With 30,000 biometric appointments booked for golden visa applicants, Lisbon practitioners now quote 14 to 18 months for new filings.
Pay less… for more.
The PQ would admit only economic immigrants already in Quebec; Patrick McCarthy sees the investor program as a lever the new government will use.
Chinese nationals filed half the applications. Property purchases now outweigh fixed deposits, reversing the order Malaysia reported for 2025.
Beijing’s new offshore wealth rules have put residence planning on the adviser’s agenda. Arton Capital on optionality, not tax relief.
No thresholds or timeline yet, and the 12,000 figure does not match the 7,088 golden visas officials reported to MPs in April.
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.
Paraguay admitted more than 6,500 permanent residents in 2024 and issued 45 naturalization resolutions. Brazilians took the most permits. Argentines took the most citizenships. The two lists have pointed in opposite directions for a decade.
Amendments passed at ratification rewrite the entrepreneur route, close a treaty gap in the flat tax, and add twice-yearly reporting to parliament.
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.
Shah says the SEC never asked for files she described under oath before suing her in 2023. She wants the claim dropped and her fees paid.
Georgaki Law Firm on why Greece’s property and banking routes lead Europe, and what a proposed 15% transfer tax would change.
Deeper Canada–EU mobility could reshape the value of Canadian business immigration, argues Melissa Godmer.
The bill targets a route the prime minister first proposed and would leave one investor option.
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.
More than 1,000 families in Liberty are adding the work that starts where immigration law stops, in Portugal and in Italy. The new website is available at www.libertylex.com
Growth category applicants can invest through approved managed funds only, and cannot live in what they fund.
Slava Apel on IRCC’s new vocabulary: Elite entrepreneurs, high impact, and a 2026 federal business admissions target of 500.
The start date has moved to July 1, 2027 and companies are out entirely. Georgaki, Shiapani, and Varnavas on the ten-month gap.
From a $70,000 Paraguay investment to a $1,000 Panama pension, six paths to a livable Plan B residency, all for under $100,000.