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Decisions that tighten or ease rules for forming a company, obtaining residency or citizenship, or restricting individual liberties: short digests from pre-selected sources.
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Mixed Residency / nationality Five Gulf States Are “Very Close” to Starting the Schengen Visa Waiver Process, GCC Chief Says
The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council says Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar are "very close" to starting the process that could end the Schengen visa requirement for their citizens. He expects news at the summit of European Union and Gulf leaders on October 24.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality France Shouldn’t Return Afghans to Taliban Rule
Click to expand istan border in Chaman on October 19, 2025. © 2025 Abdul Basil/AFP via Getty Images France has confirmed that it has opened a “technical dialogue” with the Taliban authorities regarding forced returns to Afghanistan.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Residency / nationality Don’t Scrap the Property Golden Visa. Make It Earn Its Keep
Aly El Dakroury argues that residency incentives should reward what an investment builds, not what it costs.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Citizenship by Reelection: Argentina’s CBI Is a Bet on Milei
Adam Juchniewicz argues that a US$350,000 citizenship must be able to outlast the president who created it.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Cyprus Now Expects to Join Schengen in 2027, a Year Later Than Planned
Cyprus expects to join the Schengen Area in full during 2027, its deputy migration minister said on October 10. The president of Cyprus said in May 2025 that the country would join in 2026.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality What Paraguay’s Investor Pass Hints at the Future of Temporary Residency
Panama launched a premium visa, then tightened its cheap one. Mikkel Thorup argues Paraguay has begun the same sequence.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Second Passports That Lapse If You Don’t Keep Them Active
Citizenship you were born with or naturalized into feels permanent. Hold two, and a handful of e ties lapse.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Optimize Converts Its €435 Million Portugal Golden Visa Fund Into an Umbrella
Portugal's leading open-ended Golden Visa fund splits into three sub-funds matching different goals and risk profiles, eligibility intact.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Citizenship by Descent Beyond Europe: Latin America, Armenia, and the Asian Routes
Armenia asks only for Armenian origin until a 2028 draft adds residence. Chile reaches the grandchild.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality “Tanks Rolling Down Streets in Washington”: Investment Migration People in the News This Week
"They’re thinking, ‘if we have tanks rolling down streets in Washington or World War III or what have you, I may need to pick up my bags and move until the dust settles.".
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Portugal Says It Has Processed 13% of Its Golden Visa Backlog
With 30,000 biometric appointments booked for golden visa applicants, Lisbon practitioners now quote 14 to 18 months for new filings.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Revocation Risk Ranked: How Secure Is Your Citizenship by Investment?
Turkey and Cyprus have revoked in the thousands, four programs in the dozens, and five with the thinnest safeguards not at all.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Quebec’s New Government Plans Moratorium on Immigration From Abroad
The PQ would admit only economic immigrants already in Quebec; Patrick McCarthy sees the investor program as a lever the new government will use.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Greece’s Main Opposition Party Proposes Ending the Real Estate Golden Visa
PASOK wants an "Angel Visa" instead; lawyer Christina Georgaki says golden visa buyers are mostly in a different market from Greek households.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Welcome to IMI Official Partners: Plan-B Outbound Points US Immigration Expertise Outward
Learn more about IMI's Official Partner, Plan-B Outbound, and why its founder built a US firm for Americans and Canadians moving abroad.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality Argentine Opposition Files Bills in Both Chambers to Ban Citizenship by Investment
One bill would void citizenships already granted, another would keep them, and neither offers a refund.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality The Shrinking Club of Countries That Won’t Extradite Their Own Citizens
Germany, Brazil, and Russia still shield citizens by constitution. Two Latin American bans just fell, and a new passport rarely counts.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Argentina CBI Price Is Only the Beginning
Aly El Dakroury argues that governance, not marketing, will decide whether Argentina's citizenship programme lasts.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Spain to Hold Snap Election on November 29 After Congress Rejects Housing Decrees
The People's Party, which fought golden visa abolition, leads the polls; the Sahrawi citizenship bill goes back to square one.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality When You Can Sell CBI Property and Who Is Allowed to Buy It
Every Caribbean citizenship by investment program writes two restrictions into its property rules. The other decides whether the property can ever qualify anybody else, and that is the one that sets your price.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Citizenship Is Not a Rental Agreement, Even for Andrew Tate
Andrew Tate’s 'Schrodinger's Citizenship' situation has exposed a bigger question, writes Joseph Boll: When a sovereign state grants citizenship, is it prepared to stand behind it?
