
Three Parties File Competing Proposals Ahead of Portugal Nationality Law Debate
PS proposes 6/9-year timelines with grandfathering; PSD/CDS-PP eliminate phase-in for current residents; Chega sets lowest criminal bar.

PS proposes 6/9-year timelines with grandfathering; PSD/CDS-PP eliminate phase-in for current residents; Chega sets lowest criminal bar.

He left for India on a family trip. When he tried to fly back, his ten-year golden visa no longer existed.

“Behind every policy debate, there’s a child who needs a sense of home. Navigating uncertainty is part of our work.”

3,172 approvals and nearly US$1B in deposits and property; MM2H’s rebound from its disastrous 2021 overhaul is now quantifiable.

The data feed the EU’s new visa suspension mechanism, which lowered the overstay threshold that can trigger loss of visa-free access.

Roseau reverses course on a market it reopened just four years ago amid the US-Iran war; however, some caveats still apply.

New rules may apply retroactively to pending cases; the parliamentary naturalization system leaves applicants with no legal recourse.

Existing CBI passports issued before April 14 expire for travel purposes on July 31, 2027 unless holders complete biometric enrollment.

Of 2.9 million BNO citizens, over two million don’t hold a valid passport. Many may not know they have this citizenship at all.

The bill cleared both chambers after the longest floor debate in state history; if signed, Seattle’s combined top rate would reach 18%, the highest in the US.

14 months after the first announcement, Wheatley says discussions continue; no thresholds or timeline have been set. Explains why the country will never have a CBI program.

October’s consular expansion for Golden Visa holders gets its first real-world test as airspace closures strand hundreds abroad.

A bitcoin billionaire’s US$100-a-month offer to every Nevisian has split the federation’s politicians. The CBI angle is bigger.

Marco Mesina maps the three narrow paths to Italian citizenship that survived the Constitutional Court’s ruling.

Federico Salmoiraghi maps the wealth-type charges that Italian tax residents face on both foreign and domestic assets.

Asim Umer Wani: “My biggest concern right now is the constant regulatory changes in the investment migration industry.”

Court rejects constitutional challenges to Italy’s citizenship-by-descent reform on four separate grounds.

A jurisdiction long favored by Bitcoin holders for its territorial tax regime and non-CRS status now requires transaction-hash disclosure above US$5,000 a year.

Learn more about IMI’s Official Partner, GSC International, and how the boutique global law firm’s two decades of corporate practice inform its approach to RCBI.

Citizenship Commission chairman says March 9 memo restricting Russian and Sudanese applicants was released in error; both nationalities remain eligible.