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Oceania comprises Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific island nations of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
3 Oct 2026
A 2023 amendment wrote investment evidence into the naturalisation test and raised the general residence requirement to ten years; parliament's 2022–2026 registers show no investment-citizenship bill.
Read →1 Oct 2026
Renewal of a passport issued under the closed programme turns on proof of lawful issuance and a place on a statutory Master List; in 2020 the state auditor reported no complete record of who obtained one.
Read →29 Sep 2026
Subclass 858 replaced Global Talent in December 2024 and is invitation-only for main applicants, with no priority tier for investors; the initial investor streams closed to new applications on 31 July 2024.
Read →26 Sep 2026
The EU cited Vanuatu's scheme failures in 2022; the UK cited abuse in Dominica and Vanuatu in 2023 and inherent risk in Saint Lucia in 2026, while Ireland's announcement cited alignment.
Read →25 Sep 2026
The Act sets a three-year permanent resident permit, at least fifteen days in Samoa each year and an investment held for at least five years, and all monetary amounts are Samoan Tala.
Read →25 Sep 2026
Investors are granted citizenship in a separate Part, as a class of persons the law adds to the others, and the provisions read here do not say whether the sentence-based ground reaches them.
Read →17 Sep 2026
Every programme page read uses Naoero, including the Spanish and French editions, while a 2026 regulation requires the citizenship certificate to read Republic of Nauru.
Read →13 Sep 2026
Ministers say build-to-rent will count towards a Growth investment from December 2026, but the immigration instructions did not mention it as at 13 September; the NZD $5m threshold holds, approved funds only.
Read →1 Sep 2026
When a statute commences, when a treaty enters into force, which temporal rule governs a filing and which text prevails are four separate questions. An instrument can settle one and leave the next open.
Read →30 Aug 2026
Four texts attach continuing duties to a New Zealand investor visa, citizenship in the Eastern Caribbean, a Maltese tax status and a Latvian residence permit. Their legal status is not the same.
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