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality “Protect My Weekends a Little Better”: 10 On The Weekend with Onur Sümer
For GSC International's Onur Sumer, investment migration was "never really just about obtaining a passport.".
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality What Counts as Source of Funds in Investment Migration, and How to Prove It
Investment migration programs accept most lawful money, as long as you can document each step between the day you earned it and the day it reached the government account.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Latitude and the Making of Argentina’s $350,000 Citizenship Program
A founding member of the consortium advising Buenos Aires, Latitude was in Paris as Argentina confirmed two routes and a Q4 launch.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Burnham to Set Out EU Rejoin Options by November as Macron Says “Welcome Back”
At least 210,000 Britons took a second EU citizenship after 2016. The first rejoin overture from a sitting prime minister puts EU settlement rights back in play.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality US ICE Detains Son of Slain Philippine Journalist
Click to expand Adelanto, California on May 18, 2025. © 2025 Getty Images The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on September 21 detained Mark Mabasa, the 40-year old son of slain Philippine journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa, who was shot to death in Metro Manila in October 2022. Mark Mabasa had received death threats in the Philippines following the murder of his f….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Residency / nationality Argentina announces citizenship by investment
On 2 October 2026 Luis Caputo announced two routes for the principal applicant: a non-refundable USD 350,000 Treasury contribution, or a USD 800,000 government bond. Spouse and unmarried childless child aged 18 to 25: USD 100,000. Minor: USD 25,000. A typical family (applicant, spouse, two minors) pays USD 500,000 on the contribution route. Applications are aimed at the fourth quarter of 2026.
Source · Presidencia de la Nación
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Countries That Make You Report a Second Citizenship
Silence can lead to a criminal case in Russia, a fine or expulsion in Kazakhstan, or, for Spaniards living abroad, the loss of their citizenship after three years.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality US: Victims of Nicaraguan Government Risk Deportation
Click to expand Nicaraguan government, as they await their arrival at Dulles International Airport, Virginia, United States, February 9, 2023. © 2023 Kevin Lamarque/Reuters (Washington, DC) – US immigration authorities have detained at least eight Nicaraguan exiles whom the Ortega-Murillo government has stripped of their nationality, including some with pending asylum claims, Human Rights Watch said today. S….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Residency / nationality Mauritius Rights Body Calls for Marriage Equality
© 2024 Xinhua/Shutterstock The National Human Rights Commission in Mauritius earlier this year urged the government to legally recognize same-sex marriages, stating that the refusal to recognize such unions is discriminatory and lacks justification under domestic law. The Commission’s recommendation comes after two same-sex couples filed complaints alleging that the country’s civil status office’s refusal to regis….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Gardens Antigua | Citizenship-Approved Villas and Shares
The Gardens Antigua villas and shares from US$300,000 in Jolly Harbour qualify buyers for Antigua & Barbuda Citizenship by Investment.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Remarks by Commissioner Brunner at the press point on a five-point plan to strengthen resilience and security of EU external borders
European Commission Speech Brussels, 29 Sep 2026 Good morning. Later this week will discuss at the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg, where we stand and what we still need to do on migration.
