Jurisdictional news
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 “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
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Mixed Residency / nationality Dominica Cuts Income Tax to a Flat 10% From 2027
Dominican citizenship has never made anyone a tax resident, so the flat 10% rate and the end of worldwide taxation reach the retirees and remote workers who move there, rather than the citizens by investment who remain abroad.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality Whose Side Is the Lawyer On? The Question Applicants Forget to Ask in Greece’s All-Inclusive Golden Visa Deals
Everything in Greece's turnkey Golden Visa packages is under the seller's control. What investors gain in convenience, they may give up in independent advice.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Portugal’s Cultural Golden Visa in a Post-Real-Estate Market
Portugal’s cultural route drew over 70% of its total capital in 2025 alone. Patrícia Azevedo Lopes argues it is not a cheaper fund substitute.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality China Is Rewiring Its Investment Migration Market Again
Filing does not rebuild the market that licensing built. The client sourcing network fragmented after 2018 and has not come back together, so the providers who shrink their Chinese distribution in September will be cutting the wrong thing.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationalityIndividual liberties Minnesota Truth Council Convenes for First Public Meeting
Click to expand ration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency during their immigration crackdown, Operation Metro Surge, in the state, January 30, 2026. © 2026 Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters The first public meeting of the Minnesota Truth Council, a transitional justice mechanism established to create a historical record of the federal government’s abusive immigration enforcement operations in the state ear….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality ECCIRA and the future of Caribbean Citizenship by Investment programmes
A regional regulator now sits above five national programmes. Brussels has already set a date for closing them anyway.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality Chile: Reject Constitutional Changes
Click to expand d stricter immigration enforcement, at the Plaza de Armas in Santiago, Chile, August 6, 2026. © 2026 Esteban Felix/AP Photo (Washington DC) – The Chilean Congress should reject a proposal to amend the Constitution introduced by President José Antonio Kast that would threaten a broad range of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Can You Finance a Golden Visa Investment?
Yes, no, and "don't ask, don't tell": the three answers every residency program gives when the money is borrowed.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Welcome to IMI Official Partners: CitizenX Brings a Software Model to Citizenship
Learn more about IMI's Official Partner, CitizenX, and how the Swiss platform sells to private clients, advisers, and nation-states.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality “What if the Wheels Fall Off America?”: Investment Migration People in the News This Week
"I can't take my private jet to London?" Major said, summing up the sentiment he heard from clients.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Why Permanent Residence Is Often Not Permanent
The word "permanent" promises less than most investors assume. A residence permit with no expiry date can still lapse through time abroad, fail to renew, or be withdrawn for a criminal record or a broken tie to the country.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality IMI Path Matcher: Thousands of Residency and Citizenship Paths, Filtered Against Your Profile
Answer questions about who you are and what you want, and we'll match you with residency and citizenship paths you didn't know you qualified for.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Greek Golden Visa Applications Down 39% in 2026 as Backlog Nearly Halves
With decisions now far outpacing intake, Greece's once-notorious backlog is shrinking fast as demand pivots to €250K conversions.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality What LGBTQ+ Americans Look For in Investment Migration: New Data on a Fast-Growing Segment
LGBTQ+ US residency inquiries rose 3.1× since late 2024, with same-sex couples over 55 emerging as the fastest-growing cohort, finds new research by Get Golden Visa.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Whiplash Week in Washington: Visa Freeze Vacated, 100K+ H-1B Fee Proposed, and More
The freeze covered ten CBI jurisdictions. Lesperance expects Washington's next restriction to survive the courts.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality Not Even Risk of Torture Deters Trump Administration Deportations
Click to expand , Texas, March 13, 2026. © 2026 Felix Marquez/AP Photo A US federal judge ordered the US government on August 21 to take back a Mexican man the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had deported to Mexico based on a diplomatic assurance from the Mexican government that he wouldn’t be harmed.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Elysium Gardens Apartments near the Port of Piraeus, Athens
Elysium Gardens offers furnished, rental-ready Athens apartments qualifying for the Greece Golden Visa program, with rooftop Acropolis views.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality A Second Passport Protects Options, Not Assets
