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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.
22 Aug 2026
Investment citizenship and investor residence are routinely presented as the same product at two prices. They are different legal instruments, and the difference shows up after the money has been paid.
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22 Aug 2026
Investor residence is described as buying a flat and receiving a card. In the two European programmes examined, the rules no longer say that; the difference decides whether money is locked, recoverable or gone.
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21 Aug 2026
Spain's route is gone from the statute book. The programmes still standing have narrowed what counts as a qualifying asset. The question is no longer which is easiest, but which is still open and what it buys.
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20 Aug 2026
For anyone pursuing a second citizenship, capital is rarely the hardest barrier. The vetting runs alongside the investment and can end the whole application on its own.
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20 Aug 2026
Investors compare these programmes on capital. The clause that decides whether a permit is a convenience or a first rung is the presence requirement — and most authorities do not publish it clearly.
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7 Aug 2026
Case C-181/23 set an EU-law limit on how a member state may confer citizenship. For investors, the task is to identify what survives the judgment and Malta's amendments, not to accept a vague replacement.
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5 Aug 2026
The measure is not yet effective, but it could alter the value of investment-linked permanent residence by bringing the travel calendar used to retain status close to a separate domestic tax threshold.
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3 Aug 2026
The headline minimum is only the starting point: Investors must choose between fund and corporate risk in Portugal and ownership, liquidity and property-use risk in Greece.
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27 Jul 2026
The cost of living for wealthy families includes taxes, housing, education and services, not just prices. How to read costs in Lisbon, Dubai and Singapore.
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27 Jul 2026
The EU reviews visa exemptions for citizenship-by-investment countries; in the Commission's view, running such a programme may in itself be a basis to consider suspending Schengen access.
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