Source · European Commission Press
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Best Citizenship in Every Power Alliance in 2026
BRICS, NATO and the Commonwealth give citizens of their member . That right comes from blocs like the European Union and Mercosur, so the best citizenship in each power alliance is from a country in one of those blocs.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality Cyprus to Tighten Golden Visa Before Schengen Entry, Reviews 12,000 Permits
No thresholds or timeline yet, and the 12,000 figure does not match the 7,088 golden visas officials reported to MPs in April.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality Kazakhstan Plans to Expand Its Permanent Residence Professions List From 51 to 174
Foreign specialists on Kazakhstan's professions list can apply for permanent residence without proof of financial solvency. A draft order would more than triple that list, though the new list is not yet on the government portal.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Residency or Citizenship With Bitcoin Comes Down to Proving Where Your Coins Came From
El Salvador is the only government that takes Bitcoin or USDT as the qualifying payment for citizenship. Almost every other program wants cash, so the due diligence on where your crypto came from decides your application.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Antigua and Saint Lucia Leaders Meet EU Commissioner Over CBI Phase-Out
Pierre and Gaston Browne told EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner that citizenship by investment finances development in the Eastern Caribbean. Saint Lucia's account of the meeting announced no change to the June 2028 phase-out date.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Sierra Leone Launches USD 95,000 Solo Citizenship Route, Raises Heritage Price
For a lone applicant, the Heritage route now costs US$25,000 more than the new Solo option, which needs no DNA test.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Brazilians Take Paraguay’s Residence Permits and Argentines Take Its Citizenship
Paraguay admitted more than 6,500 permanent residents in 2024 and issued 45 naturalization resolutions. Brazilians took the most permits.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Maybe It’s Time We Stop Telling Americans to Renounce Their Citizenship
Increasingly, we get inquiries from Americans conveying their plans for renunciation and requesting info on what they can do to.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality In Most Countries Permanent Residence Isn’t Permanent. Here Are the Ones Where It Is
Canada, Australia, and the UK all call their status "permanent," then take it back if you leave too long. Here is where permanent residence survives indefinite absence, and where it doesn't.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Malaysia Targets MM2H Participants Doing Business Without Permission
Malaysia's tourism minister has asked the Immigration Department to increase checks on MM2H participants who do business without permission. MOTAC lists business as permissible only on the Platinum tier, which made up 46 of the program's 3,172 approvals in 2025.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Vanuatu Denies Revoking Andrew Tate’s Citizenship
Contrary to reports, the Citizenship Office denies any decision to revoke Tate's citizenship. Daniel Agius of the Vanuatu Investment Migration Bureau tells IMI a ruling is imminent.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality How Long Citizenship Takes Once You Count the Queue
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.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality Dual Citizenship Bans: Which Countries Enforce Them and Which Look The Other Way
Thailand hasn't stripped a dual national of citizenship since 1965. Kuwait tolerated it for decades, then revoked 50,000 citizenships in a year.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Which Citizenship Programs Now Make You Show Up
All five Eastern Caribbean citizenship by investment programs face a 30-day presence rule that has not started. Most in-person steps in force today, including biometrics, interviews and oaths, can be completed abroad.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Why Is Turkish Citizenship So Popular?
From a second passport to a smart real estate investment, here is why thousands of international families continue to choose Turkey.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality What Banks Ask When You Open an Account on a CBI Passport
IMI found no published bank rule refusing people who acquired citizenship through investment. The questions banks do ask come from the OECD's list of potentially high-risk programs and a 2023 report on earlier passports.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality CBI Has Tougher Vetting Than Golden Visas. So Why Is It the One Being Shut Down?
Tony Ebraheem argues governments forgive golden visas their lighter checks for one reason: A permit expires, and citizenship does not.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Turkey to Revoke 1,070 More Citizenships in Second CBI Sham-Sale Operation
With 6,134 already canceled and 1,757 more in proceedings, Turkey's cleanup of its citizenship program is becoming a rolling operation.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Vanuatu Revokes Andrew Tate’s CBI Citizenship in Reversal of 2025 Decision
Fifteen months after finding no fault with Tate's file, Port Vila reverses course without naming which Citizenship Act ground it relied on.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality How CBI Countries Revoke Citizenship
Every citizenship by investment program can take back what it granted. The grounds are wide and rest on a minister being satisfied.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality US: Deportations to Haiti Endanger Lives
Click to expand l Airport, Haiti, August 27, 2026. © 2026 Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – Since ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti in late July 2026, US authorities have deported hundreds of Haitians back to their country, where they face threats to their lives and safety and receive little to no support, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality What If Becoming Canadian Meant You Could Also Live in Europe?
Deeper Canada–EU mobility could reshape the value of Canadian business immigration, argues Melissa Godmer.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality “Waiting is Rarely the Right Decision”: 10 On The Weekend with Brendon Wong
"The rapid changes in government regulations are a significant concern. Citizenship and residency by investment programmes are being amended, repriced, or closed with very little notice.".
