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.
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.
Argentina is moving toward launching South America's first golden visa, with an executive director appointed in late April 2026 and a second-half launch date in view. The program, authorized under Decree 524/2025, would offer a direct route to an Argentine passport with no residency requirement attached.
The count of US citizens in Czechia hit 10,701 on Jan. 1, 2025, a 115% rise in five years, with Prague and a one-year trade-license route doing most of the pulling.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. passport holders reached 48% of the American population in 2024, up from 5% in 1990, per State Department figures cited in a January 2026 Congressional Research Service brief. The Bureau of Consular Affairs issued 27.3 million passports in fiscal 2025, a single-year record, bringing valid passports in circulation to more than 183 million.
U.S. asylum claims in Canada reached 634 in 2025, more than triple the 204 filed the year before and the highest annual total on record outside the first Trump administration, per Immigration and Refugee Board data. Another 858 U.S. claims were pending as of December 31.
