Daniel Atz
Daniel Atz is a serial entrepreneur, filmmaker, writer and commentator focused on global mobility and identity. Known for his data-driven analysis and clear explanations of complex policies, he helps audiences understand how identity, ancestry, and geopolitics shape personal freedom. The first business he founded, LuxCitizenship, has helped over 3,000 Americans obtain EU dual citizenship through ancestry. He has been featured in the press in the US, Luxembourg, Germany, and Brazil.
Articles by Daniel Atz
Five CARICOM states operate citizenship-by-investment programs whose grants include free movement across the region. U.S. nationals are plausibly the largest single applicant group, yet they appear in neither set of records: not in destination-country resident tallies, not in U.S. emigration data.
Eurostat is the only destination-country statistical system that publishes harmonized, country-disaggregated migration data on U.S. nationals. The decade ending in 2025 reveals four overlapping American stories in Europe that pull in different directions.
Gulf Cooperation Council states track foreign nationals by nationality for visa management and security purposes but publish almost none of the resulting data. The U.S. resident population across the GCC, plausibly between 50,000 and 80,000 people, represents the clearest example of administrative capacity that does not translate into public disclosure.
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 Jason Watkins Jr. in Cincinnati, […]
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 entry in the crowded global […]
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, the Richmond Free Press reported […]