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Investor residence and citizenship across Europe: what each threshold actually totals, how permanent residence leads to citizenship, and EU scrutiny of visa-free access.
16 Sep 2026
The figure is read off the tax office's assessment rather than the contract, and renewals of property permits issued before 17 January 2026 are still decided under the previous law.
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16 Sep 2026
The Interior Ministry's criteria for citizenship in the special interest of the Republic carry no euro figure at all, and state that mere flows of money are not sufficient.
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16 Sep 2026
The European Commission asked in December 2025 that the scheme be abolished and its legal basis repealed. Article 11 incorporates two ordinary naturalisation conditions and adds a national-interest test.
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15 Sep 2026
The Department describes a General Scheme proposing to raise reckonable residence from five to eight years for most applicants, and says it had still to be published on 9 September.
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15 Sep 2026
Vietnam deposited its instrument of accession on 31 December 2025, and the Government's portal names the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the competent authority for the certificate.
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14 Sep 2026
Category F asks a secured annual income of at least €9,568, a figure the department still prints beside the Cyprus pound; the route under the next regulation asks at least €50,000 and €300,000 of capital.
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13 Sep 2026
The word reformado appears nowhere in the act's consolidated text; it appears in the regulation made under it and in the ministerial order that sets a twelve-month test for that category.
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7 Sep 2026
From 1 July 2027, against today's 3%, the announced rate would add €96,000 in tax on an €800,000 taxable value — the investor threshold in Attica, Thessaloniki and the larger islands. No bill is yet tabled.
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4 Sep 2026
A government resolution orders the rules to be drafted while the rate and the threshold remain unpublished, and the guest investor permit does not by itself establish tax residence.
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3 Sep 2026
The Immigration Law the Saeima adopted in August sets no commencement date of its own, so the Constitution fixed one for it. The register now shows where the count stopped, and what stops with it.
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