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
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.
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 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.
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-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.
A proposed Bahamas permanent residency change would let the immigration minister hand a residence certificate to people he turns down for citizenship, in exchange for a $500 fee. That’s cheaper than an annual Bahamian work permit. It’s also the part drawing the most fire. The $500 mechanism tucked into a
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada changed the rules for digital nomads in Canada on May 26, removing a documentation exemption that had stood since 2023. The agency, known as IRCC, published a program delivery update requiring remote workers on visitor status to prove their income comes entirely from outside Canada.
Belize’s US-born population climbed to 3,574 in the 2010 census, then fell to 2,985 by 2022. The reversal, and the retiree program the count can’t see.
Dominican Republic residence permits issued to Americans reached 2,491 in 2025, and most went to one category. Temporary residence took 64% of the total, or 1,591 permits. Every other route trailed far behind. The figures, sorted by visa category and nationality, sketch how Americans actually enter the country. The figures
Mexico made its residence visa rules tougher May 16. The change lands hardest on foreigners hired by Mexican employers. Amendments to the General Guidelines for the Issuance of Visas took effect that day. The Interior and Foreign Affairs ministries had published them a day earlier, in the evening edition of
Americans in Turkey show up in two different counts that don’t match. About 9,621 hold US citizenship as registered residents. Roughly 30,100 are US-born. The gap is the story. Both numbers come from the Turkish Statistical Institute’s address-based population register. One counts current passport-holders. The other counts birthplace, regardless of
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