Fifteen months after finding no fault with Tate’s file, Port Vila reverses course without naming which Citizenship Act ground it relied on.
Common-law partners, same-sex spouses, and fiancés get very different answers depending on the jurisdiction, ranging from a notary visit to an outright second file.
The zero-tax zone will have special courts, a presidentially appointed governor, and a ring-fenced offshore enclave. Philippe May: “Looks like they are desperate.”
The government explicitly barred franchises at launch. Seven months and “a single approval” later, it is changing course.
The most detailed figures the government has ever made public on the program’s outcomes arrive via a parliamentary inquiry.
MM2H approved 9,511 participants in 18 months after managing just 1,900 in the three years prior; 2,637 property transactions remain pending.
The threshold places the program within the mid‑range of an increasingly competitive digital nomad visa market; undercuts regional peers.
