Americans in the Philippines get counted four different ways by four different agencies, and the numbers don’t agree. The Philippine Statistics Authority’s 2020 Census recorded 30,033 US-citizen household residents. The Bureau of Immigration’s 2026 Annual Report counted 11,519 Americans with active immigrant or non-immigrant visas. The US State Department estimates
The Curaçao pensionado scheme is now one of six explicit paths to permanent residence under the country’s new immigration framework, which took effect April 1 and replaced rules in place since 2019. Standard residence permits also stretched from one to three years. The six-week grace period for incomplete applications is
Austrian citizenship by descent grants reached 1,955 in the first quarter of 2026, Statistics Austria reported May 11, nearly all to overseas applicants using the country’s restitution provision for descendants of Nazi-persecution victims. Total naturalizations rose 21.2% year on year to 6,641, with the descent channel doing much of the
The Mauritius Golden Visa will require a $1 million investment within 12 months of arrival, Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam told parliament May 5. The Indian Ocean island plans to cap the program at 100 approvals per year. The Mauritius Golden Visa enters a global market for residence-by-investment where European routes
The South Korea Top-Tier Visa now covers science and technology professors and researchers, the Ministry of Justice announced March 3 as part of a 2030 immigration strategy aimed at countering the world’s lowest birth rate. Until this month, the program was limited to corporate employees in eight high-tech sectors including
Swedish citizenship for Americans dropped to 14 grants in 2024, down from 460 a decade earlier, according to Eurostat’s MIGR_ACQ series.The drop wasn’t gradual. The annual count held between 460 and 795 from 2014 through 2021, then fell to 35 in 2022, 2 in 2023, and 14 in 2024. Sweden
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,
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
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
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
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
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