Get Golden Visa explores why 5.4M Americans are ditching the American Dream for life abroad—and why thousands more are following
In this second installment of the series, David Lesperance and Melvin Warshaw explore the five-step process of renouncing US citizenship.
Mel Warshaw and David Lesperance continue to outline uniquely American issues that US taxpayers need to consider when moving to Portugal.
Melvin Warshaw and David Lesperance highlight three uniquely American pitfalls US expats must consider when investing and residing abroad.
Investment in golden visa funds has already surpassed last year’s total, indicating fund investment could more than triple this year.
Portugal’s golden visa fund investment option has grown in lockstep with US participation in the program. That’s likely no coincidence.
Winners, losers, surprises, and new trends. These are five graphs that characterize the year in golden visa programs.
In November, the Chinese were displaced from their pole position for the second time in the program’s history – this time by Americans.
Which programs have American investor migrants been applying to in 2020 and 2021 YTD? Here’s the data we have confirmed so far.
26% of respondents in this year’s Investment Migration Executive Survey said North America was their fastest-growing source market. That’s up from 0% in 2019.
David Lesperance: Democrat Senators’ assertions notwithstanding, US citizens are renouncing citizenships at the mere prospect of wealth taxes.
IMI readers ask: What are the investor migrant trends among Americans, Malaysians, and South Koreans in the last five years?
“For some, it is dissatisfaction with Trump; for others, it’s apprehensions about Biden,” says Lisbon-based lawyer Patricia Valadas Coriel.
More than NZ$ 1bn of investor visa funds, half of it from the US, are knocking on New Zealand’s door, which, due to COVID, remains closed.
