9,600 US Citizens Moved to Ireland, Nearly Doubling Previous Figures
About 9,600 US citizens moved to Ireland in the year ending April 2025. That’s nearly double the 4,900 recorded the year before, a 96% jump. It’s the highest level of U.S. arrivals since the CSO began compiling the figures nearly 40 years ago. For the first time in modern record, more Americans are moving to […]
180,000 Americans Emigrated in 2025, Largest Outflow in Decades
180,000 U.S. citizens left the country in 2025, the largest single-year outflow in decades. The figure comes from a Global Citizen Solutions briefing analyzing Pew Research Center data. In the first quarter of 2025 alone, 1,285 Americans formally expatriated, a 102% jump year-over-year. The count is imprecise by design: Washington stopped tracking permanent departures in […]
South Africa Skilled Worker Visa And Point System For Naturalization
South Africa closed public comments earlier this year on a draft White Paper introducing the South Africa Skilled Worker Visa, that would overhaul the country’s immigration, citizenship and refugee laws. The proposed immigartion changes would consolidate existing work authorizations into a single Skilled Worker Visa and introduce a points-based system for permanent residency. If enacted, […]
49% of Americans in Portugal Would Consider Renouncing US Citizenship
Americans in Portugal are increasingly open to severing formal ties with their home country. A survey conducted between March 17 and March 18, 2026, found that 49% of respondents would at least consider renouncing their U.S. citizenship once they obtain a Portuguese passport. The data suggests a shift in how Americans view the long term […]
Americans Moving to France Shift Toward Student Permits
Many Americans moving to France now enter through an education-heavy pipeline: 13,122 first residence permits to US citizens were issued in 2024, and education accounted for 7,182 of them. That is 54.7% of the American first-permit mix, up from 38.3% in 2015. The shift turns France from a broad lifestyle and work destination into one where universities, […]