Americans in Canada Number 256,000 or 373,000 Depending on the Count
Japan’s government expert panel has postponed recommendations on foreign property purchase restrictions until fall 2026, delaying what could have been a midsummer decision on buying property in Japan as a foreigner. For the roughly 70,000 registered American residents in Japan,...
Dominican Republic residence permits issued to Americans reached 2,491 in 2025, and most went through one door. Temporary residence took 64% of the total, or 1,591 permits. Every other route trailed far behind. The figures, sorted by category and nationality,...
Ghana citizenship by investment now has a statutory mandate but no program behind it, an unusual sequence written into a bill Ghana’s Parliament passed April 2. For the thousands of Americans who have built lives in Accra under heritage-based pathways,...
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Portugal Residence Permit Delays Grow as American Applicants Queue at AIMA
Thousands of court cases are backing up Portugal’s immigration authority AIMA, and the resulting Portugal residence permit delays are landing on Americans mid-application. The agency was still working through thousands of outstanding court decisions in May 2026, slowing permit issuance for new residents. The squeeze comes at an awkward moment. Portugal’s American population has never been larger. The Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) counted 19,258 US citizens legally resident in Portugal in 2024, up 36.3% from 14,129 a year earlier, the agency’s annual migration report shows. That cohort sits inside a permit system that has spent two years in triage. The court docket driving the slowdown AIMA inherited roughly 400,000 pending files when it replaced the dissolved border agency SEF in October 2023. Applicants tired of waiting found a workaround: sue. Portuguese law lets courts order AIMA to issue a decision within a set deadline, and lawsuits naming
US Citizens in Czechia Reach 10,701 in 2025, Up 49% in 5 Years
The count of US citizens in Czechia hit 10,701 on Jan. 1, 2025, a 49% rise in five years, with Prague and a one-year trade-license route doing most of the pulling.
Americans Moving to Brazil Rank Among the Top Foreign Residence Cohorts
Americans moving to Brazil now sit among the country’s largest foreign residence cohorts, a slow climb back from the pandemic floor that the permit data only partly explains.
How Many Americans Live in Argentina
Argentina’s 2022 census counted about 14,000 US-born residents, but roughly twice as many people hold US citizenship there. The gap explains who the headline number misses.
US Citizens in Australia See Family Visas Fall for a 2nd Year
US-born arrivals to Australia held above 10,000 a year through the 2010s, then pandemic border closures cut them to 4,650. The 2024-25 count of 7,580 marks a partial, stalled recovery.
