Japan’s Permanent Residency Fee Could Jump to 200,000 Yen
Japan’s permanent residency fee could climb from ¥10,000 ($62) to around ¥200,000 ($1,240), a roughly twentyfold increase, under an immigration law the country’s parliament passed May 29. The figure isn’t fixed. Lawmakers raised the legal ceiling; the actual charge comes...
Argentina’s citizenship-by-investment program, authorized under Decree 524/2025, is entering its final implementation phase, with an executive director appointed in late April 2026 and a launch targeted for the second half of the year. It would be South America’s first golden...
Starting June 13, 2026, Canada’s immigration authority began suspending recently approved citizenship-by-descent certificates and ordering recipients to return them for re-examination. It’s a dramatic shift that threatens Americans who obtained this status to live abroad. The Canada citizenship by descent...
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Why Official Counts Miss Most Americans in Bahrain
The largest US-citizen group in Bahrain, military personnel and their families at the 5th Fleet’s home base, sits outside the host country’s published population data.
70,000 Americans in Japan Wait on Updated Foreign Property Restrictions
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, that’s a reprieve, not a resolution. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party announced plans in December 2025 to introduce legislation restricting real estate purchases by foreign nationals. A government expert panel
Americans Rank Second in Antigua Citizenship by Investment
Americans filed 81 applications to Antigua citizenship by investment in the first half of 2024, the second-largest national group by birth, behind only China.
Dominican Republic Residence Permits Issued to Americans Hit 2,491 in 2025
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, sketch how Americans actually enter the country. The count covers Dominican Republic residence permits issued in 2025, not the total number of Americans living there. Each grant sorts into a
Ghana Citizenship by Investment Gets a Legal Mandate First
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, the question is what a paid route changes. Ghana has courted American emigrants for seven years through ancestry, not money. The country paused and reset its diaspora citizenship program over
