From Spain’s two-year Ibero-American track to Brazil’s one-year CPLP route: Here’s where the right first passport shortens the wait.
Every country where your foreign pension faces single-digit taxation or less. Covers dedicated retiree flat-tax regimes, 29 territorial tax jurisdictions, and the EU’s 10% flat-rate options in Romania and Bulgaria.
Le Monde reports that nearly 20,000 Russians, Ukrainians, and Moldovans gained EU access using fake ancestral documents in a scheme involving €4,000 Romanian passports.
CSAT: Golden Visa threatens Romania’s Schengen, Visa Waiver, OECD goals by undermining institutional credibility.
Investment options reportedly include €400,000 in bonds, real estate, listed shares, or ASF-authorized investment funds.
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From Q2 this year, those who hold visas to Bulgaria and Romania will be able to travel freely within the Schengen area, writes Ivan Petrov.
One client who paid thousands for a “not publicly listed” program had his passport severed upon landing and was stuck in Turkey for months.
Digital nomads who own or are employees of a company outside Romania could qualify by demonstrating a monthly income of just EUR 1,100.
As Western-EU politicians fret over the hypothetical risks of citizenship by investment, their counterparts farther east are selling passports for bribes.
Canada will hand a major boost to the value of Bulgarian and Romanian citizenship on December 1st this year, when
