27 Aug 2026
Latvia’s new investor route runs through a fund the law does not name
Latvia's new Immigration Law removes the €250,000 property and €280,000 bank residence routes, adds a €150,000 state fund route, and fixes no commencement date.
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Updates on migration, citizenship, tax and assets, written from legislation and official sources. Each article names the publishing authority and the date read.
24 Aug 2026
Antigua investor citizenship: not automatic for children born abroad
The Act grants citizenship by registration. On the 1981 constitutional text reviewed, citizenship passes to a child born abroad through two named categories, and registration is not one of them.
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23 Aug 2026
Who counts as a spouse: five investor-residence routes, five answers
The word is settled one layer down from the programme page: in a general immigration law, an administrative manual or a partnership statute. In two of five routes, no immigration text read names the clause.
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23 Aug 2026
Portugal: residence before citizenship is now seven or ten years
Organic Law 1/2026 rewrote Article 6 of the Nationality Law, in force from 19 May 2026. For a Vietnamese passport holder, legal residence required before naturalisation is now ten years, not five.
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22 Aug 2026
Citizenship or residence: what each investment route actually gives
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
The mechanism behind the residence card: what property buys now
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
Europe’s investor-residence map is shrinking, not spreading
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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21 Aug 2026
Tax residence is a count, and every country counts differently
A new residence card, a second passport or a long lease does not move a tax obligation. Three major authorities use three different tests, and a person can cross the line in two of them in the same year.
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20 Aug 2026
Due diligence, not money, is what decides a citizenship file
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
Minimum stay is the clause that decides what a permit is worth
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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