A Canadian judge ruled that IRCC cannot use its own instructions to justify open-ended Start-Up Visa delays, splitting the Federal Court.
The front door is narrowing; America’s wealthy have found the back one.
Fees stay below the court-stayed 2024 rates but land a month before the $800,000 minimum investment is set to rise.
Shah says the SEC never asked for files she described under oath before suing her in 2023. She wants the claim dropped and her fees paid.
Every route to citizenship has two timelines: the one its nationality law sets and the one the queue adds. Across eight routes, the second is where the surprise lives.
Taxing returns rather than net worth, the surtax would reach back to January 1. Congress already overturned one DC tax law this year.
DHS projects US$13.05 billion a year in lower benefit payouts but says it cannot estimate how many green cards the test will deny.
The EU offer covered defense, tech, and the Arctic, but not mobility. Experts put visa-free movement rights years away, if ever.
Slava Apel on IRCC’s new vocabulary: Elite entrepreneurs, high impact, and a 2026 federal business admissions target of 500.
A Maryland judge enjoined Executive Order 14418 on September 2. Two days later, DHS put one of its four categories into the rulebook.
The IRS’s Q2 2026 expatriation list is the fifth-largest ever published, putting the year on track to challenge 2020’s record of 6,707 names.
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.
Five weeks after the Supreme Court shut the wide door, the new orders go after families who bought their way through it.
The state gained 28,000 millionaires and still lost billions in potential tax revenue, a paradox now at the center of one of America’s fiercest tax debates.
“The 1815 Convention, in practice, runs one way.” A 211-year-old treaty still gets British investors into America, but not Americans into Britain. Mona Shah on why the durable part of the US-UK relationship is law, not sentiment.
The 5% tax cleared its signature hurdle on Wednesday. A day later, its backers offered to cut the rate. Six billionaires had already left.
Ottawa issued 4,075 descent certificates since December; but now suspending an undisclosed number over documentation concerns.
Mona Shah: “USCIS has just made the global residency market’s argument for It, and the industry knows it.”
Most coverage focuses on undocumented immigrants; the proposal would also flag Americans with second passports.
The agency says adjustment of status is now “extraordinary relief,” not a routine pathway; a vague “economic benefit” exemption leaves investor visa holders in limbo.
