A general-purpose AI assistant asked what the Greek golden visa costs may answer from training data a year or more out of date.
IMI now gives AI assistants and software developers free, read-only access to its investment migration data. An assistant connected to IMI looks up the answer in IMI’s records instead.
Each answer gives current minimums, physical presence rules, timelines to citizenship, and the date IMI last checked the figures. It also links back to the source.
What it means in practice
- A wealth manager asks which golden visas cost under US$300,000 and lead to citizenship within eight years. A sourced shortlist arrives in seconds.
- A family office checks whether a firm appears on Grenada’s official list of approved citizenship by investment agents.
- An investor weighing a U.S. EB-5 project checks whether the sponsoring regional center remains on the approved list of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
- A researcher pulls annual approval figures for the Greek golden visa without copying numbers from a PDF.
- A developer builds a comparison tool or chatbot on the data instead of collecting and maintaining it.
What is inside
- Residence and citizenship programs: 328 of them, from golden visas and citizenship by investment to digital nomad, retirement, talent, and descent routes. Each entry lists investment minimums, income requirements, physical presence rules, years to permanent residence and citizenship, and visa-free access.
- Citizenship paths for 195 countries, from the IMI Citizenship Catalog: Naturalization, marriage, descent, investment, birthright, and dual citizenship rules.
- Settlement blocs: The 19 Supranational Settlement Blocs are treaties and arrangements that let a citizen of one member country settle in the others. Examples include EU free movement, Mercosur in South America, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
- Government-approved agents for the Caribbean and Pacific citizenship by investment programs, taken from the official lists.
- U.S. EB-5 regional centers: The 572 centers USCIS lists as approved as of October 26, 2026, and the 786 it has terminated. You can search them by name, USCIS ID, and state, and each terminated entry shows its termination date and whether an appeal is pending.
- Official statistics on applications, approvals, nationalities, and processing times.
- A dated change log showing when program minimums, timelines, citizenship rules, agent lists, and EB-5 regional center approvals change.
- Upcoming IMI Connect events and the latest IMI headlines.
Counts reflect the data at publication. The data refreshes automatically several times a day from IMI’s own records and the official government lists it tracks.
For the technically minded
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://www.imidaily.com/mcp gives AI assistants twelve read-only tools they can call directly. It uses Streamable HTTP and needs no authentication.
MCP is an open standard that Claude, Cursor, and many other AI tools support. The server is listed in the official MCP Registry as com.imidaily/data.
A REST application programming interface (API) at https://www.imidaily.com/api/v1 returns JSON, and its OpenAPI specification is at imidaily.com/api/openapi.json. Both allow up to 60 requests per minute per client.
How to connect
In Claude, open Customize > Connectors, add a custom connector, and paste https://www.imidaily.com/mcp. This works on the free Claude plan, which allows one custom connector.
On Team and Enterprise plans, an organization Owner adds the connector, and each member then connects to it.
In Cursor or any other tool that supports MCP, add the same URL as a remote MCP server. No account or key is needed.
Full documentation and examples are at imidaily.com/api.
Terms of use
Use is free, commercial products included, as long as you credit “IMI Daily” with a link. The terms of use do not allow wholesale republishing of the datasets.
As with everything IMI publishes, the data is general information and is not legal, tax, or investment advice. USCIS states that its approval of a regional center does not endorse the center’s activities.
The terms ask users to confirm requirements with the official source or a licensed professional before acting. Corrections and suggestions for new datasets can go through IMI’s contact page.
IMI program guide: United States EB-5 Visa
