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The 1,500 includes admissions from the Start-up Visa and Self-employed Persons programmes, both of which take no new applications, and the budget mentions a startup pilot in one sentence that gives no amount.
Prime Minister Terrance Drew said he is "picking up" that having a citizenship-by-investment programme "can be one of the parameters to blacklist a country", but the item names no list, decision or deadline.
8 Nov 2026
Dickon Mitchell's party leads in 14 of 15 constituencies on the provisional results, but the 30-day stay a 2026 amendment would require of new citizens by investment has no start date.
7 Nov 2026
Before the 2027 vote, Argentina's investment citizenship rests on a decree that a successor could repeal and that Congress has never put to a vote.
6 Nov 2026
The United States and Canada leave parents to other routes; Greece sets no age or dependency test, Portugal asks for dependence, Malta for principal dependence and Dominica for an age above 65 and support.
9 Nov 2026
The Home Office response of 2 November would cut the 10-year default to 3 years for those earning at least £125,141 and to 5 from £50,271, but rules, guidance and an impact assessment are still to come.
7 Nov 2026
Comments close on 12 November; the draft would have visa, permit and extension applications not finally decided by 31 December 2026, with the fee paid by then, handled under the rules in force that day.
7 Nov 2026
Singapore and Vietnam issue theirs for treaty claims, and Decree 253/2026 bases proof of foreign residence on a certificate for a person with a regular home in Vietnam present under 183 days.
8 Nov 2026
The sum is 1.5 months of average insured monthly pay for each year before 2014 and 2 months from 2014, and the years paid out cannot count towards a later social insurance benefit.
7 Nov 2026
Tax residence can end when Form I-407 is filed, an order is final or a treaty tie-breaker applies; after 8 of the last 15 years, Form 8854 follows and any one of three tests can bring exit tax.
6 Nov 2026
Since 30 June 2026 the workation visa is no longer a pilot; applicants aged 18–34 filing alone outside the capital region need one times GNI per capita, and stays now run to three years.
9 Nov 2026
Since February 2026 a nomad must first obtain a national visa abroad, in Hanoi for Vietnamese; staying on needs a separate permit that Greece may grant.
9 Nov 2026
Hungary's digital nomad permit bars family reunification except for a child born there; holders need EUR 3,000 net every month and lose it after 90 days away.
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