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Understand investment residence, programme closures and the difference between residence and citizenship.
New Zealand's Active Investor Plus Visa has Growth and Balanced categories with different investment commitments, permitted assets and time requirements.
Australia permanently closed the Business Innovation and Investment Program, known as BIIP, to new applications on 31 July 2024.
Chile's investor related temporary residence category is defined around qualifying business investment and specified personnel.
Colombia’s M partner or owner visa concerns participation in a qualifying business under the official requirements.
Colombia’s M investor visa includes qualifying foreign direct investment and property acquisition under specified conditions.
Costa Rica's embassy residence overview lists investors and relevant dependants among temporary resident categories.
A property marketed as a conversion needs legal and technical evidence connecting the building work with the residence category.
Renewal preparation should show the continuing investment, the applicant’s identity and the household’s permissions without relying only on the original purchase file.
A practical framework for checking location, eligible property category, permitted use and independent due diligence in Greece’s investor residence route.
An investor considering Uruguay may want several different things: permission to enter, a place to live, authority to work, a business investment, or a particular tax position.
Italy’s investor route has distinct approval, visa and residence stages. Learn how to prepare a coordinated file without treating any investment as automatically qualifying.
The Immigrant Investor Programme is closed to new applications. Earlier approved cases and the separate entrepreneur route need different treatment.
Ireland's Start-up Entrepreneur Programme, commonly called STEP, concerns innovative entrepreneurs establishing a business and residing in Ireland.
Renewal preparation should connect the original commitment with the continuing investment and the current residence record. Plan that evidence before making changes.
Understand the different questions raised by government bonds, company investment, innovative startups, and philanthropy.
Malaysia My Second Home, commonly called MM2H, has changed over time.
Read the current dependant categories and prepare a family evidence plan for Malta’s permanent residence programme.
Assess the housing obligation, transaction terms, ongoing costs, and evidence before choosing an MPRP property.
Permanent residence should not be confused with an employment licence, a tax concession or a guaranteed passport. A guide to evaluating the claims around MPRP.
A guide to separating the MPRP application, property commitment, family assessment and ongoing compliance from marketing claims about Maltese residence.
Immigration New Zealand announced changes to the Business Investor Work Visa on 6 July 2026.
A property proposed for Panama's Qualified Investor Program needs both an immigration review and a commercial review.
Panama's qualified investor program includes securities and term deposit options alongside real estate.
Panama's Ministry of Commerce and Industries describes the Qualified Investor Program as a route to permanent residence through qualifying investment.
Prepare separate relationship, identity and procedural records for family members joining a Portugal ARI application.
Questions to ask about a Portuguese fund’s legal eligibility, structure, documents, costs, and exit terms.
An investment residence renewal is easier to prepare when investment continuity, presence, identity and official correspondence are recorded as they happen.
Understand the difference between a qualifying investment, a residence permission and an eventual citizenship application before choosing Portugal’s ARI route.
Singapore's Global Investor Programme, administered by Contact Singapore within the Economic Development Board, offers a route to permanent residence for eligible global investors.
South Africa’s business visa should be approached as an immigration route connected to a real business proposal, not as a generic purchase of residence.
South Korea's D-8 framework covers specified corporate investment and related business profiles.
South Korea's Immigrant Investor Scheme for Public Business is a specific residence framework involving investment in designated public-business arrangements.
Spain closed its investor route to new applications. Understand why application dates and transitional rules matter more than old golden visa advertisements.
Thailand's Long-Term Resident visa programme is administered through the Board of Investment and serves defined groups of qualifying applicants.
New wealthy foreign national applications stopped on 17 April 2024. Existing renewals and active business routes are separate questions.
The E-2 treaty investor category is a US nonimmigrant route associated with qualifying treaty nationality and investment in an enterprise.
Turkey offers exceptional citizenship procedures connected to qualifying investment, but purchasing an asset is not itself a citizenship decision.
The UAE Golden Visa is a long-term residence programme covering qualifying investors and several talent-based categories.
The US EB-5 category connects qualifying investment and job creation with an immigrant visa process.