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Ireland ends visa-free travel for Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Nicaragua from 15 June 2026
From 15 June 2026, citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Nicaragua will need a visa to enter Ireland, as…
Latvia Golden Visa: parliament drops two investment routes, adds a fund route, and the President returns the law
Latvia's parliament has passed an immigration law removing the real estate and bank deposit routes from the Golden Visa and adding a…
Egypt's property market in the first five months of 2026: entering a correction
Sales by Egypt's leading developers eased slightly in Q1 2026 as the property market entered a correction phase, amid falling interest rates…
Vietnam Golden Visa: the legal framework and the outlook for a golden visa programme
As of mid-2026, Vietnam still has no Golden Visa. The golden-visa model is held back by land-law barriers, the single-nationality principle and…
Lebanon Golden Visa: a plan to grant residence in exchange for US$500,000 of investment
Lebanon's parliamentary Finance Committee has passed a Golden Visa bill granting tax residence to investors of at least US$500,000 in a bank,…
California billionaire tax heads to the November ballot as Governor Newsom rejects compromise
A proposed one-off 5% wealth tax on roughly 200 California billionaires has qualified for the November 2026 ballot; Governor Newsom has rejected…
Canada suspends citizenship by descent certificates issued under Bill C-3
IRCC has suspended some citizenship-by-descent certificates issued under Bill C-3 and requested their return, over concerns about the source documentation.
ECCIRA established as five Eastern Caribbean CBI countries tighten biometrics and a 30-day presence rule from 2026
Five OECS countries have established ECCIRA, setting common CBI standards: mandatory biometrics, 30 days' physical presence within 5 years, and a minimum…
The Nauru CBI offer is closing: the cheapest citizenship by investment route runs only to 30 June 2026
Nauru's government is keeping the discounted US$90,000 rate for the ECRCP citizenship-by-investment programme until 30 June 2026, after which it reverts to…
Oman Golden Residency averages 5,500 applications a month since relaunch
Oman's Golden Residency programme has received an average of 5,500 applications a month in 2026, reaching around 56,000 since it was relaunched…
Saint Vincent plans to launch a citizenship by investment programme in 2026
Prime Minister Godwin Friday has said Saint Vincent will launch a citizenship-by-investment programme in 2026, insulated from political control and with tighter…
Uruguay considers scrapping witness hearings in the legal citizenship procedure
Uruguay's Senate is considering a bill to drop the mandatory witness requirement for legal citizenship applications in favour of documentary evidence, as…
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