
Audra DeFalco
September 14, 2026
Why the number of generations a country lets you count back tells you almost nothing about whether you will get the passport.
Canada to Replace Start-Up Visa With High-Impact Route
Slava Apel
September 10, 2026
Slava Apel on IRCC’s new vocabulary: Elite entrepreneurs, high impact, and a 2026 federal business admissions target of 500.
Greece’s 15% Transfer Tax Reaches Conversions, the Golden Visa’s Cheapest Route
Christos Vardikos
September 7, 2026
Christos Vardikos on where the increase lands, what it leaves alone, and the window that closes with it.
Caribbean CBI Doesn’t Need an Obituary, It Needs a New Message
Joseph Boll
September 6, 2026
Joseph Boll argues the visa-free pitch has run its course, and that US and European families now want a very different conversation.
Slovakian Citizenship by Descent Reform May Allow Millions to Qualify
Zuzana Palovic
September 5, 2026
Zuzana Palovic, who campaigned for the 2022 reform, on how the descent route works now that the residence permit step is gone.
What May Be Happening Inside Your Start-Up Visa Files: New Clues From IRCC’s Own ATIP Records
Slava Apel
September 3, 2026
Access to Information releases suggest IRCC weighs Start-Up Visa applicants as a group, and that Commitment Certificates lock in early
Portugal’s Cultural Golden Visa in a Post-Real-Estate Market
Patrícia Azevedo
September 2, 2026
Portugal’s cultural route drew over 70% of its total capital in 2025 alone. Patrícia Azevedo Lopes argues it is not a cheaper fund substitute.
China Is Rewiring Its Investment Migration Market Again
Nicolas Laurin
September 2, 2026
Filing does not rebuild the market that licensing built. The client sourcing network fragmented after 2018 and has not come back together, so the providers who shrink their Chinese distribution in September will be cutting the wrong thing.
ECCIRA and the future of Caribbean Citizenship by Investment programmes
Tony Ebraheem
September 1, 2026
A regional regulator now sits above five national programmes. Brussels has already set a date for closing them anyway.
A Second Passport Protects Options, Not Assets
Eva Maria Kullmann
August 25, 2026
Eva Maria Kullmann argues the costliest error in international planning is expecting a passport to do a structure’s job.
Will the EU Take Away Visa-Free Access From the Caribbean?
Patrick Peters
August 20, 2026
Patrick Peters says it is not whether the programs survive, but instead what could survive: Smaller, more selective, and more expensive versions of the ones sold today.
Why Global Mobility Advice Should Never Have a Single Point of Failure
Slava Apel
August 15, 2026
Building a client’s mobility plan around one program, one project, or one firm is a design flaw, not a preference, argues Slava Apel.
Who Actually Loses If the Caribbean Loses Schengen
Neringa Bulakiene
August 5, 2026
Remove Europe from a Caribbean passport and you remove what justified the price, argues Migronis co-founder Neringa Bulakiene.
Argentina’s CIP Is Coming, and May Be the Most Consequential Launch in RCBI History
David Lincoln
July 19, 2026
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.
The European Golden Visa “Squeeze” and What It Means for Latin America
Anatoliy Letaev
July 14, 2026
Fewer than 700 people have used Brazil’s golden visa in five years. Anatoliy Letaev thinks Portugal just fixed that.