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4 Oct 2026
Nine-month growth was an estimated 9.01%, against a double-digit government goal. Inflation averaged 4.52%, the gold price index averaged 42.67% above a year earlier, and goods trade ran a US$19.42bn deficit.
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Up to half the minimum investment may be withdrawn a year after the 10-year visa is issued; a separate one-year remote-work visa asks the main applicant for a monthly remittance of at least USD 2,000.
Read →2 Oct 2026
Vietnam's finance ministry puts individuals' crypto tax at 0.1% of transfer prices; domestic investors face fines outside ministry-licensed providers six months after the first licence.
Read →2 Oct 2026
No official draft of a Vietnamese golden visa was found in the texts reviewed. Qualifying investors can obtain business-linked residence cards, and some may be considered for Vietnamese citizenship.
Read →1 Oct 2026
Vietnam's new FTSE status took effect on 21 September, the government says, with the first of four inclusion steps; FDI disbursed in January to August was the highest for that period in five years.
Read →1 Oct 2026
Latvia starts its five-year citizenship clock only at permanent residence, and the ordinary routes of Indonesia, Latvia and, in its 2017 text, the UAE make Vietnamese applicants renounce their nationality.
Read →30 Sep 2026
Silver requires a USD 150,000 deposit and a home worth at least RM600,000; in 2024 the minister said new Platinum, Gold and Silver participants could not apply for permanent residence.
Read →29 Sep 2026
Money or staff once satisfied it; the new test takes both, plus a Japanese speaker, a qualifying background and an outside verifier, and the investor route whose deadline passed in March 2025 is still a draft.
Read →28 Sep 2026
The department that issues the residential visa lists an investor at USD 200 for the first year, and the department that recommends the application publishes one uncategorised line reading USD 700.
Read →28 Sep 2026
Vietnam's AI rules set criteria for not proposing advice-only systems as high-risk; a laboratory preprint finds people often follow wrong AI answers, without measuring investment returns.
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