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Allègement Résidence / nationalité Thailand: Two Uyghurs at Risk of Return to China
Click to expand nuary 21, 2019. © 2019 Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should not forcibly return two Uyghur men to China, where they face grave risks of torture and other serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité IMI Exclusive: Demand for Italy’s Investor Visa Has Nearly Tripled in Two Years
Americans have filed more applications in 2026 than all nationalities did in 2024, and the €250,000 startup route has doubled its share.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Latitude Opens Buenos Aires Office to Support Clients and Partners in Argentina
A Buenos Aires base for biometrics, hosting, and concierge support as firms prepare to offer Argentina’s citizenship by investment program.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité “A Monumental Act of Economic Self-Harm”: Investment Migration People in the News This Week
“By either dithering over the decision or by saying no to a new investor visa, the Government is actively sending a message loud and clear to the global wealthy, the investors, the business creators and industry innovators, that UK Plc is closed for business, please go elsewhere.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Barbados House Passes Investor Residence Bill With a Fast Lane to Citizenship
The route runs through government-designated development projects, and citizenship can follow after 360 days on the island.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité The Asset You Cannot Put in a Trust: Your Right to Leave
Investors spread their money across legal systems but often leave themselves tied to one, Enis Sljivo writes. A trust protects assets; a second citizenship protects the person.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Welcome to IMI Official Partners: Nexor Family Office Folds RCBI Into the Family Wealth Plan
Learn more about IMI's Official Partner, Nexor, and why it plans a family's second passport alongside its tax and estate affairs.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Greek Golden Visa Backlog Falls Below Half of Its Peak as Applications Level Off
Pending applications fell to 25,970 in September, less than half of the 52,821 peak in March 2025.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Allègement Résidence / nationalité US: New Hurdles to Having Votes Counted
Click to expand County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) on Election Day, November 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – US states’ use of a tool to verify citizenship that is marred by inaccurate and incomplete data is creating new hurdles for the right to vote with the midterm elections only days away, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Latvia Orders Review of Golden Visa Permits Linked to Academy of Sciences Scandal
A company advertised help with permits for €50,000 stakes in a care home that does not yet exist, according to local reports.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Introducing Mira: Mirabello Consultancy Launches a Free AI Guide for Immigration and Relocation
Mirabello Consultancy's new AI answers immigration and relocation questions in 11 languages, free, using verified data from 190+ countries.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Where Your Heirs Pay: Inheritance Tax for the Globally Mobile
A second passport rarely decides who taxes your estate. Where you lived, the citizenship you started with, and where the assets sit usually do.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité A Guide to Athens’ €250K Golden Visa Properties
Five converted buildings in North Athens, Kallithea, and Piraeus selling furnished apartments eligible for the €250K golden visa.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Antigua Leans Toward Suspending CIP Ahead of EU Deadline on November 12
Antigua and Barbuda's Cabinet leans toward suspending its citizenship program to preserve visa-free travel to Europe.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité UK Investor Visa Would Be “A No-Brainer”: Investment Migration People in the News This Week
“I think it is an easy sell with the electorate too, particularly if the route requires genuine and impactful investment into the UK economy.”.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Greece’s Proposed 15% Property Transfer Tax Could Set Off a Golden Visa Buying Rush
Developers may not launch new projects before July 2027, and buyers who move early will take the best of what already exists.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité UK Drops £5 Million Investor Visa From October 28 Budget
The Treasury doubted the growth case and the visa’s main backer lost his job, but Downing Street hasn’t closed the door.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Helios Residences Mezzanine Apartments in Kallithea
The last mezzanine apartment at Helios Residences in Kallithea qualifies for the Greece Golden Visa program from €250,000.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité How One Appeal Reopened Slovak Citizenship to Families of Pre-1918 Emigrants
Families whose ancestors became US citizens before 1918 were long told they had no claim. A June 2025 ministerial decision changed that.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Turks and Caicos Proposes 25-Year Investor Permits, Ending Permanent Residency by Investment
The permit would bar holders from permanent residence, which investors need to naturalize as British Overseas Territories citizens.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Portugal Golden Visa in 2026: From Immigration to Long-Term Wealth Strategy
Why European optionality, geographic diversification, and investment management matter more than ever to American families.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité IMI Market Pulse V2: Three Months of Investment Migration, Distilled
Why spend time reading three months’ worth of investment migration articles when you can get it done in 15 minutes? IMI Market Pulse V2 is out now.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité European Self-Employment Visas You Can Qualify for on €2,000 a Month
Spain's nomad visa now wants €2,849. Italy's self-employment permit asks for €8,500 a year, and Portugal's D2 starts at the minimum wage.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Allègement Résidence / nationalité US: Order ‘No ICE’ Zones during Election Period
© 2025 Olga Fedorova/AP Photo (Washington, DC) – The United States government should order federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers not to operate in the vicinity of polling places, early voting locations, or drop boxes during the midterm electoral period, Human Rights Watch said today. The presence of these federal agents could deter people from voting. “ICE officers’ abuses have alre….
Source · Human Rights Watch
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Where Next? Lisbon Summit Brings Families Face-to-Face with the Specialists Who Hold the Answers
Leave Lisbon with a plan, not a stack of notes. Reserve your place at the Wealth & Migration Summit on November 5 and 6, where attendance is capped at 200.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité UK Chancellor Healey Weighs New Investor Visa Ahead of October 28 Budget
Under one design, investors would put £5 million into a British Business Bank fund; under another, £2.5 million plus £200,000 a year in tax.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Sapfous Apartments One Minute from the Sea, Piraeus
These fully furnished apartments at Sapfous in Piraeus qualify for the Greece Golden Visa from €250,000, completing April 2027.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Bella Vista Furnished Apartments near Kallithea Metro
Bella Vista's last two furnished apartments near Kallithea metro qualify for the Greece Golden Visa from €250,000, completing November 2026.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité Last Apartment at The Socrates Living, Neo Irakleio
The last available apartment at The Socrates Living in Neo Irakleio qualifies for the Greece Golden Visa program, completing April 2027.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité The North Village Apartments in Kifissia, North Athens
The North Village in Kifissia offers furnished apartments from €250,000 qualifying for the Greece Golden Visa program.
Source · Investment Migration Insider
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Allègement Résidence / nationalité 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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Allègement Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Renforcement Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité “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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Renforcement Résidence / nationalité 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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Renforcement Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité “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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Allègement Résidence / nationalité 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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Allègement Résidence / nationalité L’Argentine annonce une citoyenneté par investissement
Le 2 octobre 2026, Luis Caputo annonce deux voies pour le demandeur principal : 350 000 USD d’apport non remboursable au Trésor, ou 800 000 USD de titre public. Conjoint et enfant de 18 à 25 ans, célibataire et sans enfant : 100 000 USD. Mineur : 25 000 USD. Famille type (demandeur, conjoint, deux mineurs) : 500 000 USD par l’apport. Demandes visées au 4e trimestre 2026.
Source · Presidencia de la Nación
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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Allègement Résidence / nationalité 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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Allègement Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Renforcement Résidence / nationalité 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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Allègement Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Renforcement Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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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Mitigé Résidence / nationalité 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