A recent survey of American Citizens Abroad (ACA) members found 57% support extending Medicare to cover medical services received outside the United States. Thirty-four percent backed full reimbursement, 23% backed partial. AudienceNet and NP Agency conducted the survey for ACA in October 2025 with 833 US citizens living overseas. It
Americans moving to Uruguay filed 616 residency applications in 2025, more than double the 303 filed in 2024 and the 298 filed in 2023, per figures from the Dirección Nacional de Migración (DNM) obtained by El País Uruguay. January 2026 added another 56. The historical stock of American residents in
Americans moving to Portugal received 4,345 first residence permits in 2024, up from 550 in 2015. That’s an eightfold rise in nine years, with a five-year compound annual growth rate of about 31%. The volume is small. The slope isn’t. Stock figures track the same trajectory. US citizens holding valid
Finland permanent residence got harder starting at the beginning of 2026. The Finnish Immigration Service began enforcing amendments to the Aliens Act that raise the basic residence requirement from four years to six, add a Finnish or Swedish language test and require two years of work history. President Alexander Stubb
Dual citizenship in Latin America has been the easiest second-passport option in the world for Americans. Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica and most of their neighbors all permit it without renunciation. The region accounts for the bulk of US-citizen naturalizations abroad each year, with more than 125,000 Mexican-American
Americans are part of a record wave of foreigners submitting Paraguay residency applications. The country closed 2025 with 47,687 applications, a 63% jump from the year before and the largest annual increase since the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (DNM) began publishing monthly application data in 2019. The agency granted 40,600
The US Croatia tax treaty is one step closer to taking effect after Washington and Zagreb signed a protocol on April 28, 2026, designed to resolve the Senate objections that have kept the 2022 agreement on hold. Americans in Croatia have been waiting on it for more than three years.
American residence permits in Mexico concentrated in three federal entities in 2024, with Mexico City, Jalisco and Baja California Sur accounting for 40% of national permit activity from January through October, according to the Instituto Nacional de Migración’s permit database. The top six entities together carried 63% of the 23,502
The Canada business immigration system is effectively closed as of May 2026. The Federal Entrepreneur Program shut down on January 1. The Federal Self-Employed Persons Program is paused indefinitely. The Start-Up Visa processes at “more than 10 years” with 46,200 applications trapped in the queue. And the Quebec Business Class,
Cyprus permanent residence through a €300,000 ($340,000) property or fund investment is still the fastest legal route into the EU for Americans willing to write a check. The permit is lifetime. Fast-track Regulation 6(2) processes in two to six months. The income test sits at €50,000 ($56,800) a year from
The Singapore Global Investor Programme approved 450 investors total from 2015 through 2025, attracting roughly S$930 million (US$732 million) in capital. That’s 45 approvals a year, against Singapore’s 33,000 to 35,000 annual permanent resident intake. For Americans, the S$10 million entry ticket isn’t the largest cost. Two structural problems are.
The Estonia immigration quota for 2026 caps permanent economic migration at 1,292 people, or 0.1% of the resident population. Americans aren’t counted. Under Section 115 of the Aliens Act, citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan are exempt from the cap, alongside European Union, European Economic Area
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