For a lone applicant, the Heritage route now costs US$25,000 more than the new Solo option, which needs no DNA test.
Amendments passed at ratification rewrite the entrepreneur route, close a treaty gap in the flat tax, and add twice-yearly reporting to parliament.
US$300,000 still qualifies if the property passes one test. A new, cheaper deposit route comes with a condition of its own.
Dutch investors keep the notional-return system until at least 2029 while the government drafts a tax charged only at the point of sale.
Beijing codifies its power to keep citizens home. Lesperance says wealthy Chinese are leaving “before they get the knock on the door.”
Skopje removes the price tag but keeps the product: discretionary passports for “special interest” individuals remain on the table.
Growth category applicants can invest through approved managed funds only, and cannot live in what they fund.
Filing by September 14 preserves the old rules and a five-year permit; the €150,000 fund route replacing them is not yet operational.
Marco Mesina explains the landmark ruling that ends the two-year “minor issue” saga, and who stands to benefit.
Three of the five changes to the Active Investor Plus visa add evidentiary weight. One lifts it, and none touch the thresholds.
Firms already trading have until mid-December to file, and overseas companies may no longer sell the services inside China directly.
Applicants investing $5 million can also qualify if they create substantial local jobs; a pending directive will set the exact quotas.
Browne frames the bill as regional housekeeping rather than a reply to Brussels. Experts agree on the timing but split on the cost.
The stock route gets 50% pricier, tilting the program decisively toward active business; approvals average 85 a year against a 500 cap.
The government explicitly barred franchises at launch. Seven months and “a single approval” later, it is changing course.
The June overhaul also closes the pensioner route, rules out digital nomads, and doubles the path to full status to 20 years.
The government’s draft cleared committee but not Parliament, asking for half a million dollars to settle in a still-frozen economy.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says successful applicants must now travel to Dominica to receive and renew their passports, ending the program’s no-visit model and moving it in step with neighboring states under US and EU pressure.
From June 15, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Nicaragua lose visa-free access to Ireland. The move follows the UK and runs alongside a hardening EU stance on golden passports.
Growth category applicants can direct up to 20% of their investment toward charities; the option was previously limited to the Balanced tier.