African Americans moving to Ghana have a new high-profile face. On Jan. 28, Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa announced his ministry had approved a Ghanaian passport for IShowSpeed, the American YouTuber whose “Speed Does Africa” tour had spanned 20 countries and drawn tens of millions of livestream viewers. Born Darren
The State Department has reduced the cost of US citizenship renunciation from $2,350 to $450. A final rule published in the Federal Register on March 13, 2026 makes the change effective approximately April 12, 2026. The fee returns to where it stood between 2010 and 2014, before a surge in
Mexican American dual citizenship is on the rise. More than 125,000 people obtained Mexican nationality through consulates in the United States in 2025, a 153% increase over 2024 and more than the combined total of the three preceding years, according to Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. The vast majority are
As De Beers restructures and diamond markets falter, a potential Botswana Citizenship by Investment program is making an audacious pivot; and U.S. investors are paying attention When Botswana and Arton Capital announced their citizenship-by-investment partnership at the UN General Assembly in September 2025, it might have seemed like just another
Black Americans moving to Ghana have reshaped Accra’s housing market, citizenship pipeline and coastal land politics over the past six years, and the friction between returnees and locals is now visible in court filings, rent rolls and citizenship statistics. About 1,500 Black Americans have obtained residency in Ghana since 2019,
As someone who works every day with Americans reclaiming Luxembourgish citizenship, the instinct is to bring context and calibration to this debate rather than alarm. Senator Bernie Moreno’s Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 is a serious and far‑reaching proposal, but it is one bill at an early stage in a
From Citizenship.EU Across the United States, an unmistakable shift is taking place. LGBTQ+ Americans are increasingly looking across the Atlantic—not only for travel or temporary escapes, but for long-term relocation and European Union citizenship. Whether through Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis), the Irish Foreign Births Register, German citizenship, Spanish
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