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A second passport usually adds travel freedom. But at some borders it does the opposite. Which rule you meet depends on which nationality you hold and which document you carry. IMI covers the restrictions that a passport swap cannot fix.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Spain issued 14,576 golden visas and received millions in foreign direct investment. Then, they shut the program down for good in 2025. Krista Victorio of Orience explains the two residency paths that survived and where capital previously destined for Spain is now going.This is a sponsored post by IMI Official Partner Orience.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Every second citizenship on Earth arrives through one of 10 legal paths, and 4 of them are narrowing. In this video, IMI covers all 10, which six were decided at your birth, and why the only path that costs money is the only one expanding.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Living abroad long enough can end your citizenship in 22 countries, and 9 of them cancel it automatically without notice. IMI covers how each rule works, the deadlines to put in your calendar, and the impact on several popular CBI programs.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

The right first passport can cut naturalization timelines from ten years to two, or even one, in 20 nations across Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. IMI maps every preferred-nationality fast track in force in 2026, plus the fine print that shuts out some citizenship by investment passports.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Each new citizenship in your portfolio comes with legal fine print that activates on its own: Expiry at 22, automatic cancellation, lifetime tax, or revocation years after approval. IMI covers the 11 rules of citizenship most people discover after the deadline to act has already passed.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Gulf venture funding fell 22% in the first half of 2026, yet the region's founders and business owners refuse to leave. Why? In this video, you'll learn about the billions in state capital anchoring them in place and the second-passport surge, up to 4x in one country, that reveals how the Gulf's wealthy are repositioning.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

The citizenships to which your child was born with rights has constraints. The 10 countries mentioned in this video require something of the parents and/or children in order to maintain their rights and continue holding the passport or get one in the first place.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

These six legal tools allow the state to stop you, your money, or both from crossing its borders. IMI covers all six, plus the one variable they all depend on and the one thing a second passport cannot fix.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Russia's parliament has approved 14 restrictions on convicted citizens abroad, covering frozen funds, annulled e-signatures, and passports that cannot be renewed. IMI covers what this means for Russians overseas and why this design could travel well beyond one country.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

IMI's Global Property Scoreboard scores 146 cities on their investment merits alone, and 7 golden visa favorites land in an order that inverts the marketing. Why? Greece Golden Visa-eligible Athens and Lisbon (which no longer has a Portugal Golden Visa-eligible real estate investment option) post the worst property fundamentals of the group.Read the full analysis of Kenya's forthcoming program here and Ethiopia's golden visa here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Ethiopia will demand $10 million for its new 10-year golden visa while Kenya revives a residency by investment plan with no price tag at all. IMI covers both programs, how they stack up against similar programs worldwide, and the catch that could sink both.Read the full analysis of Kenya's forthcoming program here and Ethiopia's golden visa here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Most passport rankings measure visa-free travel, but they say nothing about a far more valuable metric: Where your passport gives you the legal right to settle, work, and stay. In this video, we break down the difference between visa-free access and residency rights and the settlement blocs that let one passport unlock as many as 30 countries.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Your passport can be revoked, frozen at the border, or downgraded overnight, and holding only one stacks risk in a single place. Learn the seven ways a single citizenship can fail you in 2026.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Passport rankings measure visa-free travel, not who comes for you when you're detained, hospitalized, or trapped in a collapsing country. Learn which citizenships pull the most weight in a crisis, why one draws on 27 consular missions at once, and an oft-forgotten condition that leaves even the strongest passport powerless in times of need.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Every Gulf state operates a golden visa program, and the entry price ranges from $200,000 in one country to $16.3 million in another. Learn about all six GCC investor residency programs on cost, permanence, and presence requirements.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Building a global citizen family? The levers that decide your child's citizenship mostly close forever at 18. In this video, you'll learn all six ways your baby can become a passport collector, plus the obligations most marketing never mentions.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Few governments let you simply hand back your passport if you want to renounce your citizenship. In fact, one country will tax every asset you own on the way out. In this video, you'll learn the five ways nations handle renunciation.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Golden visas with routes to eventual citizenship can cost upwards of six figures, but these five routes to EU citizenship require no entry fee at all. And you might already qualify for one without knowing it. In this video, IMI covers all five.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

The price of a home abroad is the last simple number you will ever see, because owning one can tax you every year you hold it, again when you sell, and once more after you die. In this in-depth video, IMI covers the six ownership-based tax traps most buyers miss.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.DISCLAIMER: This video is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as immigration, legal, financial, or tax advice. Consult the professionals before considering any action.