Eva Maria Kullmann argues the costliest error in international planning is expecting a passport to do a structure's job.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Panama Capital-Based Visa Approvals Down 41% in H1 2026, Friendly Nations Visa Near Record Low
Approval rates held between 96% and 98%, placing the contraction on the filing side rather than in the decisions.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality What Central Asia’s New Golden Visas Actually Deliver
For three decades, Central Asia sat on the margins of the investment migration market. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan changed that in 2025.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Meridia apartments steps from Piraeus Port
Meridia's spacious 65m² apartments steps from Piraeus Port qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program, amid active waterfront regeneration.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Apartments near Kerameikos and Gazi, Central Athens
Avenue Residences' 1-bedroom apartments near Kerameikos and Gazi qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Celestia Boutique Apartments in Kallithea from €277,000
Celestia's boutique apartments in Kallithea qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program from €277,000, with long-term leasing permitted.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Affordable Athens Riviera Apartments in Moschato
These 1-bedroom apartments in Moschato qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program, located between central Athens and the Riviera coastline.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Apartments on Lake Pamvotida in Ioannina
P&I Residence's co-living apartments on Lake Pamvotida in Ioannina qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program at €250,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality 3-Bedroom Sea View Villa in Loutraki, Corinth
This 3-bedroom sea view villa in Loutraki qualifies for the Greece Golden Visa program at €400,000, one hour from Athens.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality 3-Bedroom Seaside Villas on Evia’s Euboean Gulf
Levante's 3-bedroom seaside villas on Evia's Euboean Gulf qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program at €400,000, 90 minutes from Athens.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Italy’s Top Court Rules Dual Citizens From Birth Never Lost Citizenship, Reviving Denied Descent Cases
Marco Mesina explains the landmark ruling that ends the two-year “minor issue” saga, and who stands to benefit.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Generational Trap: Which CBI Passports Can Actually Be Inherited
Turkey, Egypt, and Cambodia pass citizenship down without limit, while three of the five Caribbean programs pass nothing down automatically.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality Renting Out Your Golden Visa Property: Where It’s Allowed, Restricted, or Now Banned
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.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality New Citizenship, New Name? Where CBI Investors Can Still Do It in 2026
Turkey lets investors pick their registered name outright. The Caribbean allows changes too, on condition of full disclosure.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Will the EU Take Away Visa-Free Access From the Caribbean?
Patrick Peters says it is not whether the programs survive, but instead what could survive: Smaller, more selective, and more expensive versions of the ones sold today.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Tightening Residency / nationality Armenia to Restrict Fast-Track Descent Citizenship as Russian Armenians Drive Record 32,000 Filings in 2025
Officials say most applicants are Russian citizens who are after a travel document. Yerevan attorney Nerses Isajanyan expects a residence permit requirement.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Sponsoring an Unmarried Partner: How Golden Visa Programs Define “Couple” in 2026
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.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality US ICE to Deploy Dangerous ‘Electric Shock Gloves’
© 2026 AP Photo/Ryan Murphy, File The US Department of Homeland Security published a notice on August 10 outlining its plan to purchase US$10-$20 million worth of electric shock gloves for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The “Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter,” which the manufacturer, Compliant Technologies, refers to as “The G.L.O.V.E,” can administer a painful electric current when….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Thailand: Ethnic Karen Face Deportation to Myanmar
© 2025 Jerry Harmer/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should halt the imminent deportation of 26 ethnic Karen villagers from Phetchaburi province to Myanmar and release them from immigration detention, Human Rights Watch said today. On August 10, 2026, district and forestry officials along with the Thai military raided the Karen community in Ban Pa Deng village in Phetchaburi province’s Kaeng Krachan….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Greek Golden Visa Enters a New Phase: Faster Processing, New Thresholds, and a Strong Outlook for 2026
Processing speed is now part of the product. RISVAS & ASSOCIATES on what the Athens turnaround means for investors.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality New Zealand Bars Cross-Jurisdiction Borrowing for Its NZ$5M Investor Visa
