American citizens received 80,424 first EU residence permits in 2024, up 1.9% from 78,911 in 2023 and the highest annual total in Eurostat's series going back to 2013. The increase came as overall EU permit issuance declined, making Americans one of the few nationality groups to record year-over-year growth.
Republican National Committee lawsuits challenging overseas voting laws are active in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Virginia, and Colorado as of late June 2026, targeting state statutes that extend voting rights to certain Americans abroad ahead of the 2026 midterms. Legal challenges and practical barriers are both shaping overseas voter participation, though they operate on separate tracks.
US citizens in Iceland reached 1,049 in 2025, up 80% from 583 in 2016, while American long-term permits tripled to 247. What the small-base numbers show.
The Social Security Administration reported 711,778 OASDI beneficiaries living in foreign countries as of December 2024, including 463,480 retired workers, with total annual payments to overseas recipients reaching $8.39 billion. OASDI covers the retirement, survivor, and disability components of the Social Security program.
Americans in Guatemala number around 10,000 to 13,000 across UN, census and State Department counts. Here is why the figures diverge and what data is missing.
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.
A report published by PropertyWire on June 25 highlights a surge in Americans applying for Greek residency, with a 49% increase in the first half of 2025 alone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