Nine post-Soviet states now sell residency to foreign investors, and Belarus could soon become the first in the former USSR to sell citizenship outright. IMI covers all nine, from the EU passport routes in the Baltics to an underperforming program in Moscow to newer golden visa options in Central Asia.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

The European Commission has told all five Caribbean governments operating citizenship by investment programs that they must phase out their programs by June 2028 or lose visa-free access to the Schengen Area. IMI covers the demand, why one prime minister is refusing to comply, and the interim deadline in September.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

More than 120 countries automatically share your bank data through the Common Reporting Standard, but eight jurisdictions refuse to join. And each one offers a compelling way to get residency or citizenship.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.DISCLAIMER: This video is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as immigration, legal, financial, or tax advice. Consult the professionals before considering any action.

IMI Pro David Lincoln argues the region that investors once dismissed now offers the rarest asset in investment migration: Livability. In this video, we walk through his analysis of the top 7 investor visas from Central America to the Southern Cone.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Citizenship by merit allows investors to earn an alternative citizenship by bringing a business, jobs, or investment to a country, with full rights from day one and no language test or long wait. In this video filmed at IMI Connect Barcelona, IMI Pro Rafael Cintron of Wealthy Expat⁩ covers how citizenship by exception works and where to pursue it.Reach IMI Pro Rafael Cintron directly here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Hold two or more passports and one careless border crossing can flag you as an overstayer, cost you consular protection, or earn you an entry ban. IMI covers the document discipline that keeps your records clean, the countries that refuse to see your second passport, and which one to show at every border.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

More than 100 tax authorities worldwide now receive your bank balance, address, and financial transactions automatically. Moving your money offshore usually doesn't help. In this video, IMI covers what the Common Reporting Standard is, the one G7 country that never signed, and the legal move that the rich are using to avoid financial over-reporting.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.DISCLAIMER: This video is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as immigration, legal, financial, or tax advice. Consult the professionals before considering any action.

Savory & Partners founder and IMI Pro Jeremy Savory has invested across 11 countries more than 30 times in the last 23 years, and his strongest returns came from places most investors would never touch. In this video filmed at IMI Connect Barcelona, he covers why he offloaded his holdings in two jurisdictions, how he determines his next ones, and where he is putting his money next.Reach IMI Pro Jeremy Savory directly here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Dubai's reputation as a safe haven has fractured after the 2026 Iran war, and some of the world's wealthiest are moving themselves and their assets out of the Emirate. In this video, IMI covers which three safe tax havens could replace Dubai in 2027, what each costs, and the dark-horse country that might beat all three.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Ghana just wrote citizenship by investment into national law, but the entire plan fits in a single clause. IMI covers what the bill says, what happens now, and why Ghana's passport plans could still be a long way from anything you can buy.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

This video is sponsored content, produced in partnership with The Open World Residencies and Citizenship: France's €300,000 residency by investment route requires no minimum stay or language proficiency (until naturalization), yet most investors never hear it exists. IMI Pro Charlie Maggi covers the routes, costs, and benefits shaping how investors secure a second residency in Europe.Reach IMI Pro Charlie Maggi directly here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

What you've heard about Latin America may be outdated. In this video, IMI Pro David Lincoln covers the six Latin American residency and citizenship programs increasingly attracting Plan B investors from around the globe, from Paraguay's $150,000 investor pass to the Dominican Republic's six-month route to citizenship.Reach IMI Pro David Lincoln directly here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Want flexible international residency with no need to relocate? IMI Pro Rafael Cintron covers his top 5 golden visa residency programs that hand wealthy investors a second base with no physical presence required, one on every continent. See how Panama, Mauritius, the UAE, Thailand, and Greece grant residency through real estate, renewable energy, or a single donation.Reach IMI Pro Rafael Cintron directly here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

What lessons can you learn from the ultra-rich building global Plan Bs and an advisor who helps them? These portfolios hold up when borders close, banks freeze, and war breaks out. IMI Pro Jeremy Savory has guided 2,500 families over 15 years and explains exactly how this multi-citizenship, residency, and tax-residency strategy lets a family relocate at a moment's notice.Reach IMI Pro Jeremy Savory directly here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Portugal rewrote its citizenship rules overnight, stretching naturalization to as long as 10 years with no grandfathering for investors already in the program. IMI Pro Madalena Monteiro covers how she and 8 law firms are building a 1,000-investor case against the Portuguese state, and what it could mean for anyone holding (or who will hold) a Portuguese golden visa.Reach IMI Pro Madalena Monteiro directly here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

