Portugal's immigration authority AIMA was working through a backlog of outstanding court decisions in May 2026, slowing residence permit issuance for new applicants. The delays are landing on Americans mid-application at a moment when the U.S. population in Portugal has never been larger.
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 the exact number of US citizens living there is still unclear. The gap explains who the headline number misses.
US citizens in Australia received 1,232 permanent family visas in the 2024-25 financial year, down from 1,366 the year before and 1,671 in 2022-23, a two-year slide recorded in the Department of Home Affairs’ Migration Trends 2024-25 report.
A proposed Bahamas immigration change would authorize the minister to issue residence certificates to citizenship applicants he rejects, for a $500 fee that undercuts the cost of an annual Bahamian work permit. The provision, surfaced during a budget debate, has drawn the most scrutiny of any element in the broader proposal.
Canada removed a documentation exemption for digital nomads on May 26, requiring remote workers on visitor status to prove their income comes entirely from outside Canada. Border officers can now request that proof at entry and refuse admission when it is absent, per an IRCC program delivery update.
Americans filed 81 applications to Antigua citizenship by investment in the first half of 2024, the second-largest national group by birth, behind only China.
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.
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.
The Dominican Republic issued 2,491 residence permits to Americans in 2025, with temporary residence accounting for 64% of the total at 1,591 permits. Every other category trailed by a significant margin.
Mexico tightened its residence visa rules on May 16, with amendments to the General Guidelines for the Issuance of Visas published in the Official Gazette the previous evening. The changes fall hardest on foreigners employed by Mexican companies.
Turkey's address-based population register counts 9,621 U.S. citizens as registered residents and 30,100 U.S.-born residents, a gap that reflects decades of naturalization and dual nationality among Americans who have put down roots in the country.