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality Oversight Reports Echo HRW Findings on US Immigration Abuses
Click to expand ring an unannounced inspection by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) at ICE's now-closed immigration detention center Florida Soft-Sided Facility (FSSF) also known as Alligator Alcatraz, in Ochopee, Florida, January 21, 2026. © 2026 DHS OIG/Handout via Reuters On September 11, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General published ….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Grenada Citizenship Was Never About the Passport
Visa-free travel is arguably the least interesting benefit of a Grenadian passport. The real product is legal status: a second nationality carrying US access, tax optionality, regional rights, and something to leave your children.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Trump Threatens “Very Serious Tariffs” on Europe Over Canada Associate Membership Offer
The EU offer covered defense, tech, and the Arctic, but not mobility. Experts put visa-free movement rights years away, if ever.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality Latvia’s Progressives File Bill to Scrap €150,000 Golden Visa Fund Route
The bill targets a route the prime minister first proposed and would leave one investor option.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationalityIndividual liberties The 14 Countries With an Annual Wealth Tax and Who They Reach
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.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Ancestor Who Left
Why the number of generations a country lets you count back tells you almost nothing about whether you will get the passport.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality New Zealand Golden Visa Adds Rental Housing Option From December
Growth category applicants can invest through approved managed funds only, and cannot live in what they fund.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Spain Moves to Grant Citizenship to Up to 200,000 Sahrawis, No Residence Required
Cleared weeks after the Ceuta crisis, the bill now faces a conservative-held Senate and an opposition with a proven appetite for litigation.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Beyond the Golden Visa: Approval Is Only the Beginning
The residence card answers the mobility question. Renewals, schooling, property, and the eventual exit all remain open.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Which Citizenship by Investment Programs Make a Child Born After the Grant a Citizen
A child born after the parent's citizenship by investment grant is named in no application. Whether that child is a citizen, and what it costs, is decided by 14 nationality laws, not 14 programs.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Ireland Plans Eight Years of Residence and a Language Test for Citizenship
Eight years would place Ireland above the five-year figure used by Germany, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Luxembourg. The Justice Minister confirms that applicants four years into the current five-year clock will face the higher bar.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality After AfD’s Record State Win, Germany’s CDU Drafts Plan to End Dual Citizenship
Two years after Germany normalized dual nationality, and a record 332,500 naturalizations later, the ruling party wants a reversal.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Canada to Replace Start-Up Visa With High-Impact Route
Slava Apel on IRCC's new vocabulary: Elite entrepreneurs, high impact, and a 2026 federal business admissions target of 500.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Dubai Court Orders Fraudsters to Pay AED 4.65 Million in Golden Visa Property Con
The ruling caps a year of UAE golden visa fraud that has ranged from a viral "lifetime visa" hoax to a celebrity selling fake residencies.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Hungary Extends Abusive Migration State of Emergency
Click to expand gust 27, 2026. © 2026 Balint Szentgallay/NurPhoto via AP Photo Hungary’s government has extended until December 31 the “state of crisis caused by mass migration,” prolonging an emergency regime introduced in 2016 despite the absence of the conditions that could justify its continued use. Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced on September 4 that the government would extend the measur….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Where a Citizen Child Opens a Real Residency Route for the Parents
The "anchor baby" label promises parents an immigration shortcut most . A US-born child cannot sponsor a parent until age 21.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Greece’s 15% Transfer Tax Reaches Conversions, the Golden Visa’s Cheapest Route
Christos Vardikos on where the increase lands, what it leaves alone, and the window that closes with it.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Greece to Quintuple Property Transfer Tax to 15% for Non-EU Buyers From January 2027
The levy would add €96,000 in tax to an €800,000 Athens Golden Visa purchase. Alexander Risvas questions its legality.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Caribbean CBI Doesn’t Need an Obituary, It Needs a New Message
Joseph Boll argues the visa-free pitch has run its course, and that US and European families now want a very different conversation.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Slovakian Citizenship by Descent Reform May Allow Millions to Qualify
Zuzana Palovic, who campaigned for the 2022 reform, on how the descent route works now that the residence permit step is gone.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Latvia Promulgates New Immigration Law; Golden Visa Property and Deposit Routes End September 14
Filing by September 14 preserves the old rules and a five-year permit; the €150,000 fund route replacing them is not yet operational.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Seafront Villas near Ermioni, Peloponnese
These seafront villas in Thermisia near Ermioni qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program from €600,000 and suit Greece's Non-Dom tax regime.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship at the Highest Sustained Rate on Record
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.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality What May Be Happening Inside Your Start-Up Visa Files: New Clues From IRCC’s Own ATIP Records
Access to Information releases suggest IRCC weighs Start-Up Visa applicants as a group, and that Commitment Certificates lock in early.
Source · Investment Migration Insider