IMI found 21 countries that can tax some people after they move abroad. In 16 of them, the rule depends on your citizenship.
Orience’s Krista Victorio maps Spain’s two income-based visas and the Italian route for investors who will not relocate.
Citizenship you were born with or naturalized into feels permanent. Hold two, and a handful of countries attach a quiet maintenance obligation, reclaiming the second passport if you let the paperwork or the ties lapse.
The People’s Party, which fought golden visa abolition, leads the polls; the Sahrawi citizenship bill goes back to square one.
Thailand hasn’t stripped a dual national of citizenship since 1965. Kuwait tolerated it for decades, then revoked 50,000 citizenships in a year.
Tax residence is a separate test from immigration status, and only Argentina and Hungary write a permit into it. For every other country on this list, your wealth tax bill turns on days present and on where your assets are.
Cleared weeks after the Ceuta crisis, the bill now faces a conservative-held Senate and an opposition with a proven appetite for litigation.
Three governments will grant residency against the same account, because none of them asks for the money itself.
From Athens’ €50,000 Airbnb fines to Dubai’s anything-goes freeholds, what golden visa investors may do with a qualifying property now varies wildly.
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.
In nine of them, the loss happens automatically, with no order issued and no notice served.
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.
Rome reintroduced air and sea checks for one month; Brussels rejected the wider demand to strip Spain of Schengen membership.
A parent’s guide to the unannounced deadlines by which at least ten countries strip birthright nationality from young adults.
The three-million figure is a police-union multiplier, not a count, and Spain’s income rules make reunification far from automatic.
Madrid’s first general regularization since 2005 has drawn nearly twice its half-million estimate, with less than two weeks left to apply.
Spain killed its golden visa in April 2025, but three residency routes remain open. Here’s how other programs fit in.
A second passport is not the only way to expand your global mobility. The right residence permit can unlock dozens of additional destinations without the time, cost, or complexity of acquiring citizenship.
In 12 countries, time on a remote work permit counts toward citizenship, under income, family, and tax rules that differ.
Elisa de Mollinedo Suarez breaks down Madrid’s Mbappé Law and who actually benefits from the 20% deduction.
