
Vanuatu Agrees to Distinguish Investor Citizens in New Pact With Australia
The Nakamal Agreement pairs an undefined mobility benefit with a pledge to identify investor citizens separately. Signed, not yet in force.

The Nakamal Agreement pairs an undefined mobility benefit with a pledge to identify investor citizens separately. Signed, not yet in force.

The program’s second publicized stateless case revives a recognition pitch the office first ran in September 2025.

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.

A bloc-by-bloc map of the fastest realistic naturalization paths, ranked from quickest to slowest. Three speed tiers, one settlement footprint per passport, and a 2026 snapshot of what’s still in flux.

Section 39 hands program design to the Interior Ministry: No threshold, route, or timeline yet, and the bill awaits assent.

A government publication has exposed the identities of more than a hundred CBI applicants. The CIU says it had no idea.

Godwin Friday casts the program as a financing mechanism, not a growth engine, with national debt at 113% of GDP.

Roughly 60 countries still conscript citizens, and the list is growing. A second passport alone is rarely a clean exemption. Here is how investors actually structure around conscription liability in 2026.

Get Golden Visa explains why investors are replacing the “Plan B” passport with layered mobility portfolios across jurisdictions.

Erdogan’s proposal clears its only substantive legislative hurdle; Turkey is about to boast one of the world’s most interesting tax exemptions.

Aran Hawker flags Topkapı as the next Kağıthane; Güvenç Ketenci points to Ataşehir. Where does US$400K go furthest?

ClientReferrals takes home CIS26’s Global Excellence Award, announces Basseterre High School Public Benefit Option in SKN.

Paula Carello worked inside Argentina’s migration authority. She says the country isn’t close to ready for citizenship by investment.

The brochures advertise three to six months. The IMI Processing Times Tool tells a different story. Here is what each Caribbean CBI program delivers from filing to passport in 2026.

Three African countries now sell citizenship outright, with the price floor below $100,000 for the first time in three decades. Botswana is months away from making it four.

Some CBI programs license their agents, others run open markets. The same warning signs separate the careful from the careless either way.

Twelve property-based RCBI programs sit in markets yielding above 6% gross. Here is where your qualifying purchase pays you back.

Eleven months after creating the agency, Argentina puts someone at the desk. The program itself remains undefined.

Judge found authorities ignored investor’s submissions, misread the criminal timeline, and never examined statelessness.