The world's top citizenship by investment program is flexible for investors with an open real estate market. But where to invest? In this video, IMI covers where $400,000 in Turkey real estate pays off across Istanbul.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

These 12 countries grant residency to foreign nationals willing to register a business and hire themselves, often with no investor capital required. IMI covers each program and the perfect investor fit.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Passport rankings measure visa-free travel. But in this video, IMI covers the ranking that measures where you can actually live – the 13 supranational settlement blocs ordered by citizenship speed.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Portugal's five-year passport path for Americans is gone, replaced by a 12-to-15-year wait and a 55,000-case AIMA backlog. In this video, you'll learn about eight alternatives for a US investor (Portugal's top golden visa market), measured against the two pillars that drew Americans to Portugal in the first place.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

After 11,000 millionaires fled the UK in 2024 following the abolition of the country's non-dom regime, Prime Minister Starmer's government is floating a £5 million invite-only investor visa with a three-year path to settlement. Learn how it's structured and the catch that could decide whether the plan ever launches.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Europe's draft is back. Germany made it illegal for males aged 17-45 to leave the country without military permission, Latvia restored conscription in 2024, and Russia raised its conscription age to 30. And global conflict is only increasing which begs the question – How can I avoid mandatory conscription? We cover the 12 countries on Earth that do not conscript their citizens, with the citizenship pathway for each.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Most high earners owe up to 50% of their income 1) because they live in a high-tax country and 2) because they can't afford to spend more than half the year (i.e. the 183-day tax residency rule) in a more tax-friendly jurisdiction. But you can have your cake and eat it too! In this video, you'll learn five jurisdictions that legally accept you as a tax resident with just 90 days or fewer of physical presence.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

If you're a HNW investor or entrepreneur, you've probably looked at relocating either your assets or yourself to one or more of these jurisdictions. In this video, we'll compare each of the world's top tax-friendly jurisdictions wealthy clients weigh in 2026. Each fits a completely different investor profile, and matching yours to the wrong one could cost millions.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Retirement does not have to cost you your life savings or pension. These 12 countries pair a dedicated visa program with a tax break for pensioners and retirees, from Malta's 15% headline rate down to the five jurisdictions that drop taxes from foreign income entirely.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Passport rankings have lost most of their meaning to an algorithmic border infrastructure screening 1.4 billion travelers before they ever board. IMI contributor Giselle Bru covers the three risk profiles already costing wealthy investors their mobility and the three pillars that rebuild it.Read Bru's full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

On March 31, El Salvador's Decree 531 cut the temporary residency presence requirement from 9 months to just 90 days a year – yet also tightened the rules for keeping Salvadoran citizenship once you have it. In this video, you'll learn what President Bukele changed, the three most popular routes into the country, and why one industry insider says President Bukele is running the UAE's playbook.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

In 2025, Saint Kitts & Nevis revoked 13 citizenships, and the investors lost both the passport and the investment. Why? In this video, you'll get the 23-item checklist that would have caught every red flag before a dollar was wired.Read the full list and analysis here. Access the CBI Agent Risk Checker, a suite of other powerful tools, and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Only four residency programs offer qualifying bank deposit options under $100,000 in 2026, but each one has a structural catch that decides whether it works as a Plan B for you. This video walks through all four programs with their deposit thresholds, the upgrade paths, and the asterisks the brochures leave out.Read the full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Citizenship by investment does not have to cost six figures. Three African countries now sell citizenship for as little as $90,000, making the continent the cheapest emerging market citizenship cluster in the world. In this video, you'll learn about all three options, what each passport unlocks, and a potential fourth program that could undercut them within months.Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

After 14 years of socialist rule and a collapsed currency, Bolivia may provide an investment-free path to a Mercosur passport with regulated USDT custody and zero foreign-source tax. IMI contributor Edwin Hudepol covers what’s changed under President Paz, what investor profile the country fits, and how the FATF grey-list and wealth-tax catches affect the country’s outlook.Read Edwin Hudepol's full analysis here.Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.