Three of the five changes to the Active Investor Plus visa add evidentiary weight. One lifts it, and none touch the thresholds.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Top-Floor Apartment with Balcony at Riviera Suites, Faliro
This top-floor 2-bedroom apartment with a large private balcony in Faliro qualifies for the Greece Golden Visa program at €250,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality 1-bedroom Apartment in the Heart of North Athens
This 1-bedroom apartment in the heart of North Athens qualifies for the Greece Golden Visa program at €290,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Oasis Residences with 1 and 2-Bedroom Homes, Peristeri
Oasis Residences in Peristeri offers 1 and 2-bedroom apartments from €250,000, qualifying for the Greece Golden Visa program.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Last Two Apartments in Peristeri, West Athens
Curve's last two apartments with private gardens in Peristeri qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program at €250,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Why African Clients Are Choosing a Second Passport: Leaving Home Isn’t the Point
Hiran Chohan of Windsor Capital Management argues the EU's 2028 ultimatum targets a motive most of his African clients don't have.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Only 10 Ways to Get Citizenship
Whatever a passport pitch promises, the legal mechanism behind it is one of 10. This guide maps every route to citizenship in 2026, who qualifies for each, and where the doors are narrowing.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality 22 Countries Where Staying Away Too Long Can Cost You Your Citizenship
In nine of them, the loss happens automatically, with no order issued and no notice served.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality The Great American Retirement Exodus Is Accelerating, and It Now Starts at 45
Retirement migration from the US has tripled in 50 years, and Get Golden Visa's new report finds pre-retirees in their 40s and 50s driving the next wave.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Trump Signs Two More Executive Orders Against Birthright Citizenship
Five weeks after the Supreme Court shut the wide door, the new orders go after families who bought their way through it.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Where Asia’s HNWIs Are Putting Their Second-Passport Money in 2026
As millionaire migration hits new records, Singapore-based IMI Official Partner EC Holdings maps where the region's wealthy are buying second passports.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Kallithea Apartments between Central Athens and the Riviera
These 1-bedroom apartments in Kallithea, midway between central Athens and the coast, qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program at €250,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Acropolis-View Apartments near Omonia Square, Athens
These furnished 1-bedroom apartments with Acropolis views near Omonia qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program at €250,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Sierra Apartments near Agios Antonios Metro, West Athens
Sierra's 1-bedroom apartments in Peristeri qualify for the Greece Golden Visa program at €250,000 with direct metro access to central Athens.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality The 11 Citizenship Rules Most People Discover Too Late
A second passport carries obligations that attach the moment you hold it. These 11 rules, from generation caps on descent to exit taxes on renunciation, tend to surface only after the deadline to act on them has passed.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationalityIndividual liberties Technology Expands ICE’s Capacity for Abuse
Click to expand h is being used as an ICE detention center, on May 27, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Santiago/Getty Images Representatives Delia Ramirez and Hank Johnnson, both members of US Congress, held a shadow hearing on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of technology on July 15.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Bulgaria Proposes Adding a Residency Requirement to Golden Visa
Any Bulgarian permanent residency holder who fails to meet it would lose their status if the bill passes into law.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Is a Second Citizenship Hiding Inside Your Passport? A Map of Preferred-Nationality Fast Tracks
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.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Who Actually Loses If the Caribbean Loses Schengen
Remove Europe from a Caribbean passport and you remove what justified the price, argues Migronis co-founder Neringa Bulakiene.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality Azerbaijani Authorities Escalate Abuse of Detained Opposition Leader
© 2016 Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Azerbaijani authorities have imposed increasingly punitive detention conditions on Ali Karimli, chairman of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), raising serious concerns about inhuman or degrading treatment. Karimli, 61, has been held in the State Security Service detention facility since November 29, 2025.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Easing Residency / nationality Fears Over Mail-in Ballot Access in the US
Click to expand ecutive order regarding mail-in ballots, Miami, Florida, July 28, 2026. © 2026 Marta Lavandier/AP Photo A coalition of voting rights organizations renewed a motion for preliminary injunction on July 20 in Massachusetts to prevent the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14399.
Source · Human Rights Watch