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 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
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Easing Residency / nationality Malaysia: Forcibly Returning Myanmar Refugees Risks Lives
Click to expand r les réfugiés à Kuala Lumpur, en Malaisie, le 27 juillet 2026. © 2026 Hasnoor Hussain/Reuters (Bangkok) – The Malaysian government should reverse plans that would permit the forced return of refugees to Myanmar, where they face persecution and other rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 23, 2026, Malaysia’s deputy foreign minister informed parliament that 5,000….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Introducing IMI Market Pulse: 3 Months of Investment Migration, Distilled
A new quarterly report on the changes that mattered between May and July, and what they mean for the immediate future.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Last Chance to Register: Meet the Experts at IMI’s Argentina Live Private Briefing, Vol. 4
Three specialists, one a former adviser to Argentina's migration directorate, on where the still-forming citizenship program lands.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Argentina’s CIP A “Game-Changer”: 10 On The Weekend with Dan Brotman
Argentina would be a "game-changer for the investment migration industry, which is currently facing a shortage of new citizenship by investment programs.".
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Italy Suspends Schengen Free Movement With Spain After Ceuta Crossings
Rome reintroduced air and sea checks for one month; Brussels rejected the wider demand to strip Spain of Schengen membership.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality When a Second Citizenship Makes Travel Harder Instead of Easier
Buying a second citizenship widens your options on paper. It can also close doors at the border, and some of those doors stay shut no matter which passport you present.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Greece Didn’t Just Keep Its Golden Visa. It Turned It Into an Economic Recovery Engine
Record FDI, the eurozone's fastest debt reduction, and Europe's leading real estate residence route: the official numbers behind Greece's rise.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality 7 Reasons to Be in Buenos Aires Ahead of Argentina’s CBI Program Launch
The investment migration community will gather for the Argentina CBI program launch at IMI Connect Buenos Aires November 2-4, 2026.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Vanuatu CBI Revenue Higher Than Ever Despite Loss of Visa-Free Europe
The country's experience hints at a lucrative "life after Schengen" that Caribbean leaders will observe closely.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mixed Residency / nationality Inside the Hidden Gems of Athens’s Most Wanted Neighborhoods
MIBS Group presents three Golden Visa-eligible opportunities across prime Athens, starting at €250,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Easing Residency / nationality Proposed DHS Work Authorization Rule Threatens Immigrant Domestic Violence Survivors
Click to expand trategies for preparing their families if a parent is detained or deported, January 17, 2025. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a policy change in June that would significantly limit employment authorization available for many immigrants. But for many, including survivors of domestic violence, the ability to work in the United States is cruci….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mixed Residency / nationality Joint Statement: Urgent Call to Thai Government to Halt the Forcible Return of Journalist Bai Zhaodong to China
zevans@freedom… igned press freedom, journalists', human rights, and international organisations, urgently call on the Thai authorities to refrain from forcibly returning detained Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong to China. This appeal follows confirmation from local sources that Bai, who is currently held at the Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok, faces an imminent risk of deportation. In Septe….
Source · Freedom House