Latin America increasingly wants capital or time. For a Plan B without relocating, investing is now the way in, David Lincoln argues.
Nicolas Laurin calculates that, on the reported terms, a fully financed US$800,000 bond costs more than the US$350,000 contribution.
Dr. Aly El Dakroury argues that residency incentives should reward what an investment builds, not what it costs.
Adam Juchniewicz argues that a US$350,000 citizenship must be able to outlast the president who created it.
Panama launched a premium visa, then tightened its cheap one. Mikkel Thorup argues Paraguay has begun the same sequence.
Aly El Dakroury argues that governance, not marketing, will decide whether Argentina’s citizenship programme lasts.
Andrew Tate’s ‘Schrodinger’s Citizenship’ situation has exposed a bigger question, writes Joseph Boll: When a sovereign state grants citizenship, is it prepared to stand behind it?
Sam Bayat thinks the biggest threat to Argentina’s CBI program isn’t the applicants. It’s the rest of us.
Increasingly, we get inquiries from Americans conveying their plans for renunciation and requesting info on what they can do to
Onur Sümer of GSC International argues Argentina can borrow mechanisms from both precedents while inheriting the conditions of neither.
Tony Ebraheem argues governments forgive golden visas their lighter checks for one reason: A permit expires, and citizenship does not.
Deeper Canada–EU mobility could reshape the value of Canadian business immigration, argues Melissa Godmer.
Why the number of generations a country lets you count back tells you almost nothing about whether you will get the passport.
Slava Apel on IRCC’s new vocabulary: Elite entrepreneurs, high impact, and a 2026 federal business admissions target of 500.
Christos Vardikos on where the increase lands, what it leaves alone, and the window that closes with it.
Joseph Boll argues the visa-free pitch has run its course, and that US and European families now want a very different conversation.
Zuzana Palovic, who campaigned for the 2022 reform, on how the descent route works now that the residence permit step is gone.
Access to Information releases suggest IRCC weighs Start-Up Visa applicants as a group, and that Commitment Certificates lock in early
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.
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.