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Long-term residence and settlement routes: conditions, accepted forms of investment, physical-presence duties and timelines as published by the competent authorities.
9 Nov 2026
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.
Read →9 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.
Read →7 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.
Read →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.
Read →7 Nov 2026
UK law covers only advice given in the UK and Australia's Home Affairs reads its law as not reaching unregistered offshore advice; Malta and Dominica list licensed agents and EB-5 promoters must register.
Read →7 Nov 2026
A founder can bring a spouse and children on Singapore's EntrePass only after a spending, funding, exit or intellectual-property test; parents need S$200,000 of yearly spending and two local workers.
Read →7 Nov 2026
New CIES lists only Afghan, Cuban and North Korean nationals as barred. Applicants need HK$30 million net assets held six months and HK$30 million invested; a HK$30 million-plus home counts up to HK$10 million.
Read →6 Nov 2026
Canada stops at 22 and Greece at 21, while Portugal's statute names no age but an agency factsheet says 25.
Read →4 Nov 2026
Democrats are projected to hold both chambers from 3 January; extending regional-centre visas past September 2027 would require an Act of Congress, while the Gold Card rests on an executive order.
Read →4 Nov 2026
Greece's migration ministry counted 25,970 pending applications at the end of September, 49% of the March 2025 peak. Family members account for 19,008, and new filings have run close to 2025's level since May.
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