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.
A regional regulator now sits above five national programmes. Brussels has already set a date for closing them anyway.
Eva Maria Kullmann argues the costliest error in international planning is expecting a passport to do a structure’s job.
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.
Building a client’s mobility plan around one program, one project, or one firm is a design flaw, not a preference, argues Slava Apel.
Remove Europe from a Caribbean passport and you remove what justified the price, argues Migronis co-founder Neringa Bulakiene.
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.”